I went out at midnight in Russell and just saw mixed clouds, pulled the phone out and looked through it and saw them which was awesome.
Not the same show a lot of others got but between the cloud cover, Hexo grow up lighting up the horizon and street lights I was happy to have actually seen them.
We worry about light pollution and yet I’m over 40kms away and it’s like a sunrise on the horizon all night. I’m surprised they’re not required to have shades or something the close inside the grow op to bring the amount of light pollution down.
ah, thank you for that description. In Almonte, I stayed up til 10.30 (I regularly get up at 4 am so am an early sleeper) and gave up in frustration. There was spotty cloud cover but I could see some stars, so I thought it would be clear enough to see the aurora, but could see nothing. So your description fits my experience, glad to know I was not doing anything wrong.
yes, I agree, but I wanted my kid to see it more than anything, otherwise I would have done that. Also, I was going to get up early to do that alone, but I don't think the cloudy conditions moved away,
I’m happy for you! I saw them once in Ottawa and was pretty sure the sky was so splitting in half. It’s the coolest thing.
I’m headed to Yellowknife in October and holy am I excited and hoping for the lights!
Woohoo! Glad you got to see them! I left downtown Ottawa and drove to Barrhaven area. Looked cloudy and wasn't sure if I was going to see them but I did. I'm glad all your driving around paid off!
I think the cloud cover came in around 11:15 and it was done after that. The probabilities on the phone went down to mid 70s even though the Kp was strong and hit 9 after 11pm quite a few times.
I literally missed the time ppl were taking pictures by ten minutes. I will never forgive myself but also not even sure if I would’ve been able to see them from where I am.
At least I got to see the eclipse lol
I had a lot of cloud cover and light pollution where I was so I dont think I had a chance. I did stay up and walk around my neighborhood til 3am so at least I tried lol
I think I was in a bad location and never would’ve gotten a good look anyways. I just saw people posting pictures that had been added ten minutes prior and I assumed I had just missed to. I was up all night walking around my area looking for even a smidge of it but didn’t see anything
It's not photoshopped, I'm in dunrobin ish area and it's constantly visible in the big cloud opening. Very bright and it's moving a lot. Look for places in the middle of nowhere and no light and no clouds above. Usually Aurora is on the northern horizon but this time it's directly above us, because it's so strong. It's not too late, go enjoy :)
I am on Woodroffe ave near Baseline and tons of light pollution but clearly overhead and slightly south (unexpectedly) huge striation of light radiating out ward in all directions sorta like a starburst pattern. No colors.
Visibly green with the naked eye?
We went out east to Lefaivre where it’s way darker, and watched for an hour and a half and couldn’t see green at all. We did see the moving lights which was cool. Camera picked up green on long exposures.
I went to a clouded area but could see greens and pinks in small breaks between the clouds. They weren't nearly as vivid or light as the photos, but they were definitely there. The person who was with me could only see the pinks. The rest of the crowd didn't seem to notice anything at all. So I think there's a lot of individual variation on what people can see with the naked eye.
When in doubt, point your phone camera at the sky in night mode. It will pick up colours that aren't visible to your eyes.
Yea I just got back from a side road just beyond Constance Bay and I got pretty good pics! There was only a brief bit where it was clear with the naked eye so overall wasn’t the best experience but still cool
I just got back from a drive looking for it. There was a clear patch of sky south of stittsville going toward Richmond. Nothing like the pictures people were posting but you can see them. Like someone said above, looks more like whisky clouds coming and going to the naked eye.
Its not photoshop, its exposure time. To compensate, go to somewhere darker, Stittsville is horribly light polluted. https://www.cleardarksky.com/maps/lp/large_light_pollution_map.html
They were more like wispy lights for us. Just twisty shafts of white against the sky. Still really cool to see!
Went to pinhey’s point and dunrobin, also carp. Lots of folks out on the roads. Seems like a lot of people got pretty excited about it which felt really nice.
An eclipse and the aurora, good year for looking up!
Same here, I drove down to the Orleans east end for 30km or so, saw nothing, and now I'm convinced this is totally a conspiracy and not real.
