Anyone watching the aurora out there? The news says it's visible as far south as northern Texas.

It's vivid red, silver and the usual green and VERY active, lots of movement. Supposed to be visible again tonight but I don't know how far south.

For ONCE it's actually pretty clear so I get to watch. Usually we can tell if there is something to see in the sky here because it's overcast. Folks 20 miles from us can see the sky but not us. I wonder if I made somebody mad?

Frosty The Lucky.

One of my friends saw them last night. I really should have stepped outside to take a look.

On of our friends sent us pictures she took and they were clear as a bell and beautiful as far south as the NW corner of Arkansas in the Ozark mountains. I stepped out side but they were over by that time.

I can’t control the wind. All I can do is adjust my sails. ~Semper Paratus~ USCG 1964-1970

It was overcast at 2am when I got up for a "necessary task" and it was more solidly overcast though you could see light through it. Now it's even more solid, might even snow.

It's easy to find videos online though and I don't have to stand in the single digit cold. I'm getting too old to spend time in the cold I don't have to. It IS warming up with the overcast though, up to 13f now.

Frosty The Lucky.

 

I just saw them for the first time in northern Norway at the beginning of September.  We'd been talking about them the whole trip; even though it still wasn't getting completely dark, we deliberately sat up the last night to look for them.  When they appeared, my wife's friend said "I saw that last night when I got up to use the bathroom, but I didn't know it was the northern lights."

Funnily, earlier in the trip we went to an open house on a sail training vessel that happened to be in port.  When we went around a corner, so to speak, and I said "there its is," she said "Oh, I walked by that earlier but I didn't see any sails so I though it was abandoned."

Though it probably doesn't sound like it, she's a very intelligent and accomplished person.  I guess honest is the least of her virtues.

I was outside watching to see if they would show and no luck. However I did get to see a very large meteor burn in, largest I've ever seen, so the waiting was not for nothing.

I can’t control the wind. All I can do is adjust my sails. ~Semper Paratus~ USCG 1964-1970

Yeah, this is meteor shower month, Leonids and Taurids, named for the constellations they appear to come from. November is usually good sky watching for meteors and aurora and certain stars. I've heard either the Leonids or Taurids are going to be pretty active this year because earth will pass closer to the center of the stream. 

Frosty The Lucky.