Northern lights

[Tpmetal]

Been trying to see them in full for more than 30 years. Bucket list item finally checked off. Still wanna try and catch them in Alaska or Iceland though.

 

[billb]

Really nice
Thanks for posting

 

[Tesorodeoro]

I’m wondering what’s going on with those northern lights. Lived here my entire life and never saw the “northern lights” Now we have had spectacular shows several times in a single year. Does that reflect an increase in solar activity? For the last 2 weeks the lower horizon has been pink at night even the southern horizon.

Folks in Forida affected by this most recent hurricane reported an unusual pink sky.

 

[ArfieBoy]

Great colors. Thanks for sharing with us.

Tesorodeoro, solar activity (sunspots, etc.) runs in 11-year cycles from peak to peak. This year is this sun activity peak. The activity will start to die down over the next 5 1/2 year and the next peak in sunspots will be in another 11 years (2035).

 

[1637]

great pictures,i saw them from Barstow calif one time.the best pictures iv e seen were in Iceland with a volcano erupting in front of them.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Beautiful colors...

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Great colors. Thanks for sharing with us.

Tesorodeoro, solar activity (sunspots, etc.) runs in 11-year cycles from peak to peak. This year is this sun activity peak. The activity will start to die down over the next 5 1/2 year and the next peak in sunspots will be in another 11 years (2035).

I’ve been alive for 4-1/2 cycles. Folks never talked about it at all here. Now sure modern smart phones have these incredible TINY cameras, but there were plenty of professional photographers with 35 mm cameras that would jump at an opportunity to capture these pictures. Never happened here apparently in 50 years. Great timing for me I guess.
I have also spent an above average amount of time laying below the night sky.

 

[GirlWithWolf]

Gorgeous

 

[Surf_Pirate]

yeah we had them down here as far as NC.....

 

[ArfieBoy]

yeah we had them down here as far as NC.....

Wow! I have seen lots of them from here in northeastern Oregon, but South Carolina is pretty far south!

 

[ToddsPoint]

I’ve been alive for 4-1/2 cycles. Folks never talked about it at all here. Now sure modern smart phones have these incredible TINY cameras, but there were plenty of professional photographers with 35 mm cameras that would jump at an opportunity to capture these pictures. Never happened here apparently in 50 years. Great timing for me I guess.
I have also spent an above average amount of time laying below the night sky.

My dad was born in ‘29. Sometime in the 30s the northern lights appeared in central IL. My dad said the whole neighborhood was out in the street watching. He said there were old women wailing that this was the end of the world! The only thing unusual about them is that they don’t show up that often.

 

[Tpmetal]

My dad was born in ‘29. Sometime in the 30s the northern lights appeared in central IL. My dad said the whole neighborhood was out in the street watching. He said there were old women wailing that this was the end of the world! The only thing unusual about them is that they don’t show up that often.

I often wonder what the reaction was of people back in the day. I imagine some were quite terrified, or sure they had an experience with God and so on.

 

[smokeythecat]

I scarfed up an old, old film camera. Film will be done tomorrow pm. Only one place around here develops it anymore.

 

[rginn]

Good pics. They were visible here in the middle of Colorado but I didn't check them out this time. Growing up, I'd seen them a few times in Oklahoma, most usually a variable red glow, which prompted a lot of calls of people reporting a fire up north of town somewhere.