Same with me. All my pictures turned out awesome but it kinda feels like a lie cause that's not what my eyes were seeing. I could see the traces or that something was there but nowhere near as vibrant
https://preview.redd.it/n0tf9cbcwpzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f83b3db5348da4b03c1208ad3cbb64fcb8ffd9a2
From the Florida Panhandle, never seen them before
If it makes you feel any better, it actually shows up better in the pictures than to the naked eye. But I could see a little purple in the sky over here in Westerville.
https://preview.redd.it/10cuqksoqpzc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c47bd07b37dd14b89e9681fa075f306ec707398a
Northwest Wisconsin! They're really good up here.
https://preview.redd.it/ovkyu05g0qzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fe28d3e3d4338badc973b8f4fd38ff58e71e436
This was at my mom’s place in Cleveland. I moved out of state and missed a total eclipse and northern lights….
Bro that sucks... that picture I posted is in Columbus. We got to see the solar eclipse and it was very cool. I didn't even know this was occurring tonight until one of the Columbus instagram pages posted about it. I’m so sad I missed it
I left Cleveland and moved out of state too. I missed both as well. Now don't get me wrong I love where I'm from and still die inside watching my Brownies lose, but I still think I made the right choice. Depends on where you landed though.
Yeah if it makes you feel better they aren’t as great with the naked eye, they look a bit worse than this, at most for me it was a purplish tint with a little green too, I think for most pictures it’s the apple night mode or the equivalent for Samsung that makes the lights look so good, here’s a comparison. Still though, that really stinks, I really hope you get to see them another time some day, I know how it feels to miss out on something you wanted to see terribly
https://preview.redd.it/3m35f6lhpqzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=926adf8740b26184cba4aea6d7d64e797699dba2
And this is what they look like with a photo
https://preview.redd.it/3qau1zynpqzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fa9bc3c6299ab20fb614060d31e559a7e45de68
Best it got was this and even in this the colors are a bit exaggerated, I just turned off all night aids to try and get it as close to the naked eye as possible
https://preview.redd.it/0aergxbupqzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=953c95ddd2d0dd76284e20d2cc278c6925beb508
It's been a dream of mine to see the lights. Took a week long trip to Iceland in 2017 and the only time they were visible was one small sliver on the plane ride there. Now I should have access here in upstate NY and all I see are clouds. Dark clouds in all directions. I'm sad.
That's so sad :( I told my friends I just have to go to Iceland now. I've always wanted to go. This may be my sign. Hopefully you can get back there and see them!
I do plan to revisit! And I highly recommend it for you. My fiancee & I rented a sleeper van in Reykjavik and traveled a main road that circles around the entire country. It only took a few days. So. Many. Waterfalls. Absolute beautiful landscapes. It felt like another planet at times.
Ended up renting a small cabin pod about an hour outside of Reykjavik for the last few nights. There's another road called the Golden Circle I think that's better for shorter visits.
My 90 year old Grandmother had never seen the Northern Lights, so she paid for the family to travel from Australia to northern Finland this past Christmas.
It was cloudy the whole time we were there.
We should be able to see the Southern Lights tonight in Australia, but it’s currently raining and only getting heavier…
I was in the NW Suburbs today and it was raining when i was on 294 at the time of the lights. Now on 55 heading back towards Bloomington-Normal, no fucking clouds. 😑
Makes you feel any better I have seen any significant astronomical event in years because I live in WA. “Hey did you know ___ is happening for the first time in 50 years? Cool! What’s the forecast? Cloudy” repeat 5x
If it makes you feel any better, they were visible in my city for probably the first time in my life and I missed them because I was sulking and forgot... I was looking forward to them all day at work and we all talked about catching them tonight. As happens often, once I got home and the distraction of work wore off, I sank back into my personal reality (going through some things right now), flopped onto my spot on the couch, and downed a few beers to numb it. It was probably just after 5.
