Comments on: Time Lapse Video of Northern Lights

By: shastacc

shastacc — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:23:11 +0000

Got to fly “through” them one night on a midnight flight from SFO to Heathrow. Pretty trippy.

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:01:39 +0000

They’re real alright.

That just means you’re in on it too.

By: JK Smith

JK Smith — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:01:33 +0000

They’re real alright. Living in Alaska you tend to see them all the time. On rare occasions I have seen extreme full spectrum displays that pretty much make your jaw drop. Some folks swear that you can hear a buzzing sound during the super duper shows – I saw & heard it once.

By: Kentucky Jim

Kentucky Jim — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:18:18 +0000

I saw them once when I was a boy in Louisville, Kentucky. Man came on t.v. and said “Don’t worry folks, it’s not WWIII, it’s the northern lights.” Pinks, reds and greens, as I recall.

But I think you are right…I think it’s all done by Martians paid by the C.I.A. to ride in on ‘em into our televisions. Better cover your t.v. set with aluminum foil tonight before you go to bed, Tom.

By: cbchandler, cb

cbchandler, cb — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:57:18 +0000

I saw the Northern Lights as a child back in New York State. Better than Lazar light shows as they are all for free. A wonder…beautiful and mystical..

By: MHH

MHH — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:27:59 +0000

I haven’t seen the northern lights, but I did see the southern lights when I was in the Antarctic almost nine years ago. Mostly greens and oranges. Viewed from the bow of an icebreaker in the middle of iceberg-choked ocean, they are simply staggering. The scale of things and the speed at which they shift and writhe is incomprehensible.

By: Simon Graham

Simon Graham — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:45:54 +0000

I’d always wanted to see them and since moving here to Finland I’ve been extremely fortunate to witness some truly amazing Northern light spectacles. Only last year my wife and I while guiding clients on a husky trek up in Northern Lapland bordering Norway when we stopped the dogs for an hour to watch them.They must have spanned some 600 km across the skyline. Blues,purples,pinks, chartreuse greens..I felt very privileged and was in total awe of the whole spectacle. The German clients we had said afterward that if the trek ended right there they would have been satisfied.

There’s a website available on the net that tells you where the best northern lights will appear for that day in the Northern hemisphere. Cant remember its name but we used it when clients wanted to spend the evening on the tundra looking for them. Will ask around and get back with the sites name.