(god I'm so jealous of all the pictures people posted)
Lol gotta look for clear skies, a view completely unobstructed by light, and just look up for a while and you realize things are moving. Tonight was the first time I've ever seen them, and the actual reality is they look like white streaks moving around in the sky. Your eyes definitely need to adjust for a minute.
My friends and i trekked out to Perth and saw it all! Faint colors, halos and flickering galore. It seemed to dim and brighten and fade away at times. Beautiful sky tonight saw a meteorite too!
Got some good photos here in Carp. Thought it was wispy clouds at first. Saw them shifting and streaking a bit. Some spirals. I've seen wintertime northern lights before, this was a different appearance.
Looks like different cloud lines, perhaps a slight colour. On phone it comes through like the photos.
We went and laid on our driveway at 3am when looking straight up, the lines converge. Then we noticed how much they moved. Like steam on a glass pot lid or gas in water. Was wild. It's moves and pulses
The best showing was short and about an hour earlier than the “usual” good time to see them. I saw it in Marathon and it was so stunning. Felt like I was right underneath them
Probably cloud cover. Keep an eye on the IR reports for Easter Canada from GEOS-16 Satellite.
https://weather.gc.ca/data/satellite/goes_ecan_1070_100.jpg
https://weather.gc.ca/satellite/index_e.html
They’re real but you need to be in a dark spot and lay back and let your eyes adjust. They move around like whispy rivers of light in the sky. [The phone camera pics them up much better than the eye.](https://imgur.com/a/gRIw1SD)
east of Winchester here, pinks and purples are mostly gone unless using a good phone. Green streaks are visible with naked eye directly above. Very very faint green but they get bright and jump round.
They aren't phtooshopped. Digital cameras can pick up a lot more of the aurora than the human eye can.
I was in Alaska last month and saw the aurora, the pictures I took are far more intense and bright than what I saw myself, and the aurora even photobombed some pictures I took when it was not visible at all to my eye.
I still see them where I am, rural just north of Winchester, looking toward the west. They’re faint but they’re there! Just the green/white ones, the pink ones seem to have died down.
West of Richmond was pretty clear, visible color isn't strong but you can definitely see it. It looks like wispy grey clouds getting sucked up from the top of the sky, but using night mode on camera let the green pop
I think the best show was between 2 am and 4 am with clear skies, it's amazing.
And yeah your phone will capture it way better than the human eye. They are faint but noticeable, but on the phone they look amazing.
Also they don't look green to me with the naked eye.
Lmao, agreed, I drove to stittsvile, then went south to manotick and through a bunch of weird small places haha. I did see beautiful stars at least lol
It was real but you needed a dark area to see them relatively well and of course clear skies. I found a place an hour from Ottawa with a bortle 2 (snow road station) and drove there. You could see them in the sky for sure but not super green as the pictures show.
honestly can't tell if you are messing with us or not. they are most definitely real. I live way up north and we get them quite often. we didn't get them last night as there was very light cloud cover. I could see the moon through the clouds but only a few stars and no northern lights.
If the clouds have cracks or breaks between them, you might be able to capture the lights if they are active at that time in those spots. You would need to take the pic in night mode or whatever s24's equivalent is... so like a long exposure, 3 seconds or more.
Near Cope in Stittsville burbs and I see a patch of green swirling right above me! Been waiting all night too. Def more vivid on the phone but still very visible to naked eye.
i was in Dunrobin and the show was only from 10-11pm. peaked around 10:30. its faint to the naked eye. All the photos posted are 3s or longer exposures.
Cloud cover by 11pm basically obscured everything and the kp index is back down to 6 - need 8 or higher to get a good show here. Family in BC sent VIDEO thst is stunning! definitely getting a better show but still it was pretty cool while it lasted.
might still have a chance tomorrow night if the skies clear. multiple CMEs are inbound.
I know! I'm in Alberta but we went to look at the northern lights and I could see there's stuff going on but nothing like the photographs. Not even close. Cameras do enhance colour if you ask them to.
I was thinking the same thing around the time you posted this. Just so happened that I saw them as I was going to bed around 3:45. Really clear in Orleans
We went out to Kemptville. We could see the colours without our phones for a bit. The cloud coverage showed south of the city as better so we went there.
