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[extrapenguin]

I saw an aurora from my yard! \o/

(I mean, nothing will ever compensate for that time when there was an aurora powerful enough even the Greeks saw it ... and Finland was covered in cloud. But: aurora! Weak, but extant!)

Comments

[isis]

Wow! One of these days I want to go to where and when I might see the aurora.

[china_shop]

Oooh! That's awesome! What colours was it?

[extrapenguin]

Green-ish, but faint enough it appeared gray. I saw another one last night!

[pauraque]

How cool! I live near the USA-Canada border and the aurora is occasionally visible nearby, but I've never been lucky enough to see it.

[nnozomi]

Lovely! There's something especially pleasant about seeing natural phenomena from your own yard/veranda/etc., as if Nature has kindly provided home-delivery free of charge.
What's "aurora" in Finnish?

[extrapenguin]

Yes! It's such a wonderful thing to live in podunk: low levels of light pollution!

Aurorae are called "revontulet" in Finnish (sg "revontuli") – literally, fox fires. The myth is that they form when a firefox whose tail glows in the dark hops about cheerfully in the forest, creating sparks that become aurorae whenever its tail hits the trees.

[lannamichaels]

Awesome! :D

[tinny]

Awesome! I've never seen one in my life, and that's definitely on my bucket list of things I absolutely want to experience.

(I've seen a solar eclipse, though. \o/)