Northern Lights

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El and Bill

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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 6:13 am  
Tom asked about seeing the lights in the San Juan Islands. Yep, we have seen them there - on a dark middle of the night. Also at Lake Powell, Utah and along the Tennessee River.

Certainly not the brilliance of the north country, but beautiful all the same. We lived in a cabin on the shore of frozen Hudson Bay in January some years ago - brilliant. And, of course on winter trips to Alaska - twice we have had to look south for the aurora - north of the Brooks Range and again on the arctic shore of NW Canada.

Keep an eye to the north anywhere you are - they are not a winter treat - simply that it's dark earlier and folks see them - but, any time in the dark night they are possible.

I'm sure there's an Internet site to tell you when probabilities are highest (solar storms) -

They are one of the joys of anchoring put in dark coves while cruising.


http://aurorahunter.com/aurora-prediction.php
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We were supposed to be able to see the Northern Lights here last night according to the news, but the usual cloud cover apparently prevented that. We even set our alarm clock for midnight and got up for a while. We did get a nice electrical show though...
 
thanks for the link. looked it up yesterday and we had a 50 50 chance of seeing the lights, which fell to 0% when the cloud cover moved in. I did save the site for future use.
 
Jim and I stayed on the boat last night in a dark spot on Lake Pend Oreille with full view of the sky. We saw a weak performance with waves of pale green lights, around 11 pm, only lasted about 15 minutes. It was still beautiful. The milky way and lots of shooting stars were incredible. The moon didn't come up until 4 am, so the sky was magic.
Marti
 
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