Aurora Borealis whitness

  For the last two months, we have been having a high Aurora Borealis activity, or Northern Lights, as people call it. However, it has been happening late at night or being visible only if you go a little bit more towards the country far from the city's lights. I live in Canada for almost 6 years and since I have been here couldn't witness this amazing natural event, despite of not being so uncommon. The problem is that I have small children, so driving around in the middle of the night is not a good idea, maybe when they are older we can start to wonder out to hunt the Northern Lights.

  However on the last March 23rd night (here in the Mountain Time) there was the strongest solar storm in the last 6 years. And even people in New Mexico could observe the event. The storm caused disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field. This disturbance doesn't cause much trouble to us here on Earth. It looks like it is only a problem for those leaving into space travel. We notice these beautiful colors at the night because of that. Another curious thing, only the North Hemisphere is blessed with this event. The answer is that Aurora Borealis only happens in the North, however, in the South, we have the Aurora Australis, which is the same thing with a different name.

  It is interesting to think also about what causes these disturbances in our magnetic field, which is nothing more than coronal mass projections from the Sun, which are nothing more than electrified gases that travel at a high speed reaching us in here

  A tip to try to visualize the Aurora is downloading a phone app called "Aurora". This app notifies you when there is a high Aurora Activity in your area. It usually also warns you when there is a forecast to watch it on the same day. So what happened is that on March 23rd I received an alert at almost 9 PM saying that there was high activity, so I went down from my bedroom and went to my backyard. With "naked eyes" I couldn't see much, so I used the other tip, using a camera, in my case my iPhone 13, so I could see these green stains in the sky and got excited as in the picture below.

Using iPhone 13 at 8:58 PM

  Only with this image I got so excited that I ran to call my wife that was almost asleep. After I convinced her to come downstairs in her PJs we started to see the real magic like in the pictures below:

Using iPhone 13 at 9:12 PM

Using iPhone 13 at 9:13 PM

  I saw people sharing better pictures, some friends from my town. But I was satisfied. If I die today I can say that I saw once this event. And it is magical for sure. I wish I had a better camera, and also if I could run from the lights, especially in my backyard which has lots of lights would be so cool. Maybe next time.