Again, I hate to sound, in your words, jaded, but those are "cute", and, no, not really what I mean. Those shots convey a tiny fraction of the best aurora I have seen. Kim posted on Friday some of his memories of the display of March 30-31, 2001- that's the "Big One", I believe, that I referred to. Yes, pretty much most of the entire sky, horizon to horizon, pulsating colors. Yellow, red, green, white, purple. Shimmering curtains, rays, glowing patches, changing and morphing in a constant dance of electric explosions of color. Like the whole sky was a huge, moving UV poster in a head shop, Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds on a cosmic scale. And it literally swamped the light pollution over the valley. So please, I ask forgiveness if lesser displays can't pry me out of bed.

From: Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> You mean like this - CME 10/23/2004 Little Mtn.

Or maybe looking through your binoculars and seeing 30 degree glowing spheres appearing and disappearing every 30 seconds like this -

CME 2005/05/15 Little Mtn.

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