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Re:Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in Englan... by rtkwe on Sunday February 26, 2023 @09:58PM (#34952403)
I'm going up to Alaska this summer with my in-laws and the one thing I'm super sad about is I definitely won't be able to see them.
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Re:Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in Englan... by throwntoday on Sunday February 26, 2023 @10:02PM (#34952428)
On the plus side you get to enjoy the midnight sun. It's a pretty unique experience. And now you have an excuse to visit again!
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Re:Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in Englan... by humanizersequel on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:36PM (#34953003)
Not quite midnight sun, but one of the most magical experiences of my life was staying up all night on the side of a proglacial river and watching the sun go down... just to have it come up again an hour or so later a couple mountains to the right. It never even fully went down, which is why I never fully went to sleep.
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Re:Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in Englan... by Broken_Hippo on Monday February 27, 2023 @08:48AM (#34956322)
I live in such an area. The sun technically goes down for a few hours every night in the summer - but it stays just below the horizon. I can read outside at night, and it is more akin to night being a few hours of early sunset that bleeds into late sunrise.

It was honestly more magical 9 or 10 years ago when I first got here, but I still enjoy it.

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Re:Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in Englan... by rtkwe on Monday February 27, 2023 @09:14AM (#34956606)
It'll be about 20-ish hours of daylight I think with the rest being civil twilight. I'm only making it as far north as Fairbanks on this trip.
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