Aurora

[Blue_In_AK]

The aurora display was kind of lazy and not very colorful, broken up somewhat by high clouds, out at Chena Hot Springs last Thursday morning, but still respectable. This was about 10 minutes until 4:00 a.m.

[NV Whino]

1. Gee, I dunno, I said wow when I saw it.

I like the warm/cool juxtaposition.

[Solly Mack]

2. Pretty!

[2naSalit]

3. I would love to get pictures of that.

We get then on occasion here but it's often at 3am or it's too cloudy. For some reason I have not been a get up and go out at 3am person this last year which, in the past, I used to do that regularly. Celestial and local earth oriented events are a "thing" for me, probably because my dad was a celestial navigator and when we were pretty young, got us into getting up to see the sky at night which was usually pretty cool.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Believe me, I've got problems with the 3:00 a.m. thing, too,

especially when we're at home. There have been so many nights when we've driven out of town and waited and waited, only to be shut out. I have an Aurora forecast app that tells the likelihood of seeing Aurora directly overhead at your exact GPS location. If it's above 50 or 60%, I'll go out to Pt. Woronzof and check it out (which is only about a mile away), but if it's 1:00 a.m. and I don't have a guarantee, I'm going to bed. .

But when we're out somewhere like Chena Hot Springs that's so far north, the likelihood of seeing the lights is much higher so it's worth checking out. What we did on this night was set up the camera for lights, stay up until midnight and then when we didn't see any, we set the alarm for 2:00 a.m. By that time, they were out and I was all ready.

[a la izquierda]

5. Incredibly jealous...

Stunningly gorgeous

[Mira]

6. I'm so awed.

Great work in a gorgeous place.