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I've never seen anything more than a glow through cloud. But I did get an excellent clear view of the 1999 total eclipse while in Germany.

I love that you're still a sweet dude and doing the most human stick figures the world has known. <3

Depending on the scale of your x-axis, this might align with the sunspot cycle 😁

didn't catch it this time, but in 2024 and 2025 it was exactly like this. keep watching.

So far I've only ever seen a faint glow when I have my camera with me. Sans camera I've seen some amazing displays. Sigh.

I want to see one from space.

The tingly moment when you go to "oh wow ..."

I’m so sorry to hear. That happened to me in 1999. Sucks.

Also applicable to meteor showers.

That was exactly our experience on Tuesday evening of January 20 2026. Things would be relatively calm, then you'd have a spike of activity and we take as many photos as we could while marvelling at the show with our eyes.

The real reason Trump wants Greenland.

Those 10 minutes are so amazing!

They seem to purposefully avoid me at this point. Whenever there is supposed to be an aurora, there isn't one. It always happens when every type of news organisation/blog is silent about it and it goes unheard of, until I'm barraged with aurora photos next morning.

Very true & was validated on Monday. :-)

I must have used up all my celestial wonder credits on the spectacular total eclipse Every promising aurora since (that I caught notice of) has been obscured by clouds

I'm not sure if I'll ever need this information, but I'm glad I have it just incase

Yeah a noticeable but very dim red tint in the sky for 3 hours turned into this for less than 10 minutes in AZ

Title text: "I've had countless nights where the line never left the bottom zone of the graph, but the few moments where it's climbed all the way to the top have made up for them all." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3196#Transcript