Photo op: Northern lights tonight

[Goat Roper]

Not a guarantee, but a high probability.

AURORA ALERT: Sky watchers, be alert for auroras. A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth today at approximately 1400 UT, and the impact may cause strong geomagnetic storms. Stay tuned for updates.

The CME was hurled toward Earth on Dec. 13th by an X3-class explosion from sunspot 930

http://spaceweather.com/

http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=1775501&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.9.1

http://spaceweather.com/images2006/13dec06/eit_narrow.gif

[Goat Roper]

Guess this is all we get in Franklin, went a bit higher in the sky than this but was very faint. Then just like that it went away. Oh well, got some shots of Orion if nothing else.

Caught about four meteors left over from the Geminid shower that peaked last night as well, then the clouds rolled in.

http://www.webtrendsguy.com/images/aurora/aurora20061214a.jpg
http://www.webtrendsguy.com/images/aurora/aurora20061214b.jpg

[Greg@GLD]

We had some rather spectacular displays this evening up here in Ozaukee county....

[1quickgtp]

yes we did, HUGE light show. VERY VERY bright green dancing in the sky!

[Goat Roper]

Great show in Fond du Lac: http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061214/FON0101/61214128/1289/FONnews

[Greg@GLD]

It was very intense and much higher in the sky up here...

[Goat Roper]

It was very intense and much higher in the sky up here...

I am going out to the family farm in middle of nowhere Iowa tomorrow, hopefully they make a repeat performance.

[MIKESPACECAR]

:thumbsup thats a good pic of the lights saw them when i was in waukesha a little

[Goat Roper]

The lights as viewed from space that night. Not quite far enough south

http://spaceweather.com/aurora/images2006/14dec06f/dmsp1_strip.gif

[penji04]

Me and my gf where on the way to west bend and saw it. It was pretty cool.

[PureSound15]

It was pretty wicked over the water from my apartment in Green Bay. There were TONS of people on the beach trying to catch the reflection off of the ice.

[stowsea]

we got a pretty good view of them down here