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Posted by: mpeebles Posted on: Oct 14^th, 2020 at 5:32pm	Quote
Nice. I've only seen them three or four times when they were truly amazing, dancing around and moving directionally. I looked out on the 27th up at the land and didn't see much. I usually go to be way too early!

Posted by: DentonDoc Posted on: Sep 24^th, 2020 at 2:43am	Quote
pine_knot wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 11:20pm: Unfortunately, I'm usually in bed by sunset...early riser ya know....gotta get that worm.... Historically, I've been more of a "crack of noon" kind of guy. Soooooo, please feel free to take all of my worms that you want. dd

Posted by: pine_knot Posted on: Sep 24^th, 2020 at 12:47am	Quote
I think I'm being shamed.....

Posted by: Old Salt Posted on: Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 11:41pm	Quote
pine_knot wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 11:20pm: Unfortunately, I'm usually in bed by sunset...early riser ya know....gotta get that worm.... “I’m a man, I can change, if I have to, I guess”.

Posted by: pine_knot Posted on: Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 11:20pm	Quote
Unfortunately, I'm usually in bed by sunset...early riser ya know....gotta get that worm....

Posted by: db Posted on: Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 7:50pm	Quote
My first few trips were around when Mount St. Helens blew. So I'm hoping for a another nice sunset POD coming from PK soon.

Posted by: Spartan2 Posted on: Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 7:41pm	Quote
Old Salt wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2020 at 4:17pm: That’s a cool map, db. Very informative. One of the best ways to see the northern lights is to drink lots of tea, or something else, before bedtime. I have tried that many times, and still I am 75 years old and have NEVER seen the northern lights. Sigh. We did have a pretty nice sunset one of the nights we were up on the Gunflint recently.

Posted by: solotripper
Posted on: Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 7:21pm

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db wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 5:40pm:

Here's another of my all time NL favorites mostly because my wife was there. She still swears she saw colors that night and in her defense, she sees color much better than I do.

It may have taken, idk, maybe 15-30 minutes to make that spiral captured in one frame. It's a slice of time. It never actually looked like that in real life. It was cool watching it move and creating that spiral though.

The other I posted was maybe a minute exposure and it was that red and it was awesome.

Those UFO saucers often have colored running lights! Wink

Posted by: db
Posted on: Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 5:40pm

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Posted by: BillConner Posted on: Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 12:39am	Quote
50 years ago I was a Rotary International exchange student and spent the year in a small town in Sweden about 30 km from artic circle. Full sky northern lights almost every night for months. Amazing. Only have seen anything like it since twice - once on Disappointment Lake and once in finger lakes in NYS.

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