Finally, There Are Lights Out, No Clouds, And I'm In Anchorage

 @AuroraNotify posts photos people take of Northern Lights.  In Anchorage we can see them start early in the day from Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, then Canada.  But this fall/winter, it was usually cloudy when there were supposed to be good lights.  

And then we were out of town gramping when there were good lights and clear skies in Anchorage..  

But tonight had good lights predicted and clear skies.  I went out on the deck several times for about 15 minutes each.  You look up and it's like there are faint wisps of cloud, but you can see stars through the wisps and they move. 

The fourth time I went out the faint wisps exploded.  These pics are from my iPhone.  What I saw was much, much brighter but not as colorful.  The phone picks up things my eyes don't.  But here are a few sudden bursts of light right over the deck.  

This all happened in about five minutes or less.  And then things went back to faint gauzy ghosts floating and shapeshifting in the sky.