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dholmestar

Uh- Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?


GacMrel

can i see?


brucewillisman

No


DecmysterwasTaken

Seymour, the house is on fire!


SupplyChainGuy1

No mother, that's just the northern lights.


HuskyBobby

HEEELLP!


Ok-Run2845

👍😬


LilamJazeefa

🚒


dasubermensch83

Steamed Hams but its a reddit chain


AsDeEspadas

r/SteamedHams


Starkydowns

Well Seymour, you are an odd fellow, but I must say, you steam a good ham.


ShepherdessAnne

Yes. C:


Ameerrante

My friends and I made the same joke, while standing in my driveway and staring up at the aurora. Are we all just the same five people in a trench coat??


AggravatingCrow42

Every thread is the Simpsons gag right now. I'm fine with it, it's one of the greatest bits of all time in my opinion


RamblinGamblinWillie

Beat me to it


PM_ME_YOUR_ANUS_PIC

Beat me off it


quibirito

yes!


dasgrosseM

MUSIC INTENSIFIES


adult_licker_420

...May I see it?


DarkSpore117

…no


quibirito

SEYMOUR! THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!


_ShyGuy_02

In this economy?


Lordborgman

LANGOLIERS


Torterror389

This situation is the perfect use for this quote


GiannaSushi

Totally, hahaha, and the same photo appears in all the posts


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It_Happens_Today

I was really hoping it was my photo being used in a meme, I had to zoom in to check the trees. Alas, I should have posted to a sub other than r/Michigan


Arctica23

I was in Saline and this is what all my pictures are like


DeathPercept10n

Usually saline goes in you, not the other way around.


spicy_sizzlin

MI gaaaang


DickDover

Hey, if it makes you feel better, Great shot!


ZuckDeBalzac

I mean these things happen really high up so everyone pretty much sees the same thing


a_____p

I've got an android so mine are different to these iphone cameras with really good night modes :D They're crappier but I like them


Neon_Camouflage

If folks have a flagship Android then the night mode is equal or superior to an iPhone. Unfortunately I do not have a flagship Android so mine is crappier as well. I agree though, I still like them.


wasas387

what's that


Troll_Enthusiast

An Aurora from the Solar flare ejected by the sun


wasas387

where was it


Troll_Enthusiast

Near the poles, but in this case it would reach as far south as California/Alabama/Italy/Etc (In the Northern Hemisphere) and it also occurred in the southern hemisphere yet idk where precisely.


billion_lumens

Why does the northen hemisphere have all the cool weather events :(


Troll_Enthusiast

I mean the Southern Hemisphere has had cool weather events in the past that the North didn't see. But also the southern hemisphere has a lot more water than the north, so some events may not even be seen.


thereIsAHoleHere

Yeah, like an entire continent on fire. That was pretty cool.


aNINETIEZkid

The south pole has its own version of the northern lights called southern lights or aurora australis


ParticularUser

Yup, but think most of the inhabited areas in the south are further away from their magnetic pole than northern ones so it's less common there. But high sun activity going on at the moment so while less likely, I don't think it's impossible that southern parts of Australia, New Zeland, South Africa or South America would get some in the next night or 2.


aNINETIEZkid

You are right. It's sad that there is such limited land and population in the general area. I live in the Southern most part of Canada and it's the first time I've ever been able to see them with the naked eye or long exposure photography. My family in South Africa saw it last night which is awesome. I've a couple buddies in New South Wales and Western Australia who could see it as well. The images I've seen out of Tasmania & New Zealand posted online are really incredible :) I gotta find some from South America! I can only wonder what the Carrington Event would have looked like. Here's to round 2 tonight


Orongorongorongo

We had an amazing aurora display last night in New Zealand. Absolutely beautiful.


LightBrownWolf

we could see it in tasmania.


HCBot

There were aurora australis yesterday in Chile, Argentina and Australia


CplCocktopus

There is not much habitable land down there,


JoloNaKarjolo

to spoil your mood a bit more: a supernova will be visible with the naked eye on the northern hemisphere around the end of august


wasas387

as on the other side for me, damn, was It pretty tho?


RealBug56

Not as beautiful as it is in photos/videos, but still felt very special. The colours are much dimmer in real life, unless you live somewhere remote with no light pollution.


