With so much filth and degeneracy on the Internet, it's refreshing to find a site you can watch without having to make excuses if your spouse catches you.
Courtesy of the Canadian Space Agency you can now watch live feeds of the aurora borealis -- the Northern Lights, for the Latin-challenged -- on AuroraMAX.
The launch of the online observatory coincides with aurora season in Northern Canada, which generally begins in late August or early September and ends in May.The light show starts after dusk local time. The AuroraMAX observatory is located in Canada's great white (mostly) north, at longitude 114°21'W and latitude 62°26'N, so local time would be...errr...around 8:30 p.m. PT or 11:30 p.m. ETT.
Presumably it will get earlier and earlier as we move towards the winter solstice. If you can't stay up, what you missed will be repeated on video the next day.
The online observatory is a collaborative initiative involving the Canadian Space Agency, the city of Yellowknife, Astronomy North and the University of Calgary. You see?
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