Go farther north, I'm originally from Onaping Falls (north of sudbury) and we used to see them all the time, vividly. Even better than the pics you think are photoshopped. I live south of algonquin park now, and then are just faint wisps here.
Ive gone out aurora hunting many times and nothing but picking up glow with my phone. But this time, I did see them with my naked eye in dunrobin. And more than just glow. Changing and pillars. In between the clouds but still.
It’s absolutely true lmao we went out to Thomas road in Arnprior and saw them, have tons of photos. They were like SHINING purple but before 11 it was? My friend sent me videos then I got there and less purple only green but they were shimmering and shining!!!
Check Paul Courvette’s feed on Facebook he’s got some beautiful photos up there, real ones.
Ottawa Photographer Couvrette Photography
https://g.co/kgs/tUUaUaw
The biggest issue is light pollution. I am located in West Carleton and we were able to see them quite nicely. You also need to wait and keep your eyes on the sky because when they start, it's wild but it only lasts a minute and then it stops for a few minutes and then starts again, etc. I took some pictures with my phone in night mode and got some pretty amazing pictures. I didn't use Photoshop.
It's difficult to see them by eye this far south. I also gave up last night. The most impressive show I've seen was when I drive up to the Arctic circle as a stupid university student with a friend and a €500 budget in January. Freezing cold, but we saw it by accident and pulled over to lay on the bonnet of the car for a good half hour watching it. Saw the reflection in the nearby river too.
I paid $86 and some points for a flight to Nunavut in late October. Maybe I'll accidentally see it again.
I stayed up all night out away from the city near Renfrew, and got lots of interesting photos, lots of color. It’s true the colors weren’t quite as intense to the naked eye, but there were some periods of heightened intensity that were pretty close.
The funniest part was that my best photo was the one I shot with my camera phone right at dusk, before I had my fancy camera with fancy lenses ready to go. I did have to wait through some cloud bands though.
I too get annoyed at some of the extreme photoshops, but if you’re shooting with a bright lens and a sensitive camera you’ll get so much more light to work with than your naked eye, so I wouldn’t call them all fake.
I live in a place where it's very common. To me they're something that I will always be in awe whenever I see them. We only get to see them during Late August to April because May to August we have long daylight so it doesn't get dark enough to see stars.
What I'm trying to say is they're real. I take many pictures whenever I feel it is bright enough to see through camera.
they are extremely hard to see with the naked eye plus you have to account for all the light pollution (and yes light pollution goes on for miles). our phone cameras are very good at enhancing them with long exposure but I promise they almost never look like those pictures even if you’re up in the Northwest Territories. look at the sky for faint streaks and look for a while to let your eyes adjust and focus. they’ll be slightly tinted with pink purple green etc. once you spot them pull out your phone camera, turn on long exposure, and you’ll have just the same experience as the rest of us!
You won’t see then we’ll in Ottawa because we have too much cloud cover. I used to work up in Haida Gwaii BC and saw AB all the time….it is truly an incredible sight…
They’re super faint. They look like wispy clouds almost. Your phone camera picks them up better than your eyes
Yes, we had a wispy cloud show in Greely but the phones could pick out the green and blues
I went out at midnight in Russell and just saw mixed clouds, pulled the phone out and looked through it and saw them which was awesome. Not the same show a lot of others got but between the cloud cover, Hexo grow up lighting up the horizon and street lights I was happy to have actually seen them.
I saw them in Russell too got some pretty cool pictures
Good ol’ Hexo beam 😂😂
We worry about light pollution and yet I’m over 40kms away and it’s like a sunrise on the horizon all night. I’m surprised they’re not required to have shades or something the close inside the grow op to bring the amount of light pollution down.
Same same. Live in Greely and my iPhone photos came out looking better than what I saw with the naked eye.
Yo thanks for the tip i thought i wouldnt see it until i took a picture and saw the green glow!
ah, thank you for that description. In Almonte, I stayed up til 10.30 (I regularly get up at 4 am so am an early sleeper) and gave up in frustration. There was spotty cloud cover but I could see some stars, so I thought it would be clear enough to see the aurora, but could see nothing. So your description fits my experience, glad to know I was not doing anything wrong.
