Down here in Southern Maryland... by Naval Air Station Pax River, we
were out last night having our running club holiday run and the entire
sky from the NW to NE was a redish glow. Then it started streaking
and move more to the NE, then a big glob of green formed then the
entire thing started to fade away after a hours of so. Nice to see
this far South (~50-60 miles South of DC).

Cheers
Collin


"JJK" wrote in message ...
Just NW of DC in Darnestown, MD, the aurora was spectacular.

Bright red diffuse glow in the NW to NE, and for a short period to nearly
the Zenith.

Bright white "searchlight" rays extending from the North to the Zenith.
(these did not last very long)

Blue-green cloud like structures were evident, even as far South as
Ophiucus.

At one moment, the sky around Pleiades was bathed in a diffuse brilliant
red-orange light with blue diffuse "clouds" near the open cluster. The sky
to the NNW was so bright, it almost looked like early daylight.


"R. Martin" wrote:
About the best I could see at a couple of different times from just
north of DC was a diffuse reddish glow, extending to maybe 15 to 20
degrees. The only reason I could tell it from the light pollution
is that I went out later and there appeared to be less light pollution,
and a less reddish tint to what there was. Oh well, better than most
aurora this far south, near a city.