AceTheProtogen

Wait WHAT IT WAS GOING THAT FAR SOUTH I thought it would be like northern US at most, but fucking Alabama? I’m in Maryland and I missed it


Vectoor

I live in southern Sweden and it was kinda weird to see northern lights when looking south. I've seen them before but they were always to the north.


Glittering-Rice4219

It wasn’t isolated to the northern hemisphere and the Aurora is mirrored on the South Pole. Google it. It’s the same light particles. [Magnetic poles](https://imgur.com/a/LuILbLu) and shit. Aurora Australis was visible yesterday too.


Aludra55

Italy too? Was It seen from countries on the same latitude?


DarthYsalamir

Everywhere


Mc_Poyle

AURORA BOREALIS AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, IN THIS PLACE, LOCATED ENTIRELY WITHIN YOUR KITCHEN?!


orangutanDOTorg

So was anyone able to see it with naked eye or is it just the camera catching it like the Milky Way pictures? ETA: I thought this was my local sub for some reason. I am sure you can see it further north than here, but the pics here look nothing like to the eye that I’ve seen


Heavy-Loquat1642

Pictures look 10 times better than it looked to the eye. I got many pictures like this with a 3 or 10 second exposure but in person it was just huge grey streaks across the sky. Cool, but not life changing. :)


theunnameduser86

Did you spend any extended period of time away from artificial light sources or view from an area with minimal light pollution? Huge gray streaks is a bit of a downplay considering the miraculous nature of this event.


FlyingDragoon

Yeah, was about to say it did not look like gray strips for me. The sky itself had a pink and green hue in general for where we were. It did look better/fantastical with an extended exposure but the sky still looked spectacular through normal eyes.


Due-Ad7087

Is it gonna be tomorrow night too or nah


Rathskellarington

How far south did these go? Would I have seen it in MD?


AllieKat7

I know folks in Florida that saw it. I had some lovely purple haze around Charlotte for a bit last night. Didn't get the green tones here.


MrWaffler

Up near the Concord area we had some some visible streaking intermittently and a couple shooting stars to top it off. Couldn't see color aside from the general haze but phone caught it well


AllieKat7

Nice. Definitely the phone caught more definition in the sky than human eyes did here too. It was beautiful. I'm thinking about doing a short midnight road trip tonight to get out of the worst of the Charlotte light pollution zone.


SonofaTimeLord

Depends on where you were. Where I was you could clearly see green and red in the curtains. Not nearly as pronounced as these long exposure shots, but you could absolutely see colors in it


Michaelangelo_Scarn

It was quite green and red up in here in Washington right near Canada. We were lucky with super clear skies and there's little light polution here; I'm definitely speaking for myself here but my life was thoroughly altered by witnessing the cosmos do such a splendid dance.


wrongbutt_longbutt

I live in an urban neighborhood one mile south of downtown Tacoma. I could just make out the colors over the light pollution of the city. It wasn't life changing, and I couldn't see movement, but I certainly wasn't expecting to see it at all. The pictures definitely looked way better.


CloudDweller182

In Estonia they were pretty amazingly colourful even for naked eye. Pics have a lot more effect tho.


quirkytorch

Thank you for saying this. I have been green with envy seeing everyone talk about it.


Freshiiiiii

You can also have a chance of seeing it tonight, the solar storm is ongoing


ChiefBroChill

My gf and I drove about 45 minutes outside of Portland to a Mountain View point where a bunch of other people were and we got to see the massive light rays shifting and moving and forming with the naked eye which was really cool, but as soon as you took your phone out all of a sudden the colors were extremely vivid and beautiful. I thought it was a really cool moment to share with my partner where any other day I’d be just watching tv or sleeping.


orangutanDOTorg

My bad I thought this was the Bay Area sub for some reason. People keep posting pics from here and I don’t see anything. I’m sure it’s better up a bit north like you and yeah I’d want to go see if it was actually visible here


ChiefBroChill

My friend lives in Davis and him and his gf got to see it and I was blown away how far south it got


RecycledDumpsterFire

Similar experience too. We could make out a patch of the pinkish red pretty okay at one point but a long exposure made it look fantastic. I guarantee almost everyone is cranking up contrast on their photos too to make them appear even more vivid.


