I think it fades in and out so if you don't see it immediately don't worry. Also all the pics you see exaggerate it, not as pretty with the naked eye unfortunately.
Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch (and maybe big Northern Lights show)
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I'm super excited for this. Being near Seattle, we miss out on a ton of cosmic stuff but today is the second consecutive day of clear blue skies and it's supposed to continue into Sunday.
I'm in sw Iowa, this was from my phones night mode
Didn't see much to naked eye but nightmode got it through a window, need to go for a drive now
Read on an Ag site I follow that this guys hands free steering was not very straight today. Was the steering system messed up or was it the atmospheric issues? Would cars with hands free steering have problems today?
I was heading back into town just after 10, and there was a giant line of cars leaving Ankeny on Irvinedale. Everyone had the same idea to hit the gravel roads outside of town.
This was from our house around 9:30 in North Johnston (with an iPhone). Looked like faint lights in the sky with the naked eye. Gotta be the only sky phenomenon that looks better from a camera than the naked eye.
Well, we tried. Went out north of Indianola and then out on a gravel road in the middle of nowhere, but either the lights are showing up as haze to the naked eye, or there's too much haze to see them.
Satellite signals affected by solar storm. Seems like it was location dependent.
Did you take pictures? That’s how I could see them from my in-town backyard. We’re surrounded by trees with a street light out front.
Yes, a lot of hyperbole, but as you said a really big one could be catastrophic as much as we rely on electricity and electronic devices.
Carrington Event - Wikipedia
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This one in 1859 was before our reliance on electronics but was still a mess for telegraph service.
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