Northern Lights going nuts tonight

Switzerland.

Are they in North?

Years ago I saw them just north of Chicago, there's a chance they might be visible this far south 🙂

They are so lucky! The Northern Lights are extraordinary! I saw them in Iceland a few times.

Cornwall.

Here's a link to shots taken all over Europe. Pretty cool

Even in London.

Would love to see

But if you're by and you have the time

Tell the Northern Lights to keep shining

Oh, lately it seems like they're drowning

So I went by 'cause I had the time

Told the Northern Lights to keep shining

They told me to tell you they're waving

So cool it's visible in cities.

Edinburgh.

It's supposed to be visible much farther south than usual in North America tonight.

I'm tempted to sleep now then get up at midnight or 1 and see if we have anything. I'm in New England and never see 'em.

This is awesome and I want to experience it

^ Do it, you won't regret it. The pictures never do it justice

Do it r12. I've seen it in Vermont, once decades ago, also several times in Quebec, Laurentians and Lanaudiere. Tonight is supposed to be a bright show.

The lights must be incredibly strong to be seen in cities.

For those who want to see them. definitely pursue them. They are pretty extraordinary. However, avoid the bus tours in Iceland. They all go to the same field, the buses are filled with drunk Europeans using their completely useless camera flash but which totally destroys people's night vision and it takes 20 minutes for it to come back. Go to a hotel or spa that dedicated to enabling people to see the night sky. Even without the lights. the night sky in Iceland is incredible and nothing like us city dwellers ever see,

This is the one thing I have always wanted to see and I am within the viewing area but AS USUAL it is clo udy and raining.

They come out of nowhere. You'll be looking up at the sky, see nothing but stars, then this huge, undulating green and white curtain starts falling from above out of nowhere above you, or this magnificent curtain starts dancing towards you in the distance.

Some people claim they can hear them. I cannot.

I'm going to a Deep Sky Park in Utah next week. It would be incredible to see them there, but I doubt it will happen.

What amazed me about them was the scale. They seem to go up into the sky forever, like huge rays of light hundreds and hundreds of miles high.

You'll never see them in NYC.

Sitting here like a hockey puck.

Sometimes they are not all that big, at first. We were coming home to the country house late one night and they were only visible in the distant sky, green, white, pink, off in a corner.

I took the boat out to the middle of the lake and it covered half the sky. The dog started trembling.

Technically, they do, r21.

My girlfriend saw them many years ago and said she could hear them. She said it sounded like buzzing static.

It's overcast and rainy in NYC , so no chance of seeing this phenomena. Beautiful Scotland got a prime window seat for this.

I've never heard anything but I believe people who say they do. The dog felt something.

It makes sense that some people can hear them, the lights are basically ionized atoms giving off electrons, like static electricity. I, however, do not even understand electricity.

Maybe r28. The visual spectacle is enough to get my attention. But I don't expect much being in the city tonight.

^^^ the visual spectacle is beyond words.

My uncle in Ireland posted this to the family Facebook chat

I got chills and shivers (in a good way) looking at all the pictures. I read they might be seen in N. California and got all excited, but it's up by the Oregon border.

[quote] I got chills

Are they multiplying?

I've only looked at pictures linked here, r33. By the time I finish with viewing more pictures later tonight, they will!

No, R33, but I suspect she's losing control.

Can see them in southern Michigan. Actually pics with phone bring out the colors more. Cuts through the haze, I guess.

[quote] I've only looked at pictures linked here

They're electrifying!

Shiiiiiiit, r31! That’s fucking gorgeous! Wow!

"Let's fly north, little bird... That's what he'd call sometimes..."

Please post if you can r36.

R40, none of these pics are from me, but here are some pics from SE Michigan viewers.

South Carolina

The red lights make me remember reading about the 1938 geomagnetic storm across Europe, “Hitler’s Omen.”

“As the electrification of Europe and North America was still in its infancy, the light storm could be seen brilliantly. The intensely bright arches of crimson light with shifting spectrum of green, blue-white, and red radiated from a brilliant auroral crown near the zenith instead of appearing as usual in parallel lines.”

Chicago, unfortunately not my picture

That's fake, R44.

Thanks guys

This from Magog, qc is nice.

