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sheshe2

(83,710 posts) Mon Oct 3, 2016, 05:20 PM Oct 2016

Stunning Time-Lapse Captures The Northern Lights In All Their Glory

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Though the video is only 27 seconds long, it captures 30 minutes’ worth of changing lights, according to the video’s uploader.

During last week’s aurora borealis, the city of Reykjavik turned off streetlights in many neighborhoods for one hour.

Officials also encouraged residents to darken their homes to help increase visibility, NPR reported.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/northern-lights-time-lapse_us_57f16bd5e4b082aad9bbd7e6?section=&

Awesome. Nature at it's best. Incredibly powerful.

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Stunning Time-Lapse Captures The Northern Lights In All Their Glory (Original Post) sheshe2 Oct 2016 OP

When I was stationed in Iceland, we would stand in the parking lot and watch the lights Siwsan Oct 2016 #1

I've seen them once like that, here in rural MI. longship Oct 2016 #2

I kept replaying. sheshe2 Oct 2016 #3

utterly beautiful. thank you so much for sharing!! niyad Oct 2016 #4

Impossibly beautiful. Thanks. n/t Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #5

Siwsan

(26,256 posts)

1. When I was stationed in Iceland, we would stand in the parking lot and watch the lights

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Mon Oct 3, 2016, 05:27 PM

Oct 2016

Or even just turn off the lights in our rooms, and watch out the windows.

It never, ever, ever got old.

longship

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2. I've seen them once like that, here in rural MI.

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Mon Oct 3, 2016, 06:11 PM

Oct 2016

There was very active solar activity and the aurora was intense and went south of the zenith at this latitude (just south of the 45th parallel).

It was an extraordinary night and the aurora went on for hours. Lots of intense flashing and color curtains weaving across the whole northern sky.