Northern Lights-seen them live?

[salsabike]

This was posted on twitter today by Terry Virts, an astronaut on the International Space Station. The Gulf Coast from New Orleans to Florida, looking north with the northern lights in the background.

https://twitter.com/AstroTerry/statu...375104/photo/1

The ISS is probably the best place to see the northern lights.

I think ISS has many fantastic photos of the Northern Lights. I am a sci fi geek and NASA lover. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos...st_ISS_Imagery

[NoNo]

I was fortunate enough to see the lights when I was up in Hudson Bay back in 2005. Since then, I've been to northern Canada many times, including the Arctic, and never saw it again. I'm so grateful I got to see it that one time, though. I'm not a religious person, but standing out there at 40 below watching that show was about as close to a connection to something greater as I've ever felt. It was just awe-inspiring.

[shootingstar]

Interesting....you must have had a personal or work-related connection to northern Canada at the time for that many visits.

[NoNo]

Actually I'm in a MINI Cooper club, and we have an annual northern road trip. We pick someplace and try to drive as far north as we can, hitting the end of the road. There's something exciting about knowing you literally can't go any further. I've seen some amazing scenery, the people have always been very kind to us, and it's important to me to see such a fragile environment.

[salsabike]

Actually I'm in a MINI Cooper club, and we have an annual northern road trip. We pick someplace and try to drive as far north as we can, hitting the end of the road. There's something exciting about knowing you literally can't go any further. I've seen some amazing scenery, the people have always been very kind to us, and it's important to me to see such a fragile environment.

NoNo, that sounds so cool!

[NoNo]

This was me stuck at the Arctic Circle, waiting out a storm. It was about -30 there.


This was the ice road, of Ice Road Truckers fame, right up at Tuktoyaktuk, NWT.


This was the first trip north, the one that grabbed me and instilled my love of the great white north. I'd rather go here than a tropical island any day!

[shootingstar]

How difficult was to photo shoot northern lights, NoNo?

I live 1,000 km. south of probably the areas where you went in Arctic. Where I live now, it does plunge down to -30 to -40 degrees C several days per winter. Amazingly a few hardy local cyclists do commute to work on bike. I don't mind it if temperatures dip in winter down to -25 degrees C. After that, it's hard to enjoy stuff outdoors for long.

These are working sled dogs tethered on edge of town, Iqualuit on Baffin Island that I saw when I was there. Real working husky dogs must be outside. Traditionally they are not domesticated to be indoors. I say more earlier in this thread with other linked photos.



The territory of Nunavut, inside their legislative assembly building, there are sealskin covered benches, art wall hangings.. Canada's most unique legislative assembly building in design. Humble but striking. Did you go to Iqualuit.



Bilingual signage at post office. There one does see also trilingual signs.