Northern lights heading south

By SELENA ROSS, Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald Green and red northern lights were on rare display across the Maritimes on Friday night, the start of a few years’ worth of similar shows expected from an upswing in solar activity.

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"Anybody in Nova Scotia who was awake, outdoors, looking to the north . . . away from bright lights, would have seen that display," said Roy Bishop, a retired astronomy and physics professor at Acadia University who saw the lights from Evangeline Beach, near Wolfville. Observers in rural areas described a green glow starting at about 10 p.m., as soon as daylight had dimmed completely. The lights began to look as if they were slowly moving, and red bars appeared across them, the observers said. More...