Kennis Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 not my photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 holy sh*t! awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo68 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 beautiful ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Bill Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 The Aurora Borealis!!! I've never seen it in person, but it is indeed magnificent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Hello! Saw aurora borealis in Sweden, but it wasn't like this. Fantastic! Cheers... Bence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Is there anything more beautiful than nature itself? We used to get some awesome Aurora Borealis in rural Michigan, but that was once in a blue moon and never this stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 I've seen it on occasion where I live, but not remotely that brilliant. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmer Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 waaaw, I know it exist but never saw it. Thanx for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jannusguy2 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 You are so lucky to have been able to see that.. just amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rogerb Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 That is drop-dead beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJScott Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 See it fairly frequently in rural western North Dakota, but very rarely that brilliant! Alaska in the winter is AWESOME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennis Posted November 16, 2012 Author Share Posted November 16, 2012 Most of my life I've lived in the south of Norway where the climate and geography is more similar to the north east coast of north America. About a year and a half ago I moved to Tromsø, which is just about as far north as the northernmost tip of Alaska, but the gulf stream slides right up along the coast of Norway making our climate remarkably mild with less extremes of cold and heat than where I used to live. And to experience phenomena like the Aurora on a regular basis, and the madness of frickin daylight at 2am all summer, and the scenery, is amazing! Love it here, and If you ever have a chance to visit, you wouldn't be disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 DJScott.... Hey, Don... welcome overall to the forums from almost straight south in your sister state. I'll wager you've flown the Powder River "range," so likely right over me... Also... You're far enough north to get a lot better view of the Aurora... Kennis... I used to know some folks whose grandparents came from Trondheim and the family kept the language. When they visited in Norway, nobody would believe they were Americans because their Norwegian had a Trondheim accent... m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJScott Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Milod... Yep, flown it often! In a B-52! Been here almost a year, just been busy and not posting too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 m, I googled images for the Powder River range. I don't expect it gets much prettier than in your area. You guys are lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Ziggy... Actually you've got the western side of things... I'm more on the southeastern end... and although I've lived in the Powder River country on the Bighorns eastern slope (see profile photo), now I'm on the edge where the Black Hills turn to high plains. Don was on B52s... the Powder River Range is a training area for the B1 and B52 ... and stuff... m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 no message Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Thanks for sharing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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milod Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Ziggy... Depending on where you are around town, both those latter pix that were there a moment or two were pretty close. A cupla miles north of town that's in a little valley, you can look across more than 30 miles to see Bear Butte and on a day with new-glass transparent air you can see as much of the radio antennas on the higher northern hills as your eyes will allow. Again... 30 or more miles. Some areas are hundreds of square miles almost as flat as a billiard table not dissimilar to a becalmed sea where the horizons are at maximum distances - but with dry washes cutting into the prairie you don't really see until right upon them. At other places it's a sea of grass with the waves of green-brown hills... I'll put up a pix or two when I get home tonight. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Gorgeous Milod no joke about how far you can see, I have a cabin that sit's at about 5400 ft elevation and looks out over the Mogollon Rim. I can see a microwave antenna that is pretty much 35miles away now that it's cold and the heat isn't rising to blur everything. Mogollon Rim from above Payson From a little higher perspective not my photo taken from the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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