Hahaha it felt like it, but they were in fact visible through damn near the whole state last night.
So I Was Taking The Trash Out And….
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Also called the Northern Lights. What a great sighting. I grew up near Chicago, not quite far enough North.
Aboard ship, crossing the Pacific eastward (they'd flown me over to catch the ship in the Philippines) I always wanted to see Saint Elmo's Fire, which is some kind of atmospheric circumstance that makes the spars and lines on a ship glow with a pale aura, but I never saw that, and I had to wait a few years into civilian life to see whales, and I saw them in the Atlantic. Melville's novel Moby Dick has both whales and St. Elmo's Fire.
I've seen an eclipse or two, but never a total eclipse of the sun, which moves a line of shadow and darkness across the land and is often a pretty strong emotional experience for viewers.
Aboard ship, crossing the Pacific eastward (they'd flown me over to catch the ship in the Philippines) I always wanted to see Saint Elmo's Fire, which is some kind of atmospheric circumstance that makes the spars and lines on a ship glow with a pale aura, but I never saw that, and I had to wait a few years into civilian life to see whales, and I saw them in the Atlantic. Melville's novel Moby Dick has both whales and St. Elmo's Fire.
I've seen an eclipse or two, but never a total eclipse of the sun, which moves a line of shadow and darkness across the land and is often a pretty strong emotional experience for viewers.
Only saw the Northern Lights once (caribou hunting in Northern Quebec, over 20 years ago). Hope to see them again some day!
That IS a sight to behold! My favorite color is green, and that sure looks like an impressive show!
We just get a nice, shitty gray color here in Ohio..................
We just get a nice, shitty gray color here in Ohio..................
I live right on the border of Missouri and Kansas, and we never have had anything like that to look at. It is incredible.
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Or a moose!Beautiful! I thought you’d say “attacked by a bear”
That's amazing. To see something like that is on my bucket list.
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting.
Gorgeous aurora. Should continue tonight because of the sun's coronal mass ejection on Feb 24.
A sight to behold!
or someone else smoking a pipe.
That last one is by far the most rare
