Timeline for What are the chances to see the Northern Lights in East Canada in December?
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| Jun 14, 2020 at 19:51 | comment | added | Michael Seifert | @DavidRicherby: in addition to the issue of dark skies, the frequency of aurora is more determined by your geomagnetic latitude than your geographic latitude. Since the geomagnetic pole is in the Canadian Arctic, Moosonee is closer to the geomagnetic poles. | |
| Dec 4, 2018 at 22:58 | answer | added | Relaxed | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 4, 2018 at 21:48 | comment | added | Kate Gregory | @DavidRicherby yes: the skies are dark. I've seen the lights in Algonquin Park, much further south. | |
| Dec 4, 2018 at 17:47 | comment | added | David Richerby | Moosonee is at basically the same latitude as London (UK), and Smooth Rock Falls is a couple of degrees farther south. It's very unusual to see the aurora at that sort of latitude in the UK, even from places with way less light pollution than London. Is there something different about Canada? | |
| Dec 4, 2018 at 13:54 | comment | added | TravelLikeBeaker | There are some phone apps you can use too which will give you alerts if they are in your area. I used "My Aurora Forecast & Alerts" for the iPhone. Not sure if it's available for android. When I got alerted, I went outside and presto, there they were! | |
| Dec 4, 2018 at 13:54 | answer | added | Gerard Ashton | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 4, 2018 at 12:14 | history | edited | Michael Seifert |
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| Dec 4, 2018 at 12:08 | comment | added | gerrit | To close-voter: this is not opinion-based. It can be answered based on the statistics of the frequency of occurrence of the northern lights and of clear skies, along with a light pollution map. Whether such data are readily available is a different question, but it is, in principle, objectively answerable. The only subjective part is what constitutes "eastern Canada". Does that include southern Nunavut? | |
| Dec 4, 2018 at 5:45 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 4, 2018 at 3:26 | comment | added | Michael Seifert | Note that there are no roads to Moosonee; you have to fly in and out, or take a 5-hour train ride from Cochrane (which is itself a 7.5-hour drive from Toronto.) | |
| Dec 4, 2018 at 1:49 | history | edited | Giorgio | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 4, 2018 at 0:07 | history | asked | Hans Tausend | CC BY-SA 4.0 |