Taking photos of displays...

[der Mouse]

> Man, I have got to get me down to Antarctica some day.  I'm sure this
> is a really stupid question, bit is that greenish glow really what it
> looks like in real life?  Amazing!

Well, I've never been to Penguin Central.  But I spent six months in
Tromsø, in northern Norway, and while they didn't look green to the
naked eye, the auroras there were even more spectacular, in some
respects, than what's in those pictures - in particular, they covered
far more of the sky.  The most spectacular time I recall, I was looking
out a window and thus could see only about half the sky, but in that
half, from the zenith to about some 30°-45° down towards the horizon
was basically covered in these spectacular sheets of light.

I don't know why they didn't look coloured.  Perhaps because the light
level was too low for much colour vision?

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