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How do you get the Aurora in Idaho and we don’t in Manchester when we’re about 10° further North than you?
The Northern Lights
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idahoblues
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Not sure, maybe just clearer skies ? Maybe elevation ? I'm not even in the Northern part of the State
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The best display I've ever seen was in Northants when I was growing up
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We dont have northern lights down saff because we have one of Europe's biggest light polluter. It can be seen for miles and our little village glows orange. Its amazing what big companies can get away with.
This bottom picture is like the view from where we live.
This bottom picture is like the view from where we live.
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Although Manchester is closer to the geographic north pole, Idaho may be closer to the magnetic north pole (which is in northern Canada) and it is the charged particles being funnelled in to the magnetic poles that causes the aurora. Plus you probably have far better chances of dark skies in Idaho than Manchester which makes it easier to see.
We don't get to see it in Manchester because it's always pissing down when it decides to play out.
Plus we don't have proper darkness as we live in an Amber coloured world at night because of all the light pollution
Plus we don't have proper darkness as we live in an Amber coloured world at night because of all the light pollution
Gremlin
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Looks like some of the ones my brother has done. He lives in Tassie as well.
Yep we get great displays of the Southern Lights (Aurora Australis).
Hobart is 42 degrees south (about the same latitude as Bordeaux)
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Possibly on the horizon from about 9pm if the sky is clear in the North. Predicted to be coming down to about 60 deg N overhead.