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Old Aug 30, 2019 | 06:26 PM
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Default Northern Lights maybe visible for some of us.

This weekend.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/see-north...173700572.html
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Old Aug 30, 2019 | 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by windhund116
I'm too far south, in Loveland, Colorado but I'll be looking for sure! Thank you!
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Old Aug 31, 2019 | 04:26 AM
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Too many clouds!
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Old Aug 31, 2019 | 05:13 AM
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How to see northern lights
Look up.
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Old Aug 31, 2019 | 07:58 AM
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I am north of Michigan but further south than Wisconsin and the Dakotas, that would be cool to see, many Canadians have seen Northern lights but I have not in all of my years living in the banana belt of our country.
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Old Sep 1, 2019 | 09:22 AM
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I was 15 and staying with my grandmother at a camp she worked at in Saco Me.
It was nearing the end of the camp stay and I was hanging out on the beach with one of the girls I had met.
The bonfire was roaring on a cool night. Wandering away from the fire I saw the northern lights in an epic show.
In fact I didn't stumble back into the cabin until about 4 that morning, shortly before she had to get up for work as a cook.
Later that day someone returned my belt i had been wearing but took off to goof off on the trapeze bar.
really got the hairy eyebrow on that one.
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Old Sep 1, 2019 | 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by boltonblue
I was 15 and staying with my grandmother at a camp she worked at in Saco Me.
It was nearing the end of the camp stay and I was hanging out on the beach with one of the girls I had met.
The bonfire was roaring on a cool night. Wandering away from the fire I saw the northern lights in an epic show.
In fact I didn't stumble back into the cabin until about 4 that morning, shortly before she had to get up for work as a cook.
Later that day someone returned my belt i had been wearing but took off to goof off on the trapeze bar.
really got the hairy eyebrow on that one.
Great memory. I want to see the aurora borealis! I saw the full eclipse of the sun with my daughter and that was awesome.
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Old Sep 1, 2019 | 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by skunkworks
My attempt at capturing an early morning a panoramic of the Aurora Borealis on the plains outside of Devils Tower Wyoming. I believe this as taken in 2016.
WOW! How accurate are the colors, if you remember? I take photos of sunsets and the colors are way off. They usually come up with yellows that aren't there to my eye.
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Old Sep 1, 2019 | 11:08 AM
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Still photos don't accurately depict how they look.

We saw them routinely every summer when I was a kid camping on the shores of Lake Huron north of Alpena and one summer in the 1980s in Grayling/Gaylord, Michigan. I don't recall seeing them since and there's no hope here in Richmond.

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Old Sep 1, 2019 | 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Chuck S
Still photos don't accurately depict how they look.

We saw them routinely every summer when I was a kid camping on the shores of Lake Huron north of Alpena and one summer in the 1980s in Grayling/Gaylord, Michigan. I don't recall seeing them since and there's no hope here in Richmond.

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Photos of night skies are never what the eye sees. They look much better in photographs in my experience. What colors do you remember? So often the photos shows greens. I'm considering making a trip just to see them, in the future, and I wonder how it will compare to what I've seen in photos.
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