It might be back tomorrow if you missed it tonight!
I hope it is back tomorrow night. I was tending to a screaming toddler the whole time so I missed it.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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I believe it should be. I'm 8 timezones away but our news said yesterday:
expected to arrive as early as today and to persist through until Sunday.
Crossing my fingers. Saw someone post a pic an hour ago from Eastern Oregon. So far I have not seen anything tonight and the probability is shrinking.
Just watched it for about an hour. Absolutely stunning.
How the hell. I'm in Seattle and watched it and it was so faint, barely visible at all. You wouldn't have even noticed it if you weren't looking for it.
Surprisingly, even mid-tier phone cameras can take amazing pictures when the naked eye can barely see anything. To me, it looked like barely visible wispy gray-green clouds, but the pictures on my phone are far more vibrant.
Couldn't see shit from my place. Was I looking in the wrong direction? At the wrong time? Or is there just too much light pollution on my street?
Probably too much light pollution. Unless you're far away from any light it's difficult to see with the naked eye. Try taking a picture with a long exposure (just a couple seconds should do it). You'll want to be looking North and they can change in intensity through the night but I was able to get some good photos around 11:30.
What time and direction?
Randomly from 10 to 2, north, west, and south.
Hmm, odd. Must've been light pollution, as I was able to pretty clearly see them north, west, east, and right above at around 11:20.
Yeah, there's a lot of light pollution in and around this neighborhood.
I'm not sure, there was a ton of light pollution where I was at. It was all over the sky in every direction and moved around.
When?
After it started getting dark. It was very vivid around 10:30ish to 11:30 or so. I went to sleep after that though, so it might've gotten brighter. I was checking periodically earlier but wasn't seeing anything til it suddenly became visible.
It came and went where I was. It was difficult to see with street lights so we went to a nearby football pitch which was dark and could see it then.
Phones definitely making it look better than the eye sees it.
Edit: look North
Also posting this: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast
It shows the space weather forecast. I think it was G4 last night.
Green and flowy up on top of Jefferson Park last night…
Amazing. I'm down in Portland and a buddy reported seeing it here as well. Gonna try tonight.
There’s quite a crowd of eager aurora watchers at Carkeek Beach at 10:30, but no light show yet.