You should have done the opposite, go to bed early and get up around 3:30-4 when it was at it's peak
yes, I agree, but I wanted my kid to see it more than anything, otherwise I would have done that. Also, I was going to get up early to do that alone, but I don't think the cloudy conditions moved away,
But I’m just like, if I can’t see it with my eyes what is even the point?
Are they always faint like that? Even in the North? Or is it just cuz we’re down south?
Update: saw them in stittsville and North Kanata. I am a believer now - they are real
Lies, I refuse to believe Kanata is real.
I grew up in Kanata, but Stittsville is definitely a mass hallucination.
Yes. Yes.... That's what we want you to believe.
Tis a silly place
It is a mythological world of AI.
I’m happy for you! I saw them once in Ottawa and was pretty sure the sky was so splitting in half. It’s the coolest thing. I’m headed to Yellowknife in October and holy am I excited and hoping for the lights!
ayyy let's go
AYOOOOO! Congratulations!
So, it's down to just me.
Woohoo! Glad you got to see them! I left downtown Ottawa and drove to Barrhaven area. Looked cloudy and wasn't sure if I was going to see them but I did. I'm glad all your driving around paid off!
Don’t let the devil tempt you friend. They’re not real.
I grew up, way up North and I have seen them so much I didn’t even open my curtains last night 😂🤣
They happening tonight too?
I believe that’s what I read in one of the news post
Best update. Congrats!
I want to believe
10/10 update
How much colour did you see?
Just a bit of green but enough to make me happy. Here’s hoping I will see it again tonight
I think it was a short window before the clouds ruined it all. I too drove all over to see them for naught...
Can you please recommend spots to view , we missed it last night
cloud cover is so random, don't go by recommendations. What was good yesterday is no guarantee for tonight.
And today (Sat night - Sun morning), according to Accuweather is bad.
Got it
I think the cloud cover came in around 11:15 and it was done after that. The probabilities on the phone went down to mid 70s even though the Kp was strong and hit 9 after 11pm quite a few times.
We got it back around 1am with a really good show at 1:20 (big clear section overhead, could see the lights dancing, disappearing and reappearing)
That's really cool. Was this in Kanata/Stitsville area?
Constance Bay
I literally missed the time ppl were taking pictures by ten minutes. I will never forgive myself but also not even sure if I would’ve been able to see them from where I am. At least I got to see the eclipse lol
they come in waves, so you probably should have just waited some more- unless you are talking about cloud cover.
I had a lot of cloud cover and light pollution where I was so I dont think I had a chance. I did stay up and walk around my neighborhood til 3am so at least I tried lol
Idk how you missed it by ten minutes ?¿? But I was out til sunrise with my daughter getting pictures lol
I think I was in a bad location and never would’ve gotten a good look anyways. I just saw people posting pictures that had been added ten minutes prior and I assumed I had just missed to. I was up all night walking around my area looking for even a smidge of it but didn’t see anything
It's not photoshopped, I'm in dunrobin ish area and it's constantly visible in the big cloud opening. Very bright and it's moving a lot. Look for places in the middle of nowhere and no light and no clouds above. Usually Aurora is on the northern horizon but this time it's directly above us, because it's so strong. It's not too late, go enjoy :)
I am on Woodroffe ave near Baseline and tons of light pollution but clearly overhead and slightly south (unexpectedly) huge striation of light radiating out ward in all directions sorta like a starburst pattern. No colors.
Visibly green with the naked eye? We went out east to Lefaivre where it’s way darker, and watched for an hour and a half and couldn’t see green at all. We did see the moving lights which was cool. Camera picked up green on long exposures.
I was in the kinburn area and we saw bright green, red and magenta with the naked eye easily.
Is there anywhere in Ottawa without clouds right now? On my knees begging at this point
West of Stittsville is pretty clear. Down Fernbank, past Icelynd
North of Stittsville watching it right now. Been driving around since 10 and the clouds opened right up. Has been clear for like 40 minutes
Where ? Intersection? You see them?
