Tennessee
Related: About this forumAnyone else get to see the aurora borealis last night?
This was from our backyard outside of Nashville.
Glorfindel
(9,923 posts)posted a photo on Facebook this morning that looks very much like your picture.
I can't ever remember the northern lights being seen this far south before. I'm glad you got to see it, and thanks for sharing your photo.
Docreed2003
(17,805 posts)You're welcome!
greatauntoftriplets
(176,852 posts)It was raining in Chicago.
Tanuki
(15,315 posts)I'm glad you got to see it, though!
😺
Dear_Prudence
(823 posts)If sky clears, we could be in for another display tonight!
Docreed2003
(17,805 posts)Supposed to be between midnight and 2am
Ocelot II
(120,858 posts)to get away from the city lights, and it was worth it!
IrishAfricanAmerican
(4,174 posts)brakester
(115 posts)I'm from your area and couldn't see the color with my eyes, but my phone camera caught it.
IrishAfricanAmerican
(4,174 posts)I took my phone out after I saw someone post but I didn't realize you had to actually take a picture. I didn't see anything on the screen. Unfortunately, they're not forecasting it being this far south tonight
NewHendoLib
(60,501 posts)usonian
(13,836 posts)I kicked up the brightness of the photo I took Friday night, just to show detail.
The "original" is how it looked to the eyeball.
Very dim, but looking a tad brighter than the usual night sky.
Central CA, so I wasn't expecting any light show at all.
https://democraticunderground.com/100218940266
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Thunderbeast
(3,534 posts)We were visiting Arctic Norway (71° North) ten days ago with clear weather...
DAMN!
Liberty Belle
(9,611 posts)On Mt. Laguna and nearby, where it's dark.
It was NOT forecast to get this far south in Califiornia -- but at least a dozen friends posted pics on FB, so it's real.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=749167860751441&set=pcb.749168057418088
watrwefitinfor
(1,404 posts)here in northeastern South Carolina. I was a very little girl about four or five when my grandfather took me out to the back yard and showed me and explained this most brilliant light show in the distance, across the fields and forests. It was mostly in reds, and didn't reach so high into the sky as your photo. But I remember watching it so full of first fear, then of awe.
Granddaddy sat beside me on the ground and told me about seeing them from the ship he was on either going to or coming home from France and WWI. And how much more brilliant and clear they were on out on the ocean.
I have read recently that the reds are more visible than the other colors the further away from them you get. Thus all the reds we get in the south, when we are fortunate enough to see them.
Hazy here last night. I'll try again tonight.
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Docreed2003
(17,805 posts)Thank you for sharing! Hope you have clearer skies tonight!
IrishAfricanAmerican
(4,174 posts)It was cool! Off the coast of SK.
drmeow
(5,283 posts)my neighbors saw it but by the time I got to somewhere without trees blocking my view it was gone