Poking around flickr’s hot tags, I noticed that “auroraborealis” and “northernlights” were hot tags in the last 24hrs. It looks from the pictures corresponding to those tags are from Alaska, which is nice for them. I’m frustrated that I’ve been “north” for six years and have yet to see them. I could setup a feed on flickr pictures tagged “vancouver” and “auroraborealis”, but I suspect that will cheerfully let me know about them a day too late. Isn’t there’s a way to get notified when the northern lights are happening (I’d be happy to be woken up!)?
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by David Boddie
16 Dec 2006 at 08:21
http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/ may be a useful source of information.
Alternatively, you could periodically fetch the RSS feeds at http://www.solarmonitor.org/ and look for certain keywords. The contents of the feeds appear to be somewhat different, so one might be more useful than the other for the purpose of trying to predicting (guess?) whether an aurora may occur.
by Henry Miller
16 Dec 2006 at 10:15
Set Google news as your homepage, and make sure sunspot is a user news search. Aurora borealis is related to sunspot activity – whenever the above search suggests that something happened on the sun, expect aurora borealis that night (IIRC is takes 6 hours after an event is seen on the sun for aurora borealis to occur). By watching news from those who observe the sun you can get good clues when it will happen. Clues only, but they will help
by ChadL
16 Dec 2006 at 10:55
If Vancouver was further “north” you would have a better chance of seeing them. I have never seen them from Vancouver.
However, when you travel up to 100 Mile House or Prince George you will often see them.
by david
16 Dec 2006 at 11:26
Thanks all (except for Chad, that’s not that helpful =).