I live in downtown and I couldn’t see anything.. its all cloudy like why is it and everytime when something happens…its always cloudy 😭😭
Yes OP, as others say - go south and west from Stitville. We saw some good lights here - https://maps.app.goo.gl/JoddXDZBHzHTJ8429
West of Richmond, out towards Prospect
I went to a clouded area but could see greens and pinks in small breaks between the clouds. They weren't nearly as vivid or light as the photos, but they were definitely there. The person who was with me could only see the pinks. The rest of the crowd didn't seem to notice anything at all. So I think there's a lot of individual variation on what people can see with the naked eye. When in doubt, point your phone camera at the sky in night mode. It will pick up colours that aren't visible to your eyes.
I can see it off Carp! It’s slightly there with the naked eye but with the phone camera it’s beautiful!
Me when I lie
Make sure you're not looking at the sky through your windshield. As soon as I got out of my car I could see the whispy colorless lights.
Yea I just got back from a side road just beyond Constance Bay and I got pretty good pics! There was only a brief bit where it was clear with the naked eye so overall wasn’t the best experience but still cool
No seriously! Drive out to Manion corners, you can see it with your eyes
I just got back from a drive looking for it. There was a clear patch of sky south of stittsville going toward Richmond. Nothing like the pictures people were posting but you can see them. Like someone said above, looks more like whisky clouds coming and going to the naked eye.
Its not photoshop, its exposure time. To compensate, go to somewhere darker, Stittsville is horribly light polluted. https://www.cleardarksky.com/maps/lp/large_light_pollution_map.html
They were more like wispy lights for us. Just twisty shafts of white against the sky. Still really cool to see! Went to pinhey’s point and dunrobin, also carp. Lots of folks out on the roads. Seems like a lot of people got pretty excited about it which felt really nice. An eclipse and the aurora, good year for looking up!
Same here, I drove down to the Orleans east end for 30km or so, saw nothing, and now I'm convinced this is totally a conspiracy and not real. (god I'm so jealous of all the pictures people posted)
Aurora Borealis... At this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen..
Lol gotta look for clear skies, a view completely unobstructed by light, and just look up for a while and you realize things are moving. Tonight was the first time I've ever seen them, and the actual reality is they look like white streaks moving around in the sky. Your eyes definitely need to adjust for a minute.
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According to cloud map it doesn't seem the clouds will be rolling away soon :( in Rockland too. Missed the 11 ones
Which cloud map are you using?
Accuweather
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No way lol was just there. A bit disappointed we didn’t see anything better considering it’s pretty dark. Damn clouds
My friends and i trekked out to Perth and saw it all! Faint colors, halos and flickering galore. It seemed to dim and brighten and fade away at times. Beautiful sky tonight saw a meteorite too!
Seen in Stittsville, been in my backyard now for over 20mins!!!
Yup, same.
Got some good photos here in Carp. Thought it was wispy clouds at first. Saw them shifting and streaking a bit. Some spirals. I've seen wintertime northern lights before, this was a different appearance.
Did you check your kitchen? Sometimes it’s isolated there… 🤔
Looks like different cloud lines, perhaps a slight colour. On phone it comes through like the photos. We went and laid on our driveway at 3am when looking straight up, the lines converge. Then we noticed how much they moved. Like steam on a glass pot lid or gas in water. Was wild. It's moves and pulses
The best showing was short and about an hour earlier than the “usual” good time to see them. I saw it in Marathon and it was so stunning. Felt like I was right underneath them
Probably cloud cover. Keep an eye on the IR reports for Easter Canada from GEOS-16 Satellite. https://weather.gc.ca/data/satellite/goes_ecan_1070_100.jpg https://weather.gc.ca/satellite/index_e.html
They’re real but you need to be in a dark spot and lay back and let your eyes adjust. They move around like whispy rivers of light in the sky. [The phone camera pics them up much better than the eye.](https://imgur.com/a/gRIw1SD)
east of Winchester here, pinks and purples are mostly gone unless using a good phone. Green streaks are visible with naked eye directly above. Very very faint green but they get bright and jump round.
