Makes me angry. Clear here during the day and the damned cloud cover rolls in during the late afternoon. I should have planned for this and traveled west. Auroras are a much better reason to travel than a short-lived solar eclipse.
Here are a few amazing beautiful pictures of the Northern lights that a couple of my younger cousins took. I wanted to see the lights too, but it was past my bed time. I missed it last night but I am going to try and see it tonight since it is supposed to happen after sunset. However, I have been told that I will not be able to see the the northern lights tonight with the naked eye, but should be able to see them using my camera, using the slow exposure and night mode setting on the camera. We shall see.
Well wouldn't you know it we've got cloud cover it was sunny till about I think 1:00 now it looks like it'll be overcast so I won't get to see hbut I'm sure glad I got some to see some of the pictures of them
Now I am reading that all this talk about the solar flare producing the vibrant Northern Lights display might have actually happened because of something the government was testing with HAARP. We might have been seeing more of the northern lights anyway, just from the solar flares, but it looks like they picked that specific time to test out more. HAARP capabilities, too.
I hope you get to see them too, we got heavy fog roll in I know I woke up at midnight, would have been perfect I'm betting
That's awesome @Krystal Shay I hadn't seen this view of the lights, you're definitely in the running for best "catch"
That anomally from Antarctica may have been a holographic experiment too. They said they can be HUGE.
I doubt HAARP has much to do with this, as independent astronomers have observed the solar flares and CMEs which are very much more powerful than anything HAARP can generate. I don't know how much the government has to do with the research project any more. I am sure they have some input, but they gave the facility to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Spaceweather.com has an article on the historical nature of this event: On the south Pacific island of New Caledonia, no one expects to see auroras. Ever. Situated about halfway between Tonga and Australia, the cigar-shaped island is too close to the equator for Northern or Southern Lights. Yet on May 10, 2024, this happened: It was among the top 20 Great Storms of the past 500 years. If you look for this article on the Spaceweather website, enter May 17 2024 as the Archive Date.
Just to let you know, I and all my expensive high tech equipment made it through unscathed and I haven't seen a thing with rain (and trees)almost every nite.