here's hoping for a break in the clouds

[spincast]

Ok all you photo buffs - lets see what we can caputre

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/northern-lights-auroras-expected-after-2-huge-solar-flares-erupt-1.2763354

 

 

 

[BillM]

Would be nice, but the cloud cover is crazy tonight. I was going to drive up to the Parry Sound area so I could get some good clean black sky looking north but the cloud cover would make that just a huge waste of time.

Edited September 12, 2014 by BillM

[Dave Bailey]

There is a general rule among Toronto area astronomers: If there's something neat going on, Toronto will be clouded out. I can remember, years ago, the Toronto chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada checked the records of weather and astronomical events, and the number of cloud-outs here was well above random chance. I'm not implying some sort of supernatural malevolence, but I don't bother getting excited any more.