What exactly does the Aurora Borealis' movement look like in real life? All the movies I found on YouTube are accelerated movies. They are very beautiful, but I want to know what the lights looks like for real. Do they just look static, or can you see them move?
Here's an example of an accelerated movie:
I've lived in North Central Canada, North Eastern Canada and Northern Maine and have seen many auroras from sheets to wheel and spokes, green yellow and blue.
The motion can range from very slow and sluggish, to fairly active and smooth or jerky motion very much perceptible to the human eye.
They never move like the movies show.
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It looks so pretty...
I'd never been anywhere near where you can see it.
Maybe I'll go to Alaska some day.
in 96 i was in ancorage visiting my brother, I watched these lights with childlike attention. They truely are the most beautiful natural occurance on earth. Imagine lying on your back only to see the ocean waves above you, constantly changing shape size color speed it looked as though they were chasing each other just to become the others colors or to travel like the one befor it. Way cool, a flight to alaska isnt much anymore maybe you could go for a weekend around the first of the year in anc. was almost everynight occ. if you go and have children dont leave them with the sitter take them it is great to witness them a memory you cannot forget.
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