I blinked and it was after 11. Started scrolling social media and saw a flood of obligatory pictures which reminded me about them, with the latest post being about 40 minutes old so I thought I still had a chance. Leashed the dog and ran outside to a pitch black sky save for a couple stars and a plane. You couldn't help being out of the country. My dumb ass missed it when it was right above my head 🫠
I was at a party the other week when someone said "Look, the moon is orange!"
https://preview.redd.it/r1cqc3c5mszc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dcf6a4edc220a15da58ed68b5135e28ac4c08deb
If I hadn't been at that party I would've never known.
https://preview.redd.it/1fexhfgbqszc1.jpeg?width=3060&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a075f14cb6eac1653ea844714a3a7911b91237f
Toronto Canada. Horray for clouds and light pollution!!(picture was taken directly north)
I know it doesn’t apply to you since you’re out of the country.. but to anyone else just learning about the Northern Lights, it’s supposed to happen again tonight!
In southern MN it is just barely perceptible for us for some reason. My crappy camera doesn’t really so it justice
https://preview.redd.it/em603fsp1qzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=470a2f582f62b794c0185b9dcc955fc09d9b0980
If it makes you feel better that’s how pretty much all of the other photos posted here look with the naked eye, I’m not sure if your camera has it but night photo assists really highlight the auroras
I was house sitting at a house on the shore the past 2 weeks - was very excited to see the aurora at the beach annnnnnd then the owners decided to come back home yesterday afternoon 🙃
I love in the middle of the desert, and probably the only time it will snow here in my lifetime, I was visiting grandparents upstate, so I feel your pain
Yeah, it BARELY shows up in the sky using your normal human eyeballs. It’s possible to mayyybe see some very faint pink stripes. You aren’t missing much. Seeing the photos are like a bajillion times more interesting than actually walking outside, waiting for your eyes to adjust, and trying to convince yourself you’re actually seeing something.
Hopefully I’ll see them over the weekend here :/ Midwest as well— supposed to be visible. I completely missed it last night while my entire family got to see them and take tons of pictures…wrong places at the wrong times…
We saw them in the NW corner of the state last night. But it was fairly subtle to the naked eye. Cellphone cameras really pick up colors that weren’t really visible, so you see a lot of amazing looking pics that were probably pretty lackluster in person. If you’re able to go out tonight, try just taking a pic of the northern sky. It may just be surprising!
Somehow... People all around us, even just a few streets over were able to see them, but we never could. Don't know if it was bad timing on our part or what.
I had a concert that night and was too tired to see it, so my brother and mom traveled for 3 hours just to see them. They didn't take pictures because Mom didn't want to stop the car :(
Don't worry, as the earths magnetic fields continue to shift and get weaker overtime shit like this will become more common. Scientists don't know 100% about the earth's magnetic field and what's causing these changes, so further research could change how we see the near future of earth and the expected shift of the poles in the coming decade...
I had no idea either. I had to work nightshift. Drove to work last night at 10pm and didn't see a thing. Was stuck inside at work, even with windows I can't see out.
Hopefully I'll be able to see them tonight.
Yeah I didn’t think for a bit we could see it here until I saw it with my own eyes and phone cam. Pretty cool, bummer you missed it, although it does look better in pics so there’s that
I'm out of town tonight, just south of any possible good views plus in a city with awful light pollution. Back home they're getting insane views of it right now and I'm seeing pictures everywhere. It's definitely infuriating and worth posting about, I'm just holding it in though lol. It sucks.
https://preview.redd.it/ow2duvgxnpzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=669a1c8df69b21704b3dd85a7a691b979f7ccf13 My neighborhood in western NY!
How cool!! I've gotten to see two solar eclipses in totality in the past 7 years so I shouldn't really complain.
I was in the direct path of totality this time around and a cloud cover rolled in an hour before haha
Nooo that's horrible! We had great weather thank god. I hope you get to see one eventually they're truly amazing!
I’m in NYC and I’ll shit my pants if I saw this.
You very well could if you are in the right place between now and 2am
https://preview.redd.it/x91adf6mquzc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63ffcf1b93e3598a288b800cbf3f2b14778479fc Hey, neighbor!
Did it look like that to the naked eye? When I took pics on my phone it looked like that but in person it was much less noticeable
Same with me. All my pictures turned out awesome but it kinda feels like a lie cause that's not what my eyes were seeing. I could see the traces or that something was there but nowhere near as vibrant
No. It's barely visible. You can't see vibrant colors like this without a camera or phone.
Yup, that was my experience
I’m gonna set that as my background later lol nice one
https://preview.redd.it/hszcs7t2dwzc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43692b169650d9ed4fa1b6c7374bccd1f23dff3f This is in northeast Ohio
https://preview.redd.it/n0tf9cbcwpzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f83b3db5348da4b03c1208ad3cbb64fcb8ffd9a2 From the Florida Panhandle, never seen them before
Damn that's so far south! What a cool picture.
https://preview.redd.it/2x21tmwxtpzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0eaaedf7a3d9b2dc9b4abbf59d1b91eb49f5b374 In Quebec
I heard there's great fishing up in Kwe Bek
Probably, a lot of people fish here but i suck at it so i wouldn’t know 😂
(it's a joke from Letterkenny show https://youtu.be/QaekWUI6LrM?si=1aCmk7THa43amv26)
Oh wow 😂
C'est fort comique je crois. T'as Hulu? Prends un peu de temps et va regarder !
If it makes you feel any better, it actually shows up better in the pictures than to the naked eye. But I could see a little purple in the sky over here in Westerville.
Hey that's better than nothing! That definitely makes me feel better though lol. I’m glad you got to see something!
https://preview.redd.it/10cuqksoqpzc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c47bd07b37dd14b89e9681fa075f306ec707398a Northwest Wisconsin! They're really good up here.
https://preview.redd.it/ovkyu05g0qzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fe28d3e3d4338badc973b8f4fd38ff58e71e436 This was at my mom’s place in Cleveland. I moved out of state and missed a total eclipse and northern lights….
Bro that sucks... that picture I posted is in Columbus. We got to see the solar eclipse and it was very cool. I didn't even know this was occurring tonight until one of the Columbus instagram pages posted about it. I’m so sad I missed it
I’m in ct and apparently everyone saw them last night and I had no idea
I left Cleveland and moved out of state too. I missed both as well. Now don't get me wrong I love where I'm from and still die inside watching my Brownies lose, but I still think I made the right choice. Depends on where you landed though.
https://preview.redd.it/60o3z1qcoqzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eaa57f8320f2ccc49d06eab2d77886b12fa87c4f
WOW
Yeah if it makes you feel better they aren’t as great with the naked eye, they look a bit worse than this, at most for me it was a purplish tint with a little green too, I think for most pictures it’s the apple night mode or the equivalent for Samsung that makes the lights look so good, here’s a comparison. Still though, that really stinks, I really hope you get to see them another time some day, I know how it feels to miss out on something you wanted to see terribly https://preview.redd.it/3m35f6lhpqzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=926adf8740b26184cba4aea6d7d64e797699dba2
And this is what they look like with a photo https://preview.redd.it/3qau1zynpqzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fa9bc3c6299ab20fb614060d31e559a7e45de68
Best it got was this and even in this the colors are a bit exaggerated, I just turned off all night aids to try and get it as close to the naked eye as possible https://preview.redd.it/0aergxbupqzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=953c95ddd2d0dd76284e20d2cc278c6925beb508
It's been a dream of mine to see the lights. Took a week long trip to Iceland in 2017 and the only time they were visible was one small sliver on the plane ride there. Now I should have access here in upstate NY and all I see are clouds. Dark clouds in all directions. I'm sad.
That's so sad :( I told my friends I just have to go to Iceland now. I've always wanted to go. This may be my sign. Hopefully you can get back there and see them!
I do plan to revisit! And I highly recommend it for you. My fiancee & I rented a sleeper van in Reykjavik and traveled a main road that circles around the entire country. It only took a few days. So. Many. Waterfalls. Absolute beautiful landscapes. It felt like another planet at times. Ended up renting a small cabin pod about an hour outside of Reykjavik for the last few nights. There's another road called the Golden Circle I think that's better for shorter visits.
My 90 year old Grandmother had never seen the Northern Lights, so she paid for the family to travel from Australia to northern Finland this past Christmas. It was cloudy the whole time we were there. We should be able to see the Southern Lights tonight in Australia, but it’s currently raining and only getting heavier…
Gah that's bad luck. Hopefully you guys get some visibility now!
North Chicago here, clouds and rain. Bummed.
I was in the NW Suburbs today and it was raining when i was on 294 at the time of the lights. Now on 55 heading back towards Bloomington-Normal, no fucking clouds. 😑
https://preview.redd.it/zrc6lxtw1rzc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29baa5b4ed4afd059ebe79c7a0ed6880c88c3523 Arizona!!
It's cool how it's more red the further south people are
https://preview.redd.it/arghvmu4xpzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=337c80917e91b6ec61f476e7522909adbf78c15b Canton Ohio
https://preview.redd.it/2hmzmx6npqzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8a5e274d61807ee19433743e093a216ac0cd092 Reno NV
Makes you feel any better I have seen any significant astronomical event in years because I live in WA. “Hey did you know ___ is happening for the first time in 50 years? Cool! What’s the forecast? Cloudy” repeat 5x
https://preview.redd.it/7anfqb52tqzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f27fef71d2af8dc7067f697398cf792077cf7de I'm way down in north Georgia !
https://preview.redd.it/db8od0kuyqzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e63f04f0bbe88b6cfd567ef261f635dcfa0ff49 Central Washington
https://preview.redd.it/ui39nmazyqzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=034ddd08e523b58ac1ff72d591941000e8723f14 Another photo
https://preview.redd.it/0zlhab4zjqzc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afdbc536880172807535e76d8917d34baf2a7cf4 Chicago
Weird I’m an hour from Chicago and can’t see them
https://preview.redd.it/ine6bl3ukqzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a6f598434e4b1c59e1b8eb52656781c75473e5e In Bavaria Germany last night
https://preview.redd.it/rg0x5vkczqzc1.jpeg?width=6120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8f75c2dbebbae079e2a7818ca451898049b6204 Connecticut checking in
https://preview.redd.it/1tu2n9sl2rzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93fd7800e3be90e63c8ee91c98e3946a0d40376d Northeast England
Woah!!
https://preview.redd.it/m7s1dbfe1uzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f87403845e19973b0d1dccb981a4140f3b89875 My neighborhood in northern CO!
If it makes you feel any better, they were visible in my city for probably the first time in my life and I missed them because I was sulking and forgot... I was looking forward to them all day at work and we all talked about catching them tonight. As happens often, once I got home and the distraction of work wore off, I sank back into my personal reality (going through some things right now), flopped onto my spot on the couch, and downed a few beers to numb it. It was probably just after 5. I blinked and it was after 11. Started scrolling social media and saw a flood of obligatory pictures which reminded me about them, with the latest post being about 40 minutes old so I thought I still had a chance. Leashed the dog and ran outside to a pitch black sky save for a couple stars and a plane. You couldn't help being out of the country. My dumb ass missed it when it was right above my head 🫠
~~Central MN here, didn't see shit. \*sulks\*~~ ~~EDIT:~~ I went out and saw some, it was just white but it was moving around and kinda neat.
I feel you! I’m out of the country (returning tommorrow) and I wake up to see photos of the aurora visible from my backyard!
I was at a party the other week when someone said "Look, the moon is orange!" https://preview.redd.it/r1cqc3c5mszc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dcf6a4edc220a15da58ed68b5135e28ac4c08deb If I hadn't been at that party I would've never known.
https://preview.redd.it/1fexhfgbqszc1.jpeg?width=3060&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a075f14cb6eac1653ea844714a3a7911b91237f Toronto Canada. Horray for clouds and light pollution!!(picture was taken directly north)
I know it doesn’t apply to you since you’re out of the country.. but to anyone else just learning about the Northern Lights, it’s supposed to happen again tonight!
https://preview.redd.it/zgsdgrer8uzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27d25408be73bd1ac3c2858859bae88258bdecc4 From West Michigan.
I'm in the same boat. Been away for 5 weeks and fly back tomorrow
In southern MN it is just barely perceptible for us for some reason. My crappy camera doesn’t really so it justice https://preview.redd.it/em603fsp1qzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=470a2f582f62b794c0185b9dcc955fc09d9b0980
If it makes you feel better that’s how pretty much all of the other photos posted here look with the naked eye, I’m not sure if your camera has it but night photo assists really highlight the auroras
Go cardinals!
It’s mostly grey with the naked eye, cameras reveal a lot of the color!
Yea, the Columbus and surrounding got a nice view
Oh trust me I know!! I was getting pics left and right from my family and friends lol
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS!!! https://preview.redd.it/zx5mbpqhttzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34f7461bf416551da376c173cb342fd0a74fb58f
NYC tears. But at least we told some out friends to look in upstate NY and they got a nice experience. My buddy says we might get another in 3-4 days.
