Beautiful. Someday I'm going to travel and see them.

here, have a theme pic!
i am an aurora nut, in real life it's indescribably beautiful. i wish everyone could see it at least once.

I had one and only one chance at seeing it up in Alaska. The cutter I was on was heading south out of Kodiak. It was truly beautiful. I took my camera but none of the pictures turned out. People told me they wouldn't but I said if even one does it was worth it.

Hehe - I always get a kick out of this:

Checking the lights is often something I do before I go to bed many evenings. I like them more than fireworks. Sometimes they make noise. Often you can pick up their frequencies on a radio. It is really too bad that most humans live too close to the equator to see them!

I like the NOAA auroral activity website; it's kind of handy: http://sec.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html

Out of curiosity, where are you from, aurora nut? A decent northerly latitude, or do you have to journey to get some good light shows?

i'm in the twin cities - minnesota. i've seen it down here a few times now, but at least once i drove north on a 'good' night to try and see them again. the numbers on the noaa site were high enough for us but i couldn't get out from under the clouds that time.

I lived in Alaska for 2 1/2 years. I would move back there in a heartbeat if I could. The lights were absolutely fantastic.