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Friday, October 20th, 2006 07:09 pm
Aurora season has started with green hazy stuff, mostly concentrated in a ribbon perpendicular to the magnetic pole.

My brain is directionally challenged. Due to the orientation of the house I grew up in, my brain thinks north is just slightly north of east, and west is north. I have south down just fine, though, because that's where the sun is in November and February and isn't in December and January.

In other words, my brain thought the aurora ribbon ran north-south and didn't figure out its true direction (curving from northeast to west until I (after staring confusedly at the sky for a minute or two ) located the pole star.
Friday, October 20th, 2006 05:33 pm (UTC)
I've only seen the aurora once. It happened a couple of years ago, and was mostly just a green haze in the northern sky... but I did manage to see some flickering ribbons out of my peripheral vision.