Beauty Burns In The Night Sky
October 22, 1999
Last night around 1:30am, while listenting to the Art Bell radio show, Art discovered that there was major solar activity happening. He then pointed out that this meant in most northern latitudes, you could see North Lights (Aurora Borealis). Callers from as far south as Kansas and Maryland reported seeing brilliant red, white, even green lights showing off in the sky.
A caller from downtown Vancouver (my city) reported seeing lovely red lights in the sky. I got out of bed, ran to the window and glanced outside. Sadly, the streetlamps overpowered the skylights. However, going upstairs, from my old room, I did notice a lot of reddish, whitish streaks, almost parallel to each other covering up the sky. Of course, having never experienced aurora borealis before (a rarity in vancouver), I wasn’t sure if those streaks were the lights or clouds. I dismissed them as clouds but most of you will remember that yesterday was a beautiful clear day. I regret that I missed such a fabulous event. This gives me another incentive to live out in rural areas.
I love the sky.
Well, below is a picture from Issaquah, Washington (taken 10/21/99), which is located about 20 miles east of Seattle. This picture is taken from the Art Bell website. Not sure if it’s copyrighted or anything. If it is, I’ll immediately take it down. You must see this, it’s unbelievably beautiful.
