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Last night we went seeking the wonders of the world. And we found them.

I had read on Twitter early in the evening that a “geomagnetic storm” was going on and that there would likely be amazing auroras to be seen, but corwin and I both had to work until 9pm and I didn’t even think of going hunting for it. But after we’d finished dinner, around 11 o’clock at night, I saw a photo on Twitter taken from the bay in Salem, Massachusetts that looked spectacular. Sure it was a long exposure photo, but Salem does not exactly have dark sky conditions and is very far south of where one normally thinks of seeing auroras.

I showed it to corwin.

“Want to go?” he asked.

“I’ll put on pants,” I replied.

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Date: 2015-06-24 08:53 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kabal42
Wow, just wow :) Despite living in Scandinavia I have never seen Northern Lights. Denmark is just too far south for it to reach us other than on very rare occasions, and I have not managed to be in a good spot with no clouds for any of those.

Date: 2015-06-29 07:24 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ceciliatan
Yeah, it has to be at K=9 for the aurora to be visible this far south, and even with us driving 2 hours north there was no guarantee.

We're taking a cruise to Alaska in August. I hope we'll get lucky and have some big magnetic storms then, too!

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