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nate_02
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Nov 8, 2004, 01:27 AM
 
It's my first time seeing them in person, pretty cool! I probably don't get the full affect here in Milwaukee with the city lights, but if you can take a look, I think they're still out there.
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Nov 8, 2004, 01:29 AM
 
Photos? Anyone photos?
     
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Nov 8, 2004, 01:32 AM
 
Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Photos? Anyone photos?
Northern lights, very tasty indeed.

     
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Nov 8, 2004, 01:34 AM
 
Originally posted by PacHead:
Northern lights, very tasty indeed.

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nate_02  (op)
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Nov 8, 2004, 01:36 AM
 
Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Photos? Anyone photos?
Sorry, my friend's digital camera is too cheap to pick them up, anyone else??
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Nov 8, 2004, 01:40 AM
 
Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Will the humor never end?
No, and to be honest, that's what I thought this thread was about.

But anyhow, here's one last pic.

     
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Nov 8, 2004, 01:57 AM
 
Wow, and now this thread has become even more silly. My mind is slowly frying as we speak.
     
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Nov 8, 2004, 01:59 AM
 
http://spaceweather.com/
There will be eleventy-billion pics there tomorrow.
(There are even a few now.)
     
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Nov 8, 2004, 02:04 AM
 
[QUOTE]Originally posted by AKcrab:
http://spaceweather.com/
There will be eleventy-billion pics there tomorrow.
(There are even a few now.)
[/QUOTE

Is that even a real number?
     
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Nov 8, 2004, 11:52 AM
 
Yeah, I saw them too yesterday around 7:30 in madison, WI. Beautiful green colors. Cool how do they move and change forms.
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Nov 8, 2004, 12:06 PM
 
Originally posted by AKcrab:
http://spaceweather.com/
There will be eleventy-billion pics there tomorrow.
(There are even a few now.)
The photos on there are beautiful! I only wish they were desktop size.
     
t6hawk
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Nov 8, 2004, 02:11 PM
 
If you guys want an incredible view of the northern lights, up here in Edmonton AB, if you go just east of the city away from the lights, most of the time the entire sky lights up. I've been trying to catch a photo of them but they keep changing and fading so fast my camera can't pick them up. Hell sometimes even in the middle of the city with all the lights, the northern lights sometimes glow bright white and are incredible. That usually happens during a major solar storm tho.
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Nov 8, 2004, 02:18 PM
 
Originally posted by cenutrio:
Yeah, I saw them too yesterday around 7:30 in madison, WI. Beautiful green colors. Cool how do they move and change forms.
I caught them too, but not until 10:30 or so- the weatherperson on the news mentioned 'em. They were mostly white, looking like a fog lit from a distance, as if from a car over a hill. A bit of red snuck in there too.

It's a pretty amazing sight when you see them for the first time.
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Nov 8, 2004, 02:22 PM
 
We had them too in Minneapolis. My kids were really impressed. I saw them at about 6:30, and the paper said they were still going at 9 p.m. or so.
     
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Nov 8, 2004, 05:17 PM
 
I saw them last night here in Upstate NY. around 3am. It's a rare treat for us.
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