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Viewing Northern Lights (the full colors) - Bogleheads.org

bluebolt wrote: Not necessarily. When I saw the lights, they were whitish/gray to the naked eye. It's certainly possible to see the colors, but ...

Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora - Hacker News

Yeah, typically northern lights look like faint white clouds with a little bit of green tint to naked eye. The photos are like those time- ...

Viewing a thread - Northern lights for us in the east - AgTalk

The cones see color but only brighter light. Usually the Aurora Borealis is too dim for the eye's cone detectors. Tonight was the exception.

Northern Lights: An Eye vs Camera Comparison - Aurora Academy

How does the Northern Lights look like with the naked eye? It's breathtaking, unlike anything you've seen before. The northern lights appear as an ever-changing ...

Viewing the northern lights with binoculars in LP skies - Cloudy Nights

- The size of even a very compact patch of aurora is usually larger than the field of most any bino, and as such is already well large enough ...

Colors of northern lights - Do we see them as in photos? - Salamapaja

One reason is the difference between the camera and our eyes. Our night vision is limited and not as colorful, the camera doesn't have the same ...

Seeing the Northern Lights with the naked eye - YouTube

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Northern Lights: What Do They Really Look Like? - Life in Norway

There's no doubt that the aurora borealis is a wonderful natural phenomenon. But that's just it. It is natural. That means there is always going ...

How do the Northern Lights appear in different colours? - Aurora Zone

The majority of auroral displays are predominantly green for two reasons, the first of which is that the human eye detects green more readily than other ...

Don't Make This Mistake When Trying to Find Northern Lights in ME

Can you see the Northern Lights to the naked human eye? ... The long scientific answer is technically yes, but you really can only see the faded ...

PHOTOS: Northern Lights as seen across Northern California - KCRA

Chuck Hansen shared this image from Eagle Lake in Spaulding. He said the lights were not visible to the naked eye for them, but showed up in ...

The Northern Lights for Dummies | Guide to Iceland

What is true is that if you have a good camera, and use a long aperture and the right ISO setting, then you can capture light on the camera that the naked eye ...

How Cameras Reveal the Northern Lights' True Colors (Op-Ed)

The simple answer is because human eyes can't see the relatively "faint" colors of the aurora at night.

Northern lights in New Hampshire: Photos show gorgeous display

In dark environments, light-sensitive rods in our eyes are more active, but they don't perceive color, so the aurora might look gray. If it ...

Northern Lights | When and where to see the Aurora Borealis

Most commonly the aurora seen will be green or whitish, but depending on the strength of the activity, pinks and reds are also visible to the naked eye. The ...

Can You See The Colour of the Aurora With Your Naked Eye?

To say you can't see the colour of the aurora with the naked eye is a false statement it's simply not true but ...

Northern Lights visibility - Eye VS Camera - Lumyros

Sometimes Aurora can't be seen with the naked eye because its activity is just too low. · During the low Aurora, its colour, as visible to our ...

10 Things No One Ever Tells You About Northern Lights

And it is VERY rare to see colours with the naked eye, so look for anything that looks like a light grey cloud moving across the sky in strange patterns, DO NOT ...

What are the Northern Lights? | Science Behind the Aurora Borealis

To our eyes, the colours of the aurora can appear subtle. We are particularly sensitive to green, which is the most common color seen during auroral displays, ...

Why Are You Not Supposed to Look at the Northern Lights? - Medium

The notion that looking at the Northern Lights poses a risk to your eyes is untrue. Aurora Borealis is a natural phenomenon caused by charged particles from ...