Aurora Season Begins

MagnetarJones writes "Northern autumn began today at 55 minutes past midnight EDT (Sept. 23rd at 0455 UT), which means 'aurora season' is officially underway. Scientists aren't certain of all the reasons why, but there are more geomagnetic storms during autumn than other times of year. Already this month three such storms have triggered auroras visible as far south as the Carolinas in the United States. Some were so bright they cast shadows!"

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Is there a resource page?

[ClioCJS]

For 'northern lights' sightings?

I never go outside. It would be nice if somethign would instant message me saying "Hey, look at the sky, it's cool right now".

Someone (not me) should set up a site that finds local sightings like that (northern lights, comets, meteor showers, whatever) and sends them out to other local people (ie use zipcode data to IM everyone in a 50 mile radius).

Surely there is a site like this already? GIMME URL.

A week or two back, in Vermont

[dpilot]

We had a spectacular aurora display, visible even with the street lights. Reds, greens, even some blue and yellow, with both fast and slow flickering. It was only between 9:00 and 9:30, so we told several neighbors, and were all standing in the (dead end) street watching.

I'm glad that especially the kids got to see it, since they'd never had the chance, before.