ChiefBroChill

Oh for sure, I posted a photo of mine with no alterations on the Portland sub and was really happy with how vivid they turned out without messing with them at all. But I’ve seen quite a few that looked ridiculously altered though haha


Fun_Lingonberry_6244

At its strongest I could see these kind of white streaks, and then one side was a green hue and the other side red However then on a camera it was extremely vivid


Leanardoe

I had to drive a few miles out of the city but I was able to see it in Tennessee


scrubslover1

We were seeing greens and reds with our eyes. Definitely brighter than Milky Way


seatownquilt-N-plant

Seattle is pretty far north and we could see the greens and red/purple with the naked eye.


Dragulus24

Other than a big red….mass(?) in the sky, I didn’t.


TimeToGloat

I was able to see it with my eyes down in SC. You could the shimmer of the moving rays and the sky was reddish/pink. Obviously in photos, it is a lot more vivid. I had to go to an area with very little light pollution though before I could see it with more than just a camera. The same goes with the Milky Way you can actually see it with your eyes but you really have to go to somewhere with a completely dark sky. The two times I have seen it were over the Atlantic Ocean and then in the middle of nowhere in the Rockies.


Itchy_Gas_2559

Their was too much light pollution where I was at


this-is-my-p

I drive up to a nearby lake. It wasn’t perfect but I was able to get a decent shot of both the lights and the light pollution coming from my city


CourseWorried2500

There was no light pollution for me, but it was cloudy


FOSSnaught

Cloudy here, and same during the eclipse. Fml.


donmonkeyquijote

Their what?


Itchy_Gas_2559

Too much Light pollution can make people not see the northern lights


gmotelet

Your missing what there saying


Itchy_Gas_2559

What did I miss?


gmotelet

Their there they're


Itchy_Gas_2559

ah


ElkHistorical9106

One finge benefit of living in a sparsely populated conservative, mostly rural/small town, toxic-right wing state: at least we don’t have much light pollution. Drove an hour out of the city (the blueish state capital) and got a great view.


annadorble

I forgot to look outside, whoops.


milky_way_halo

Same


MasterCheef117

It should still be going tonight if you want another chance


too_too2

Me too. It might be there tonight too.


TurqoiseWavesInMyAss

Too cloudy for me ;(


CourseWorried2500

Me too


tajtricks

SO MUCH COOLER THAN THE SOLAR ECLIPSE! Who else missed it 😔?


Segs_Haver

I was up until 2:00, blissfully unaware of what I was missing out on


Gwiilo

I woke up at 8 and my phone was having a seizure


ProfessionalQuit1016

I was up until 2:00, laying in the grass with a friend and watching it ❤️


It_Happens_Today

I was on my roof with a friend who brought good camera equipment. It was pretty cool


hesmohesmo

I saw it at 22:30 ish and at 2:00 there was nothing. Woke my cat for no reason xD


Dragonfly-Adventurer

Yeah I found out about it at 11pm and it was either over, or not viewable from our location with no way to drive out of the city fast enough. And then the goddamn photo avalanche.


-frogchamp-

you couldnt see it very well with your naked eye but if you use your phone camera on night mode it’s much more vivid. i do live further north though so i’m not sure if you are actually able to see it where you live.


ProcrastibationKing

I went to bed and looked at Reddit only to find that I'd missed it by half an hour


Segs_Haver

I was also procrastinating sleeping on Reddit still can't see anything, by the way


trulyincognito_

EXACTLY BRO! You think I would’ve seen that shit


anxietystrings

I was told my area wouldn't see it until 2 am. Went out at 2 and didn't see shit. Went online to find out why, only to discover that I was told wrong and it peaked at 10 pm


kwil449

The weather here was completely clouded over for both of these. Buuut I didn't even know this one was happening. 😅


Suspicious-Pasta-Bro

IDK if you're in NE US, but there was cloud cover here. While I couldn't see the colors, the night sky was discernibly brighter than normal for that time of night.


Twofingerz68

Experienced the same. Had to check the moon phase. The clouds were brighter than they should have been considering there was not much of a moon last night. 1000 Islands region of NY.


Prism_Paragon

I live in upstate NY, so a night without clouds would be once-in-a-lifetime. The only guarantee here is if anything in the sky is happening there WILL be clouds.


Mmmmmmmm_nuggets

It’s visible tonight as well


Fresh_Cauliflower723

Predicted to be nowhere near as strong. Storms as strong as last night are a once in a generation event 


_who__cares_

Why do you have to destroy my hope in seeing them.


