warksgirl

Did anybody see the lights in the sky last night?

My husband noticed "rays" of light last night in the sky. It was a clear night and I was amazed at the show. There were no clouds, so we weren't sure what it was (we were getting excited at the prospect of a close encounter!).

This morning, my husband was watching the news and apparently they are the northern lights, or something like that, and are very rare to see this far south (we're in Chicagoland). Also, the news said that they should still be visible for a couple of more nights.

Has anybody else seen this? I thought is was amazing, but then I get excited easily.

doctor scrumpy

I thought the Northern Lights were in Blackpool ?

Jan Alaska

Heres a link for you .. it shows when you are most likely to see the northern lights. We had a great show over the weekend while we were in the UP of Michigan
http://sec.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html

jcapulet

I'm so envious! I've always wanted to see them. What color were they?

Deadmeat

Amsterdam too, I think you'll find.

Bob

Nice link, worth some karma that, but i'm dry.
Shame would have been nice to have noticed, but we had loads of cloud yesterday and it ain't grand out now or over the next few days...if only it snowed or did somin' rather than be gray and threaten to be poo *l*

Jan Alaska

mostly green ....but i have seen them every colour of the rainbow before, guess were just lucky to be in an area without any 'light pollution' so we get to see the stars and milky way and aurora quite often.

Celtic_Angel

Wow sounds awesome !! I've always wanted to see the Northern Lights i thought you had to be in the North Pole to see 'em though
guess Michigan is far enough then

Ikke

The weather report on BBC1 said yesterday that they are visibile from many parts of GB right now too

mikehope

Here is another link all about the aurora borealis (sorry had to use the astrological name)
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/

CaliforniaBride

Northern Light, Aurora Borealis, dawn of the north.

I'm a docent for my son's classroom, the curriculum doesn't make art classes compulsory so we have a project where five artists and techniques are chosen and delivered to the students by trained volunteers of which I am one.

Today's project, my first, was Northern lights. It was sooo much fun. The kids loved the mythology, the science and creating their own pictures of northern lights.

The pictures were amazing. At the workshop we attended the docents (around 350 of us) were so careful in creating our pictures. But the children today were so expressive, so confident, so unrestricted. It was fantastic to see.

I became a volunteer after seeing the first project my son brought home. I had so much fun today I wanted to share and this thread was the perfect opportunity.

(And the first sarky bugger to come along and tell me I need an EAd gets it! )

candy wy.

we got to see the northern light here is a picture.

sibsie

Awesome pic. I was holed up in the casino of Mohegan Sun all weekend so didn't see the light of day, let alone the light of night. I did win though!

jcapulet

That's gorgeous! Maybe some day in Canada I'll see the lights. I used to live in New Hampshire, but I never saw anything like that.

warksgirl

Wow! What a fantastic picture! The lights that we saw here were nothing compared to that!