The Town of Odyssey

There has been a historically intense solar storm hitting earth today which will continue through the weekend, bringing potential visibility of the northern lights to more locations than ever tonight into tomorrow morning - be sure to take a look if you're in range!

Aurora Viewline Forecast

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Posting the original NOAA notice below for the information, but today's activity has actually exceeded predictions and reached G5 force!

Craziness! I was hearing about this on the radio today. There was a suggestion to take pictures because the phone on your camera may capture more colours than you would see with just your eye or something like that - I didn't quite hear the whole thing, so your mileage may vary. If anyone gets good pictures, I'd love to see them!

Catspaw wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 10:28 pmThere was a suggestion to take pictures because the phone on your camera may capture more colours than you would see with just your eye

My friends around the country have been saying they found that to be true, so definitely try it. For me it was the opposite though actually. I could see them in person but they didn't show up on camera barely at all. Probably because they were pretty muted where I was - but it was still amazing! We've never been able to ever see them here!

bookworm wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 1:16 am

Catspaw wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 10:28 pmThere was a suggestion to take pictures because the phone on your camera may capture more colours than you would see with just your eye

My friends around the country have been saying they found that to be true, so definitely try it. For me it was the opposite though actually. I could see them in person but they didn't show up on camera barely at all. Probably because they were pretty muted where I was - but it was still amazing! We've never been able to ever see them here!

Good to hear that was working for some people! It's neat. I didn't see it in person. I've been enjoying lots of beautiful photos online!

A new G5 watch was issued for tomorrow so there may be more chances to see them!

We had clouds every single night. On the plus side, a sinkhole opened up a few miles away, so we had that to entertain us.

Is a sinkhole a great trade for northern lights? Sorry to hear that it was cloudy every night, Petrichor.