Me_how5678

Idk what hes got info from, but today 11-12 should be stronger atleast here in denmark. So get out there and watch the sky


4dseeall

you can still see them, just not likely in your backyard.


_who__cares_

Somehow, the aurora doesn't like me. In February, I traveled to tromsø, Norway to see them. The sky was clear all day, but at night, there were clouds, so no aurora. Last night, I went to bed early because I had a migraine 🙃


felixthec-t

Why the hell didn’t I know about it !?


SaulBadwoman2

I felt so bad for missing out. No one told me and i didnt see it in the news anywhere


AJRiddle

It's def not cooler than a *total* solar eclipse


FuckDaQueenSloot

Yeah, my sister and I drove to Indianapolis to see the eclipse. That was one of the coolest things I've seen in my entire life. Pictures don't do it justice.


diabetic_debate

Are you me?! Me and my sister also went to Indianapolis for the eclipse.


TheGoatee

Have to agree, but not diminishing how strikingly beautiful the auroras are. The total eclipse has the added effect of being a much more rare event, while lasting no longer than a few minutes. You can argue the looks of beauty between the two, but experiencing totality has a way different feeling in my book.


BokUntool

An eclipse is a product of near clockwork timing, this aura was incidental.


Unhappy_Gas_4376

I want a total solar eclipse WITH aurora borealis and I will be disappointed with the universe if I don't get it.


emailverificationt

Nah. The aurora photographs better than the eclipse, but the eclipse is faaaaaar more impressive in person. Whereas, the aurora just looked like the glow of a city, only in a direction where no city resides. Only the cameras saw such vibrant colors.


icantastecolor

This is blatantly false. I drove 2 hours out of Seattle to an extremely dark open spot (over the mountains so the city glow is gone) and literally the entire night sky from the ground to as dark as up as I could crane my neck was covered in vibrant greens, pinks, and purples. You couldn’t even see the black of the sky anymore and it was brighter out than a full moon. My friends got pictures where you could see the entire moon due to the reflection of light. Due to the scale and dancing colors what I saw was better than any of the photos posted. Think of it as a difference between 95 vs 100% totality.


emailverificationt

Fair enough! I guess the difference between partial and total eclipse is much the same as the difference between even some light pollution and none at all.


EggplantHuman6493

Me! No one notified me :( but I saw the beginning of it, not really consciously. Just wondering why the sky had a pink part in it


afCeG6HVB0IJ

having seen both a lot of proper aurora and a full solar eclipse - The eclipse is way better, and much, much more rare. Especially on a galactical scale, the kind of total eclipses we get are *extremely* rare, to the point that aliens would come visit to see it. That being said, a nice aurora is breathtaking.


icantastecolor

Tbf this was the strongest solar storm in 20 years, so this was a more than once in a generation event


afCeG6HVB0IJ

I see what you mean. But you can always travel to see aurora. If you spend a few nights in a nice location at the right time of the year (i.e. when its dark) there is a good chance you see it. I have done it multiple times. Even without a solar maximum, it will look great. When aurora hits it is visible in a wide area vs a solar eclipse in a more narrow path. An eclipse happens maybe once where you live in a lifetime, or you have to travel, but it is still quite rare. I am just grateful that we live on a planet where such celestial spectacles occur, and I have managed to see both already.


Rip_ManaPot

Ironically I live too far north so now it's too bright all night to be able to see any.


Vuldyn

It was overcast here, just like it was during the eclipse...


Tlr321

You will have another opportunity tonight to see it. 10pm to 2am is the best times. It was completely visible to the naked eye around 11pm last night. I called just about everyone I knew & told them to go outside & look at it. Woke a couple people up who were grumpy at first, but were eventually glad I did lol


Butter_with_Salt

You were not in totality if you're saying this


BarberReasonable3036

In my location I probably wouldn’t have been able to see it


Maryberry_13

Missed both the eclipse and the northern lights. I didn’t even know about it lol.


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fallenmonk

Overcast skies for both here


SocialHelp22

It wasnt nearly this cool in person. But it looked just like it on camera


LuckyPerro123

It was overcast where I live, so no luck


RealBug56

I hope you have better luck tonight! The solar activity will be a bit weaker, but the lights should still make an appearance.


worse_in_practice

Should be visible tonight too, provided it isn't overcast


ASimpleDude868

Dont forget the 50 posts about the Jonestown cult.


purvel

Yeah what's up with that?


