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OldScout48

04/23/2012 06:36PM

I just got an e-mail indicating high Aurora activity tonight low in the sky as far south as Des Moines and Chicago. Overhead in Winnipeg and BWCA.

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast

Old Scout

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Savage Voyageur

04/23/2012 06:39PM

Too early for me. I hope they are active in June.

"So many lakes, so little time."

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Mustangt125

04/23/2012 08:40PM

Im in Des Moines I will look north and let you know if I see anything.

Also, any tips on timing or heighth? Anything? Ive never seen them before

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gutmon

04/23/2012 08:45PM

quote Mustangt125: "Im in Des Moines I will look north and let you know if I see anything.

Also, any tips on timing or heighth? Anything? Ive never seen them before"

Suggest getting out to a high spot away from the city lights- the darker the sky the better.

"The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so." Mark Twain

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arctic

04/23/2012 08:57PM

I'll be watching...

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bhouse46

04/23/2012 09:07PM

mustang, I am in DSM also and tried a direct email, but it got returned. If we are lucky they will likely appear as a glow on the horizon similar to city lights, but much wider and usually a pale green. Seldom see the curtains of light this far south. I would try the Saylorville dam. Timing is uncertain, they may last awhile or often less than an hour.

Spaceweather.com has links that you can get for your smartphone that will give alerts if they are in the area. I do not have a smart phone.

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gutmon

04/23/2012 09:54PM

Just stepped outside- nothing yet in North central MN.

"The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so." Mark Twain

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gutmon

04/23/2012 10:12PM

What a difference a few minutes can make- back outside and they are starting up real good. Can also hear frogs, loons and a barred owl.

"The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so." Mark Twain

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WhiteWolf

04/24/2012 12:22AM

quote bhouse46: "mustang, I am in DSM also and tried a direct email, but it got returned. If we are lucky they will likely appear as a glow on the horizon similar to city lights, but much wider and usually a pale green. Seldom see the curtains of light this far south. I would try the Saylorville dam. Timing is uncertain, they may last awhile or often less than an hour.

Spaceweather.com has links that you can get for your smartphone that will give alerts if they are in the area. I do not have a smart phone."

I'am in Waukee. Drove half way to Adel on gravel roads and saw a distant haze that flucuated covering the northern horizon. Barely worth the trip. Buddy got off work at the airport and drove to country and didn't see squat.

"What good fortune for governments that the people do not think." — Adolf Hitler

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InspiredXXplorer

04/24/2012 12:32AM

Spiritsofadventure and I just went on a drive to find them and we did! He didn't believe me, but there they were just like you said; looked like city lights but wider and a pale greenish/white. There were some chunks of clouds against it and it looked really neat! Thanks for letting us know they were there so we could go a huntin' :)

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." -Frank Lloyd Wright

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Banksiana

04/24/2012 03:28AM

I'm in the Arctic but even at midnight it is not dark enough to see them.

Did find this though Northern Lights over Superior

Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.

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arctic

04/24/2012 07:15AM

Update: I saw northern lights covering at least 2/3 of the sky last night, starting around 10:00p. They were pretty much a white to yellowish, featureless glow, bright enough to light up the ground where I live, but not spectacular at all. Maybe they were better after I went to bed.

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bhouse46

04/24/2012 07:59AM

I drove up to the mile long bridge at Saylorville and was able to enjoy a nice pale green band/glow that peaked around 11 but faded before midnight. Hardly worth the drive, but the stars were special and Jupiter was very bright.

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OldScout48

04/24/2012 08:26AM

Drove west of Minneapolis, watched the moon slowly drop and Jupiter was shinning bright. Didn't see any Northern Lights, a high cloud bank moved in from West.

Old Scout

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fitgers1

04/24/2012 11:40AM

Thanks for the video link Banks.

Here's Astro Bob's photo of them from the Lester River.

Lester River Lights

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson...and...“Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".

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BWPaddler

04/24/2012 02:14PM

OK, drat - going to spaceweather and try to get something that will tell my phone to tell me to go look!

Glad some of you scored!!

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. -Thoreau

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