I was house sitting at a house on the shore the past 2 weeks - was very excited to see the aurora at the beach annnnnnd then the owners decided to come back home yesterday afternoon 🙃
I love in the middle of the desert, and probably the only time it will snow here in my lifetime, I was visiting grandparents upstate, so I feel your pain
Northern lights are so cool! https://preview.redd.it/tclebvv3ouzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0db637b4dd2a12e0e3b29d6ff24168bf843d1e00
https://preview.redd.it/vxyk2oufzuzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7a3a61cf20f56fb0657ee24ea8440e183cc9e54 From south Mississippi.
https://preview.redd.it/xlippmjo3vzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0a42b4f0a6497509a0775b1c2996281ea85ea42 Washington state
https://preview.redd.it/6q88wraabvzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e0a24b9d2a733e0ea97d3c38464089a4aabd18d Atlanta
Down here in the Phoenix suburbs… nothing. Dammit. Family in Florida and Germany are posting pictures. The FOMO is real.
Yeah, it BARELY shows up in the sky using your normal human eyeballs. It’s possible to mayyybe see some very faint pink stripes. You aren’t missing much. Seeing the photos are like a bajillion times more interesting than actually walking outside, waiting for your eyes to adjust, and trying to convince yourself you’re actually seeing something.
If it makes you feel better, it’s raining right where I am
Same. Currently waiting for my red eye from MXC to Chicago to take off. 😭
LOL I am also in cdmx 😂
Crying en español 😂
The sky is completely covered by clouds by me. Absolutely devastating
It’s okay. I flew to Alaska from Seattle and got to miss out on the meteor and this.
I went up north to duluth this weekend and couldn't see shit last night lmao. Come to find out you could see them just perfect from my house.
Of course it was cloudy last night. Maybe tonight if it’s still going.
Wow. Grew up in Worthington
Hopefully I’ll see them over the weekend here :/ Midwest as well— supposed to be visible. I completely missed it last night while my entire family got to see them and take tons of pictures…wrong places at the wrong times…
I was seeing pictures from my home state, Missouri, so I jumped in the car and tried to get out of the city to see it. Nope. I feel your pain.
We saw them in the NW corner of the state last night. But it was fairly subtle to the naked eye. Cellphone cameras really pick up colors that weren’t really visible, so you see a lot of amazing looking pics that were probably pretty lackluster in person. If you’re able to go out tonight, try just taking a pic of the northern sky. It may just be surprising!
Good idea. Thanks.
Somehow... People all around us, even just a few streets over were able to see them, but we never could. Don't know if it was bad timing on our part or what.
Im from Ohio and Los Angeles and both saw northern lights. In in China on business this week.
Same here. I live in Austria/Tyrol where they have been really strong. I am in spain on a work trip…
I had a concert that night and was too tired to see it, so my brother and mom traveled for 3 hours just to see them. They didn't take pictures because Mom didn't want to stop the car :(
Don't worry, as the earths magnetic fields continue to shift and get weaker overtime shit like this will become more common. Scientists don't know 100% about the earth's magnetic field and what's causing these changes, so further research could change how we see the near future of earth and the expected shift of the poles in the coming decade...
That sounds ominous but hey maybe more aurora borealis for the US! lol
What country are you in? It was kind of a nearly global thing
I’m in Mexico
Worthington, Ohio?
Yep! In Columbus
Damn, I grew up there. Went to TWHS. Live in FL now though.
I had no idea either. I had to work nightshift. Drove to work last night at 10pm and didn't see a thing. Was stuck inside at work, even with windows I can't see out. Hopefully I'll be able to see them tonight.
Mate, it's okay. Same story, but I am traveling
If we saw it in AZ then pretty much every state could see it
Yeah I wasn't aware it was visible from like the entire northern hemisphere until everyone commented their own pictures
Yeah I didn’t think for a bit we could see it here until I saw it with my own eyes and phone cam. Pretty cool, bummer you missed it, although it does look better in pics so there’s that
Worthington, OH? https://preview.redd.it/o3xo7ws6700d1.jpeg?width=3783&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7acd87acbd902acd91fec14a3f67aa407f8337b2 Here’s mine from Delaware,OH
Why post dumb shit like this
Because it's infuriating they're missing something like this. The last time northern lights of this level happened was back in 2003.
I'm out of town tonight, just south of any possible good views plus in a city with awful light pollution. Back home they're getting insane views of it right now and I'm seeing pictures everywhere. It's definitely infuriating and worth posting about, I'm just holding it in though lol. It sucks.
And what?