OT: great northern lights here in NW Wa State tonight

[Wiz]

Best northern lights I've seen since I left Alaska back in 1986!!!

Showed my wife & 16 yo daughter who were both awake at the time, they really liked it too!!

 

[EULA]

I've got some kickass pictures, but I've not the software to transfer em

 

[SinfulWeeper]

...
move back, they are still here every night

 

[Spacehead]

If it's clear in you area tonight & tomorrow night might want to poke you head outside.

Big sunspot 696 unleashed an X-class solar flare on Sunday, Nov. 7th, and
probably hurled another coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. Solar
wind conditions are favorable for a geomagnetic storm now (late Nov. 7th)
and may become even more so when the CME arrives. Sky watchers: be alert
for auroras on Nov. 7th, 8th and 9th. The best time to look is usually
around local midnight.

One of our astro club members got a glimpse of it but got clouded over in Erie before he could get any pics. Another reported seeing it from Wisconsin where he's visiting family.

 

[GLeeM]

Last night they stretched from the northwest horizon to the southeast horizon here in NE Minnesota
Bright, shimmering, folding. Not much color though.

 

[Assimilator1]

Wiz ,you could of posted some pics for us instead of just taunting us heheh

 

[MDE]

I saw them driving back to Chicago from central Illinois Sunday night. Impressive stuff.

 

[Assimilator1]

Cool! ,but any pics???