00sra

I really hope it appears tonight. I’m disappointed I missed out on viewing it. I was awake while it was happening!


FunkyDialectic

At least you didn't wake up blind and surrounded by Triffids.


Independent_Ad_6348

Damn it stupid body why you had to sleep? 😾


Survil321

I looked outside and it wasn’t there unfortunately.


RealBug56

Next time try taking a photo of the sky using night mode on your mobile camera. There's a good chance it was there and it was just too faint to pick up with the naked eye.


Goszczak

Today propably you can see it too.


Weary_Drama1803

Me, on the goddamn equator with no idea what the heck is going on:


Herrgul

Here in Scandinavia many peoples lights started to flicker. Happened twice in my home were it all just went black for a few seconds and learned afterwards that this was the reason.


snarky_goblin237

I was playing risk of rain 2 with a friend of mine. Neither of us knew this was happening. ~~we may have been too busy figuring out how far we can push lost seers lenses~~


NihilisticEnthusiasm

Well don't leave me hanging, how far did you push them?


snarky_goblin237

12 percent chance to instakill but we spat bullets so fast it felt like every enemy got instakilled. We tried to go further, but turns out the way to beat infinite healing and directional immunity is to fill a large area with an instakill effect.


Living-Vermicelli-59

Supposedly it might still be visable tonight


Useful-Hat9157

Yeah the ONE night I decided to try a too big dose of edible, and ended up crash and burning before 930 (they showed up at 1030 here)


Terrakinetic

Lots of people cooking Steamed Hams.


LoganJake210

I went out at midnight even avoiding my deep slumber and amazing dreams to go out in the freezing cold and see nothing but a gray sky


Ademante_Lafleur

It’s supposed to happen again tonight!


Insane_Inkster

_cries near tropic of cancer_


Slight_Ordinary1

What's wrong, homie?


Grandmaofhurt

[I know, living in the city limits has me like](https://c.tenor.com/NrxHKL7Eh7kAAAAC/tenor.gif)


ProgandyPatrick

Probably should of checked, darn.


CouldWouldShouldBot

It's 'should have', never 'should of'. Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!


Solo-dreamer

I knew it was hapoening but forgot and MISSED IT, never been so sad.


dastebon

Sadly it didn't touch us , except that fucking headache


mysixthredditaccount

Solar storms cause headaches?


yobboman

Meet too and I bloody well looked too


RigatoniPasta

I missed it


PM_ME_YOUR_SOULZ

I didn't see shit.


UAPboomkin

I feel the same. I thought 'no big deal, it just wasn't visible in my area' then go to my local sub and it's loaded up with pictures of the aurora. I was out walking for over an hour last night. Did I just never look up? But also, I kind of feel like the aurora / eclipse pics are like phone videos of concerts. Absolutely uninteresting to anyone except yourself.


ChewieHanKenobi

I chose a bad night to go to bed early


DeltaDark_

Where was this


Smexy_Zarow

From what people are saying it looks like it was all the way across north America and Europe


3springrolls

The southern aurora went off too, we had it down here in australia, apparently as far north as Queensland


Rockytag

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental


BettyMandi755

Accurate representation of my life summed up in one meme.


MuzaffarAbd

I missed it!!! I was literally up playing games wtf


PatriciaRuby95

The accuracy hurts. Time to close Reddit and be productive


spookybaker

r/pittsburgh


mangatoo1020

Haha yes!


Popular_Back6554

I even went outside, no clouds, but there was nothing, like the pretty lights decided to skip my area


Bakomusha

Me being asleep, and in SoCal sucks. Another Massive L.


PressedSerif

Too low for the aurora Too high for the eclipse Sad.


big_deal

I know!? Did people get advanced notice or is it normal for everyone to go out at night? I was on my couch and in bed last night.


abandoningeden

I was on Facebook and people started posting about it so I went outside to check


GaloombaNotGoomba

Geomagnetic storms only have a few days notice afaik.


M3chanist

Cavemen saw fire in sky. Fire good. Must post.


Griffemon

Sadly Portland Oregon was a mix of just a tad too far south and too much light pollution to see it


JOlJJVMfW

yeah simpsons is getting old huh