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Old 11-07-04, 11:58 PM   #1
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Northern Lights

On our drive tonight we saw the northern lights.

I have never ever seen them before. They came out a little bit for about ten minutes. Then they got really strong! I couldn't believe how intense the colors were....I have never seen anything like it before. They were also moving very fast, like a flag in the wind.

My camera picked up a lot of grainyness. But most of these photos are dead on with the colors...I'll point out which is most realistic to what we saw.

Very close to the colors but the blue over there was pink not purple or blue.
<img src="http://8snakes.myftp.org/marisa/images/northernlights.jpg">
Again, the green was that bright and same shade, but the blue was actually a pink.
<img src="http://8snakes.myftp.org/marisa/images/northern3.jpg">

<img src="http://8snakes.myftp.org/marisa/images/northern4.jpg">
The bright area on the bottom left is our car headlight :P
<img src="http://8snakes.myftp.org/marisa/images/northern5.jpg">
<img src="http://8snakes.myftp.org/marisa/images/northern6.jpg">

Directly above us the sky was super bright and really colorful. It was like this picture but not nearly so bright...not sure why the camera picked it up so grainey and bright.
<img src="http://8snakes.myftp.org/marisa/images/northern2.jpg">

I wish I had gotten GOOD pics but these will have to do until I get a new cam at christmas and see the lights again!

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Old 11-08-04, 12:01 AM   #2
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Aawww Marisa,

Those are awesome!!!!
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Old 11-08-04, 12:17 AM   #3
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Great pics Marisa - the norther lights are incredible to see and you got a really great show of them from the looks of those pictures!!

thanks for sharing,

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Old 11-08-04, 12:41 AM   #4
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Totally awesome!!
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Old 11-08-04, 12:42 AM   #5
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Those are some amazing pictures Marisa I wish there weren't so many bright lights were I live
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Old 11-08-04, 01:14 AM   #6
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See what happens when you leave Bradford and come visit me??
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Old 11-08-04, 01:19 AM   #7
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Wow the 3'rd picture down in the right of the picture looks to be a face of some kind Kinda creepy lol

Nice Pics
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Old 11-08-04, 01:36 AM   #8
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Incredible pics!!! This is by far my favorite natural phenomenon. There is nothing more beautiful.
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Matt- I don't have to leave Bradford!

My boyfriend caught this neat ones. They are moving SO fast right now above my house...it's amazing. They die down, then start up again.

<img src="http://8snakes.myftp.org/marisa/images/northern7.jpg">
<img src="http://8snakes.myftp.org/marisa/images/northern8.jpg">

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Old 11-08-04, 02:52 AM   #10
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Sooo cool! We get some pretty good ones out here in the winter but I've never seen green like in those first few pics!
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Old 11-08-04, 03:02 AM   #11
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Those first green ones were insane Tim! They only lasted about four minutes, but at the peak it was like an alien invasion for sure!!!

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Old 11-08-04, 05:12 AM   #12
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The grainyness of the photos probably has to do with the iso setting of the camera. Anything over 800 usually end up like that. If its just a point and shot camera with a night time setting its the same results.

Regardless cool pics
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wow.... hope to see those in person one day! Nice photos!!

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I second with Artemis, never seen one in person before.

Nice shots Marisa!
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Old 11-08-04, 09:49 AM   #15
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I have some neat pics of the northern lights... would show but they may incriminate me wink wink
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