Gog and Magog!

It’s absolutely gorgeous! Absolutely fabulous!

I saw them years ago when I lived in Edmonton. They were beautiful

R44 I'm in Chicago and I don't see shit. It's super overcast and drizzly tonight, and the sky just has the same city starless light pollution look that it does any other night. I even took a bunch of photos from my rooftop with my phone to see if anything showed up and I got bubkes. That has to be a photoshopped picture.

The number of visible stars in R44's picture is the biggest giveaway that it's fake. Like NYC, Chicago has far too much light pollution for anything but the brightest planets to be visible in the night sky.

^ Oh, honey, just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It was taken several hours ago and it's all over the internet

R53 All the photos I'm seeing online are from the suburbs (note how they all say "from the Chicago area"). Zero from the city proper.

^ You're a blind Russian bot, prove me wrong 🤨

Forget it if you're in any urban area. My sister who lives in the country is supposed to send me a few.

R55 Well, shit. Looks like my cover has been blown and my true identity as a Russian Chicago Aurora Borealis Denier exposed. I had a good run, but it couldn't last forever.

R4 I’d love to go to Iceland.

Central Wisconsin

@r57, Prove you're really from Chicago, take a selfie getting hit by an EL train. Then we'll believe you

Not seeing anything and I feel deprived

Cincinnati burbs here.

I went out last night around 10:30 pm to see if I could see anything. There were clouds, but partly clear. The sky was fucking PINK.

The clouds were pink and there were these small rippling flashes, faint but visible, every few minutes. It was crazy! PINK! The underside of the clouds looked like when there’s a fire. No sirens. It was weird yet neat.

Hopefully, it will clear up later. I’m going to be up near Oxford and it gets darker out there, so maybe I will be able to get a photo or two.

Giant sunspot. Preparing to fry your electronics.

I’m in DC for the weekend - hope we can see them here!

forgot to add: use your phone camera - the naked eye may not pick up the lights.

I had to work this morning so I only managed a few peeks but alas, didn’t see anything.

Cloudy and rainy over NYC.

[Quote] [R44] I'm in Chicago and I don't see shit.

Just go look at the sidewalk.

May have another chance tonight. Grab your cell phone.

^ I hope, it's nice and clear here tonight, maybe I'll get a chance to see them 🙂

Just heard it's gonna be a category 5 again tonight. Any chance seeing it from New York/New Jersey area?

Tonight was a bust. I went out into the country and still couldn’t see anything.

I am missing out and disappointed

SHITTY LIGHTS

CHANGING THE SHKIESH!

Where were you r17?

I’m so upset I missed them last night and probably won’t see them tonight here in the Seattle area.

Once again, I am being deprived of experiencing a cosmic event. And I am miserable out it.

I am miserable about it

Where were you r72?

r1 Those pink Matterhorn shots are gorgeous, holy shit. Imagine the pre-modern humans seeing something like that in places where aurora isn't a regular event and trying to make sense of it. The beauty, the majesty of it all.

R76, go to Alaska or Iceland. I am going to Utah tomorrow specifically to visit a Deep Sky Park. There are Deep Sky Parks in PA and NY if you live in the northeast. You probably won't see the northern lights, but you will see many stars, galaxies and maybe the Milky Way

I drove up to Oxford around midnight but didn’t see fuck all.

Talked to the neighbor and he said the best time is supposed to be from midnight -4am EDT. However, from the photos my friends posted and my experience last night, from 9-11pm is the best time.

The most I saw tonight was the pink hue in the sky and some white lines rippling by.

Weird and beautiful.

Of course, the stars are just beautiful out there in the rural areas, so that alone was worth the trip.

People love the pink when it's up in the sky but not when it's swishing down the street among them. I wonder why that is.

R72 I’m in the Southern United States

I feel like we were all sitting around waiting for The Great Pumpkin and I gotta rock.

My experience is same as R81. the night before I saw great lights at around 10:30. Last night at same time was only some pink, and there had been some news that the best viewing was delayed to after midnight. I didn't want to stay up that late.

Why is astronomy so full of sex?

Uranus

heavenly bodies

Milk Way

I love the sky.

My desire to experience a cosmic event continues to be thwarted.