Northern Lights 4/23

[intrepid27]

Anyone else catch the Northern Lights last night? Possible the best I've ever seen. I live in Marion and drove 10-12 miles North to get away from CR lights.
Lots of movement and at one point they stretched directly overhead. Pic is brighter then real life but mostly unedited.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Wish I had heard about it. I would have loved to have seen it

 

[wxman1]

When will the Sun get the memo to do this on a weekend?

 

[BCClone]

When will the Sun get the memo to do this on a weekend?

Isn’t Sunday the weekend?

 

[aauummm]

I was going to check the lights out but forgot about it and konked out about 10:30 PM.

 

[wxman1]

Isn’t Sunday the weekend?

I mean kind of but Sunday night mostly after 11PM-midnight not really IMO.

 

[Clonedogg]

Dang, We looked at 1040pm and I looked again at 430am we couldn't see them. We live out of town too.

 

[mj4cy]

Any chance they'll be around tonight?

 

[cowgirl836]

Lots of visibility in our area again last night. Went out and looked around 11:30 and it was definitely brighter to the north but too much light pollution. If I blocked it with my arm, I could see wavy parts so that was cool. Looked again around 1:30/2 and didn't see much.

 

[Marcelason78]

Anyone else catch the Northern Lights last night? Possible the best I've ever seen. I live in Marion and drove 10-12 miles North to get away from CR lights.
Lots of movement and at one point they stretched directly overhead. Pic is brighter then real life but mostly unedited.

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Very cool. What time was this?

 

[aauummm]

Any chance they'll be around tonight?

According to this, they could be visible tonight (Monday night the 24th):
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loc...illinois-indiana-and-28-other-states/3125239/

A cool site for the aurora forecast:
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast

 

[mark42]

I took these pictures last night in Northern Iowa with my "good camera" . My cell phone didn't do as well.

 

[isufbcurt]

Damn it I always miss this stuff. I missed the spacelink satelites a couple years ago too.

 

[Gunnerclone]

I took these pictures last night in Northern Iowa with my "good camera" . My cell phone didn't do as well.

How much pulsing and light waves were you seeing during the peak of the sub-storm? Maybe like around 11:15-11:50 central time?

 

[mark42]

How much pulsing and light waves were you seeing during the peak of the sub-storm? Maybe like around 11:15-11:50 central time?

The lights were dancing, strait overhead for almost an hour, @10:30 -11:30.
When the pulsing lights started the local coyotes were howling like crazy!! We went home at 11:45

 

[FDWxMan]

How much pulsing and light waves were you seeing during the peak of the sub-storm? Maybe like around 11:15-11:50 central time?

Tons of pulsing light waves visible to naked eye just after 11 outside Bondurant. Went directly overhead. It was nuts.

 

[Dr.bannedman]

gonna try and see it tonight in michigan

 

[intrepid27]

Very cool. What time was this?

I watched from about 10:45-11:45 . The key is to get away from light pollution. On the way home I stopped about 5 miles from CR and while I could still see them they were not nearly as bright.

 

[cowgirl836]

I took these pictures last night in Northern Iowa with my "good camera" . My cell phone didn't do as well.

these are amazing!

 

[CascadeClone]

Someone posted this forecast in the weather thread, it's for tonight and tomorrow night, as opposed to 30 minutes from now.

Aurora Forecast