Staying Up For The Aurora

[poliphilo]

Fred the weatheman said that thanks to the solar flares there was a fair chance of us seeing the aurora borealis last night. I've never (that I can remember) seen the aurora, so I stayed up on purpose just in case. There was no aurora- or if there was- it was happening on the far side of the light-polluted clouds. The aurora is green and the sky last night was blue and orange- which is just as nice, if you think about it- only rather more common.

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[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I saw a bit of the Northern Lights when I was in Greenland, though it was a rather sedate affair; a faint shimmer of white light that billowed across the night sky.

However, 12 years ago I saw it in Denmark, and it was bright and impressive and absolutely unforgettably astoundingly beautiful... Green ribbons curling across the sky, and I was 19 and at fresher's week away at the school of Architecture, so there was a full-blown party going on in a tent that Saturday night, but 250 newly admitted students of architecture turned off the music, left the beer taps and walked down to the beach to just stare at the spectacle. It takes quite a spectacle to manage that, as I'm sure you appreciate...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I envy you that experience.

I'm not sure if we have another chance at the aurora tonight, but I'll be sticking my head out the window just in case.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

It's been too cloudy to see it here for the past couple of night (where I've been in the summer house with optimal observation conditions), and tonight I'm in Copenhagen so haven't got a chance, even if it should reoccur. :-(

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If tonight's weather person is to be believed I'm a little too far south to see it. Helas!