Light show to the north

[mader656]

[mader656]

Not bad for phone picks

[jass1660]

Caught glimpses of them in Northern Illinois. 

[1256pickett]

1 hour ago, mader656 said:

Not bad for phone picks

Id say pretty good pics. 

[hardtail]

Been a good week for Northern lights, last night they were directly over me so not as impressive here

[Pete1468]

I think it's a reflection off of all MTO's money in Pennsylvania.   Maybe, just a little of sledgehammer's money.

I haven't seen the northern lights around here since I was a kid.  Dad and I were feeding cattle at night and I was riding on the fender oof the 686 and they lit up the sky.

[Diesel Doctor]

Those northern lights are beautiful!

We had a good day here in South Dakota yesterday and hope to have another today.

No rain, no snow and no crummy roads.

We may be able to get to the South Dakota Chapter #21 meeting tomorrow in Mitchell and Cabel's.

We can hope?

 

[Mike H]

caught them here in the Keweenaw at 2300 hrs last night

the leading edge was over us

awesome show, could not see the action at ground level because of the terrain

 but still neat to see.

Mike

[from H to 80]

They are on my list of things to see,i have along list.

[bob_carr]

Last night around 10pm near our place close to Tapiola, Michigan.

 

[jimw]

In nd

[cobfly]

That ain't the Northern lights Gris. That's the light over the sewage treatment plant!😁

[Loadstar]

I hear they were good in Sask. too and have seen a few pictures. They always look impressive in photos but in real life I hardly even notice them. Just a bit of extra light in the Northern skies. No colour at all. 

[poor farmer/logger]

Was up at about 4:30 yesterday morning and took a bunch of pics then went back out last night at about 9:00. Was a pretty good show, they were moving around a lot. Not the bright green that I like to watch more but still nice to see. 

[midnightman]

They were good here in Manitoba last night, but didn’t last long

[Cattech]

Central MN, About 1 am was one of the better shows I've seen here, but my pics didn't do them justice and I can see a little farther north you guys got a real show.... Doesn't help that I have the city lights of STC 10 miles away.

But was impressive anyhow. Once my eyes got used to it, I could drive without headlights on what should have been a really dark moonless night.

 

[mader656]

Wife took this inside the house.

[New Englander]

Beautiful pictures! I've gotten to see them a lot on night crossings to Europe and I've always been fascinated with them.

Back before datalink communications we were dependent upon HF radio and sadly the better the Aurora performance the worse communications were. We need to make a position report every 10 degrees of longitude and sometimes it was extremely frustrating.

One night, and it's happened only once in my career, we were IN a completely red aurora. There were no HF communications but ship to ship on VHF was fine.There were lots of Rod Sterling comments and questions if anyone had a good frequency for Gander or Shanwick, but no one did. Some BA pilot was able to explain why it was totally red but I've long forgotten. At thirty west I finally picked up our then new sat phone and called Gander who confirmed no communications and that they had doubled the in-trail distance of the planes in the North Atlantic tracks.

It was pretty wild to be inside of what amounted to a red cloud. It was extensive as all the planes on the X Y Z tracks were effected.

Now we have automated position reports and HF is used to get a SECAL (select calling, the ATC radio operator generates a sequence of tones that are unique to your plane and it alerts you to answer the radio without maintaining a listening watch) check and that's all. Plane tells the controlling agencies where it is and what it's doing.

Edited March 26 by New Englander
Longitude, not latitude

[poor farmer/logger]

32 minutes ago, New Englander said:

Beautiful pictures! I've gotten to see them a lot on night crossings to Europe and I've always been fascinated with them.

Back before datalink communications we were dependent upon HF radio and sadly the better the Aurora performance the worse communications were. We need to make a position report every 10 degrees of latitude and sometimes it was extremely frustrating.

One night, and it's happened only once in my career, we were IN a completely red aurora. There were no HF communications but ship to ship on VHF was fine.There were lots of Rod Sterling comments and questions if anyone had a good frequency for Gander or Shanwick, but no one did. Some BA pilot was able to explain why it was totally red but I've long forgotten. At thirty west I finally picked up our then new sat phone and called Gander who confirmed no communications and that they had doubled the in-trail distance of the planes in the North Atlantic tracks.

It was pretty wild to be inside of what amounted to a red cloud. It was extensive as all the planes on the X Y Z tracks were effected.

Now we have automated position reports and HF is used to get a SECAL (select calling, the ATC radio operator generates a sequence of tones that are unique to your plane and it alerts you to answer the radio without maintaining a listening watch) check and that's all. Plane tells the controlling agencies where it is and what it's doing.

Was thinking about you last night and wondering what kind of views you’d had over the years flying over the more northern routes. Can’t say I’ve ever seen them completely red. Maybe a red hue but not across the whole sky that’s for sure.

[hardtail]

12 hours ago, bob_carr said:

Last night around 10pm near our place close to Tapiola, Michigan.

 

2001 or 02 there was a night where they were red, this looks outstanding