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A REAL AURORA FINALLY

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Our 2 night at Chena found us at last "in the money." That was quite
rare since auroras usually appear late at night and/or early in the

morning hours and we found ourselves called out at 8:30 p.m. How

cooperative could we have hoped the aurora would be? Gordon had

told us that such an early hour is most unusual and not to be expected.

Struggling to get into our warm clothes as fast as possible, we rushed
out into the night to find the sky ablaze with color above us! There

were "fountains" of green rising from the horizon. There were long

banners across the sky that twisted and turned and coiled around

themselves. There were glows on the horizon as well with both green

and reddish colors. The ribbons of color danced across the sky as we
had so hoped to see. The show was spectacular and moving as well.