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Aurora borealis
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Aurora season is reopening

Season opens nowruns to April

Summer nights at this latitude are finally getting dark enough for northern lights again. From now until spring, every clear night is a candidate, and autumn is statistically one of the best aurora seasons of the year. Worth scouting your north-facing spot now, before the first good storm.

A pale green arc low in the north that seems to slowly breathe
Roughly 11 pm to 2 am on clear nights
Nose Hill's north side, or twenty minutes out of the city
No smoke haze, and a bright moon dims the show
SourcesNOAA Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts
equinox-season geomagnetic pattern (Russell-McPherron effect)
Photo: Keith E. Doucet · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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