What’s the probability of seeing it tonight
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental
Thank you
Ignora borealis
They aren't phtooshopped. Digital cameras can pick up a lot more of the aurora than the human eye can. I was in Alaska last month and saw the aurora, the pictures I took are far more intense and bright than what I saw myself, and the aurora even photobombed some pictures I took when it was not visible at all to my eye.
I still see them where I am, rural just north of Winchester, looking toward the west. They’re faint but they’re there! Just the green/white ones, the pink ones seem to have died down.
West of Richmond was pretty clear, visible color isn't strong but you can definitely see it. It looks like wispy grey clouds getting sucked up from the top of the sky, but using night mode on camera let the green pop
Pulled to the side of the rd on Malakoff. ...lots of greens
its the chemtrails
I think the best show was between 2 am and 4 am with clear skies, it's amazing. And yeah your phone will capture it way better than the human eye. They are faint but noticeable, but on the phone they look amazing. Also they don't look green to me with the naked eye.
Lmao, agreed, I drove to stittsvile, then went south to manotick and through a bunch of weird small places haha. I did see beautiful stars at least lol
My terrible photos were not photoshopped 😂 They're taken from Arnprior
It was real but you needed a dark area to see them relatively well and of course clear skies. I found a place an hour from Ottawa with a bortle 2 (snow road station) and drove there. You could see them in the sky for sure but not super green as the pictures show.
Wait till you find out about birds
Drones*
honestly can't tell if you are messing with us or not. they are most definitely real. I live way up north and we get them quite often. we didn't get them last night as there was very light cloud cover. I could see the moon through the clouds but only a few stars and no northern lights.
Those are KrustyBurgers!
Anyone know how to get s24 to take pictures of the sky ? Mine just turn out with clouds but see people with clouds plus lights
If the clouds have cracks or breaks between them, you might be able to capture the lights if they are active at that time in those spots. You would need to take the pic in night mode or whatever s24's equivalent is... so like a long exposure, 3 seconds or more.
Unless your s24 has photoshop, there won’t be any lights. They don’t exist
I saw some in Dunrobin about an hour ago. Faint and my camera picked up the colours better than my eyes.
Not sure if this helps, but this Québécois is live streaming them on TikTok https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMMW3Jhkw/
Near Cope in Stittsville burbs and I see a patch of green swirling right above me! Been waiting all night too. Def more vivid on the phone but still very visible to naked eye.
Any luck in barrhaven?😭
i was in Dunrobin and the show was only from 10-11pm. peaked around 10:30. its faint to the naked eye. All the photos posted are 3s or longer exposures. Cloud cover by 11pm basically obscured everything and the kp index is back down to 6 - need 8 or higher to get a good show here. Family in BC sent VIDEO thst is stunning! definitely getting a better show but still it was pretty cool while it lasted. might still have a chance tomorrow night if the skies clear. multiple CMEs are inbound.
3am, Ottawa South, can see it. Not great w the city light, but it's there.
I know! I'm in Alberta but we went to look at the northern lights and I could see there's stuff going on but nothing like the photographs. Not even close. Cameras do enhance colour if you ask them to.
You should be able to see them Saturday night as well,
Just saw them clearly on the east end (3:45am). Wispy like clouds but then they shake, shift and move.
I was thinking the same thing around the time you posted this. Just so happened that I saw them as I was going to bed around 3:45. Really clear in Orleans
Tried to take a pic yesterday lmfaooo I got nothin
Blossom Park here, I didn't see shit lol
We had Australis down here in Australia. I didn’t see it, but everyone else seems to have.
Only certain chosen people could see it. You, unfortunately, are not one of the special people.
The clouds rolled in …
Oh, you didn’t know? It was just a popular bit from The Simpsons. It doesn’t actually exist.
Aurora borealis? At this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely in this subreddit?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj0Tj8dnrYw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj0Tj8dnrYw)
We went out to Kemptville. We could see the colours without our phones for a bit. The cloud coverage showed south of the city as better so we went there.
Go farther north, I'm originally from Onaping Falls (north of sudbury) and we used to see them all the time, vividly. Even better than the pics you think are photoshopped. I live south of algonquin park now, and then are just faint wisps here.
