Damn..... wanted to watch the lights.... but can't really help it as i am living somewhere near the equator :P

no worries

:P I just found a cosplay pic of Hurcle from DBZ & he looks soo dang funny lol.

oh ok.

The aurora can be really spectacular here, but I see them at a low intensity so often I almost take them for granted. Usually when I see the northern lights they're a pale green slowly wavering and pulsing across the sky. Every so often though they really put on a show, bright yellows and blues, neon reds, even purple... a silent fireworks show lasting for minutes or hours, both in slow motion and manic strobe formats.
Here's lyrics from a local song about them:
http://www.explorenewfoundlandandlabrador.com/newfoundland-music/northern.htm
it's not so good to listen to, but it's a nice poem, written by Don Fulford (as he didn't get credit on the link i gave)

I found a picture of the northern Lights. here is the picture's link.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/photogallery/misc/aur110904.jpg

wow thats quite amazing wouldn't mind having that to look at come night.

Pictures ,good idea! too bad my camera dosent have a long enough exposure setting.
when they're active, 80% of the tme they look more or less like this: http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/aurora/images2003/13oct03/Jussila2.jpg
then they get stronger , like this:
http://www.town.fort-smith.nt.ca/tngallery/pages/northern%20lights%20river_jpg.htm
and every so often you'll get a really great show like these:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020815.html
http://www.rocketroberts.com/astro/images/aurora_csp12_web.jpg
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/images/aurora9.jpg

this one was taken at the Sheboygan marsh here in wisconsin.

...so pretty! o.o

that it is

my teacher used to live in tasmania (south of aussie) and she saw the northern lights all the time and when she moved to queensland (north aussie) she showed us all the pictures

in Australia, you would of seen. Southern Lights :)

i have a uncle who lives in yukon and is always mailing us a load of pics of the northern lights. there sooo cool looking, inuit legend says that if u whistle while u can see the lights, the lights will snatch u up and u would never come back again. i dare some one to whistle if they see the lights:bg:

that is the legend...the lights snatch your soul and it's gone forever....but I have whistled, nothing happened....yet.