[Newsbot]

Title: Public to get up close view of northern lights
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-03-01 15:36:22
Canadian

[tritium]

Cool news article Hyack, I look forward to logging onto this website in the future.

http://www.astronomynorth.com

[Proculation]

It reminds me of my vacations when I was young in northern Quebec.
It was 15 years ago, 20-30 degrees for the week we were there. People said they have almost never seen that. We were in t shirt on a fishing island and the lights were so awesome. You have to see that at least once.

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I froze my fingers many a night stepping out for a leak and being awestruck by the light show.When it got too cold I went back in the tent and set the camera up on the window for night shots which take a long time.
I never got tired of seeing them.

[Proculation]

man ziggy that's awesome, where are you in the north ?

[Hyack]

ziggy ziggy:

I froze my fingers many a night stepping out for a leak and being awestruck by the light show.When it got too cold I went back in the tent and set the camera up on the window for night shots which take a long time.
I never got tired of seeing them.

It's a good thing you only froze your fingers....

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Proculation Proculation:

man ziggy that's awesome, where are you in the north ?

I was in an exploration camp about 60 miles south of the arctic circle northwest of Baker lake Nunavut.The one winter we decided to try and keep the camp running was an awesome light show every night and sometimes in the day because it's dark 24/7 at that time of year anyways.
We mostly got the blues and greens and sometime a tinge of pink.
The Innuit believe it's the gods,they have some strange traditions about the N. lights and are just as awestruck as us kabluna's(whiteys).

[ziggy]

Hyack Hyack:

ziggy ziggy:

I froze my fingers many a night stepping out for a leak and being awestruck by the light show.When it got too cold I went back in the tent and set the camera up on the window for night shots which take a long time.
I never got tired of seeing them.

It's a good thing you only froze your fingers....

That's why we had piss jugs.
The noobs just hung it out the door and let rip,untill they got a jug as there was a waiting list for them. Longer you were there,the bigger jug they gave you,I had the coveted 1 gallon canola oil jug with the huge lid on it.

[bootlegga]

This is a good site to monitor if you want to see the Northern Lights;

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

[Proculation]

ziggy ziggy:

Proculation Proculation:

man ziggy that's awesome, where are you in the north ?

I was in an exploration camp about 60 miles south of the arctic circle northwest of Baker lake Nunavut.The one winter we decided to try and keep the camp running was an awesome light show every night and sometimes in the day because it's dark 24/7 at that time of year anyways.
We mostly got the blues and greens and sometime a tinge of pink.
The Innuit believe it's the gods,they have some strange traditions about the N. lights and are just as awestruck as us kabluna's(whiteys).

To reply to the other thread: GET THE SOVIETS !!!!!

[ziggy]

Here's the site I used but it,s more for Yellowknife and whitehorse which were a few thousand miles west of where I was.I basically used it to see when the best nights were to stay up and watch as they never stopped but some nights were better than others.

http://www.auroraforecast.com/

[coaster_dot]

I have always wanted to see the northern lights but never had the chance to take take a trip way up north. I think the only time I saw them, or some other phenomenon, was about 4 years ago when you could see them from almost anywhere in the northern US.