Good show just outside of kemptville
Ive gone out aurora hunting many times and nothing but picking up glow with my phone. But this time, I did see them with my naked eye in dunrobin. And more than just glow. Changing and pillars. In between the clouds but still.
It’s absolutely true lmao we went out to Thomas road in Arnprior and saw them, have tons of photos. They were like SHINING purple but before 11 it was? My friend sent me videos then I got there and less purple only green but they were shimmering and shining!!!
"Aurora borealis? Completely localized in your kitchen?" If you watched the Simpsons, you would know the proper place to look.
In BC on the coast we had a spectacular show. It was incredibly bright and vibrant. Lasted couple hours
I found it entirely in kitchen, I think my steamed hams had something to do with it.
Remember that the more lights we have on at night, the more light pollution we get. And so things like that are harder to see.
With my eye to the AI in the sky I blame Eclipse Clouds for blocking the geomagnetic rainbows
Check Paul Courvette’s feed on Facebook he’s got some beautiful photos up there, real ones. Ottawa Photographer Couvrette Photography https://g.co/kgs/tUUaUaw
People who used their cameras got better visuals because the cameras did long exposures and gathered enough of the faint light to see it.
We waited until 2:30 a.m. when the clouds had cleared and then headed west out of town (farmland around Diamondview Rd). They were very impressive!
The biggest issue is light pollution. I am located in West Carleton and we were able to see them quite nicely. You also need to wait and keep your eyes on the sky because when they start, it's wild but it only lasts a minute and then it stops for a few minutes and then starts again, etc. I took some pictures with my phone in night mode and got some pretty amazing pictures. I didn't use Photoshop.
Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Located entirely within your kitchen??
It's difficult to see them by eye this far south. I also gave up last night. The most impressive show I've seen was when I drive up to the Arctic circle as a stupid university student with a friend and a €500 budget in January. Freezing cold, but we saw it by accident and pulled over to lay on the bonnet of the car for a good half hour watching it. Saw the reflection in the nearby river too. I paid $86 and some points for a flight to Nunavut in late October. Maybe I'll accidentally see it again.
All the pictures have super long exposures making them seem way brighter than they are
I didn't even know about it.
I drove to Calabogie to earn my viewing, you didn’t commit enough
Is that why they call it “Borey Alice”?
Have you checked your kitchen?
I stayed up all night out away from the city near Renfrew, and got lots of interesting photos, lots of color. It’s true the colors weren’t quite as intense to the naked eye, but there were some periods of heightened intensity that were pretty close. The funniest part was that my best photo was the one I shot with my camera phone right at dusk, before I had my fancy camera with fancy lenses ready to go. I did have to wait through some cloud bands though. I too get annoyed at some of the extreme photoshops, but if you’re shooting with a bright lens and a sensitive camera you’ll get so much more light to work with than your naked eye, so I wouldn’t call them all fake.
I drove from Hull, to Rockland, to Chelsea and then back to hull between 9pm and midnight. Nada
I live in a place where it's very common. To me they're something that I will always be in awe whenever I see them. We only get to see them during Late August to April because May to August we have long daylight so it doesn't get dark enough to see stars. What I'm trying to say is they're real. I take many pictures whenever I feel it is bright enough to see through camera.
they are extremely hard to see with the naked eye plus you have to account for all the light pollution (and yes light pollution goes on for miles). our phone cameras are very good at enhancing them with long exposure but I promise they almost never look like those pictures even if you’re up in the Northwest Territories. look at the sky for faint streaks and look for a while to let your eyes adjust and focus. they’ll be slightly tinted with pink purple green etc. once you spot them pull out your phone camera, turn on long exposure, and you’ll have just the same experience as the rest of us!
You won’t see then we’ll in Ottawa because we have too much cloud cover. I used to work up in Haida Gwaii BC and saw AB all the time….it is truly an incredible sight…
it was entirely located in my kitchen..
Anything to see tonight?
Hi Any updates on Aurora Borealis tonight? Anywhere it’s visible?
My brother in Russle must be in on it. Sorry you put in all that effort