It should be a good night tonight and tomorrow night to see the northern lights.

To me, if you have to use a camera to see the Northern Lights, you aren't really seeing them.

Keith

Better than just seeing pics online!! Thanks for posting MJM I'll be watchin'

KeithC It looks like you can leave your camera home.

Very nice.

I hope so. I always look and have never seen them. It always irritates me when relatively local people I know talk about how wonderful the Northern Lights are and post awesome pictures, when we've watched for them, with no luck. Everytime I have asked they couldn't actually see them, without the cameras, except for a little light on the horizon.

I would really like to see an awesome display of the Northern Lights before I die.

Keith

What do they mean by with a camera? Like, a camera with a zoom lens or??

People set their cameras to a longer exposure time. Even some better cell phone cameras can do that now.

Keith

Your iPhone on normal exposure will capture northern lights that are not visible to the naked eye.

But not well in Southern states, where you need a longer exposure to get a stronger image.

Keith

I took pictures with out knowing what I was going to see in the picture. It wasn't of the norther lights though. Lay down and stick your arm as far as you can reach down the hole and take a picture. Pull you arm out and look to see how you did.

That's a good picture. I would like to eat puffin.

Keith

Wow them's is purdy

Was that tonight already hobbie???

Some people can see that happening with the naked eye. Some can’t…but the iPhone always enhances it.

Yes.

geeezz I guess I better go see if I can find them.

It’s to the Northwest of me.

They're going on here right now, but not very bright at the moment.

Just came inside - a pretty nice display going on right now.

That's crazy cool arrow

I would guess if you put enough tarter sauce on them they taste like fish.

They are going here, to the south.

You can see them here tonight with the naked eye. Even the red was visible earlier with just your eye, which is not normally the case for us. Colors are much more vivid with the phone camera though and I like it that way....... if you don't you can just go stuff it! LOL

At my house right now, central Mo.

can see it better with naked eye. needed to edit it a little to be able to see on camera

I've seen a few Icelandic cooking shows where people cook and eat puffins. They looked good and people seemed to enjoy them.

I've seen some Irish shows where old people talk fondly about catching and eating puffins too. Puffins were a major food source in much of North West Europe.

Keith

Can see them here with naked eye. Watched them for about 45 minutes. They were constantly changing. Pretty impressive for central ks

My old Samsung would make them better but the one i have now sucks. IPhone definitely makes them a ton brighter

my phone just shows black lol. Had to use a good Canon camera

My wife and I drove up north a couple miles away from the yard light. Here are some pictures she took both at the house and up north.
Looking SW

Looking west

Looking NW

Looking north

They were to the east too. You could turn in a circle and see them all the way. A never ending show. Get out and take a look.

South central Illinois

The view from northern nevada thru the phone camera.

I like the green some of you have in your pics... I could not see it. They said you couldn't see anything here with the naked eye but I COULD see just a red tinge in the sky... barely perceptible though. Here is a pic from my Galaxy, the red at the bottom is a reflection in the lake.

Did you use manual settings on your phone? If so, care to share what you used?

Took the girls out to the desert behind the house to watch the lights tonight.

God is great

I just put it on the night setting, Galaxy phone

Ps there is a big mountain directly north of me that blocks a bunxh of my ciew. Love the reflection yote.

I just stole the picture from my neighbor lady, who took it tonight, off facebook. lol

Same location over the course of maybe a minute. It was an early show. The really glorious ones occur in January/February.

Gorgeous pictures mad_mike! Can’t compete with what you get up there.

Glad you all are getting a show down there. Clouds have rolled in. Buh by sky….

And just like that, someone turned the lights off.

When I stepped out to the bathroom this morning…I was greeted by the show

Gods handy work for sure.
The description of Gods throne in scripture is of Emerald, Amber, and fire type color's.

I live in the woods we could only see a pink hue above the trees, but the neighbor sent this, may drive to his house tonight and look from his yard.

They are saying they will be out stronger tonight then last night.

Beautiful heaven hugs.

I had about 10mn of this directly overhead. Because they were 4-5 sec exposures the waves of moving light aren’t visible. By the time I tried to take video they weren’t nearly as brilliant. Not phone camera expert so I didn’t realize they first dozen pics were long exposures and I messed them up moving phone while still exposing. Pics near horizon were S never seen before here barely over N horizon. Cloud cover broke here just in time.

Pretty vivid displays especially for that far south.

Most of you may not be where it is completely quiet but if you are.........it is sometimes possible to hear a crackling noise created by the aurora. It is faint but definite

Now, that'd be very cool !

Took one as well last night. Wondering if there'll be more tonight.

So many great shots, from southern states , too.

Here, the lights are fairly common, as bright as anywhere at times, or slight. Here's a share from two nights ago .

I have been in a favorite town of mine for some days, invited to attend by a small group of veterans , enjoying large bore rifle shooting on a private estate, with an amazing view of the mountains. One of them, a retired Special Forces vet, has a Weatherby MV , as I do, but he said he's never seen such gorgeous wood grain as mine. Just like the Northern Lights in appearance. He jokingly asked if I would trade mine for his.

We enjoyed the evenings in story sharing, some of their experiences in their service. Every story was appreciated to every word.

They loved hearing me share some of my favorite book reading, poems, also some of Jack's stories. And singing a little. It was discussed that I start a volunteer program, with a veterans' organization there, to read aloud to vets once a week from an interesting book. To a man, they encouraged such a program, that they, and any veterans can attend, find soothing and refreshing from their daily cares. I thought it was a great idea.

Veterans Day was a wonderful time for me, amidst wonderful company.

The lights were icing on the cake. Investing in my iPhone for the camera quality was among the best choices I've made, taking the place of the scanner for large art formats as well. Thank you , JR, for encouraging me to get one of these.

Checking in to share with those here who have been asking of my absence, being on walkabout for a while. One of a few walkabouts, actually. Thank you.

Thank you all for sharing your photos.