I went to Disney world once and Epcot twice I think before I was 12. Grandparents had a beach house so it wasn’t a big trip when we were already down there. Plus in the 90s it didn’t cost an arm and a leg. I remember liking Epcot more because “future world” stuff was much more fascinating to me than Disney characters.
If you live in in northern states or Canada, there's an aurora tonight. Took this 10 minutes ago: Spoiler
I keep seeing folks on the local Facebook groups sharing pics and get jealous. I need to stargaze tonight. Seeing the northern lights is definitely on my bucket list.
My sister in law told my wife when she was getting hers that HER doctor told her that they're supposed to be replaced about every 10 years. That being said, my SiL has had hers for about 20 years and they're still the originals.
Jägerette had a coughing fit at 4 am waking us up, and I looked out the window and saw we had the first break in the clouds in days:
To the people that have seen them in traditional spots, Alaska or Canada, historically, is it always just a light hazy glow that looks much cooler on film? I saw them last night and they were more prominent than they were over the summer but still just a light aura. Definitely neat and a bucket list item I can cross off but wondering if the traditional northern range gets to see the more defined laser light show detail with their naked eyes? I got some shots with my phone and it looks much cooler than what I experienced without it.
All of this regressive shit that has been making waves over the past decade bothers me on a visceral level— adult daycare/sleepovers, re-watching “Saturday morning cartoons”, building enclosed gaming rigs to completely close you in from the world, etc— shit like that gives me nausea. Grow the fuck UP. Tell me how these people are not trolling themselves with this behaviour, and to add insult to injury they proudly post it all on line as if to say “Look at how cool I am.”
They bounce around like disco lights, usually— changing in colour and shape constantly. They are truly an incredible thing to see for the first time because you think in the photos you see that they keep still. Once you get up to mid- Ontario (Sudbury) you see them quite a bit at night.
We went out last night to try to see the tsuchinshan-atlas comet, and got surprised by the best northern lights show I've seen this far south. Didn't see the comet, picked a bad spot with too much light pollution from town.
I wonder what the overlap is with the people that bitch about having shitty jobs, don't have friends and have mental health issues. Unclear on which one is the cause of the other. Another version of this are the people are still partying every weekend like they did in their 20s as they approach 40. I'll be 40 in two years, most of my friends have families and kids now. One that doesn't has a fiance that thinks the rest of us or lame because we have kids and shit and we don't want to get fucked up until 2AM. People seem to have a really hard time moving on to new phases of life.
Yes, it's always a hazy glow that needs a camera to bring out the intense colors. That said, the more intense the aurora, the more clear the colors and shapes are to the naked eye - so further north you definitely get better definition and color. I've never seen as much red in the sky as I saw last night. I did my best to desaturate this image to reflect what I was seeing with my eyes last night, so here's a before-and-after. Note that the color from the camera is just a result of the longer exposure - no false color or extreme saturation was added to the captured image. I literally had to edit the captured photo to remove the color the camera saw, to show what it looked like to the naked eye: Here's about what it looked like to the naked eye: And here's what the camera captures: