Thank you! Yea it was insane to see the northern lights in-person considering I’ve never been North of Buffalo, NY.

The lights kept fading then surging, with nothing really all that strong — but then the sky lit up with this and it was absolutely stunning!

Here’s another shot about 90^o to the right!

And another that was directly overhead!

I’m not an astronomer/astrologist, but as far as I’m aware, this isn’t due to the Earth’s magnetic field weakening; instead the string of aurora borealis events we had last year are attributed to especially strong geo-magnetic storms as a result of heightened (near-peak) solar activity.

Just like Earth, the Sun has its own “seasons” where the amount of energy and radiation it outputs varies and cycles from “decreased”, or low, and “increased”, or high, every 7 years or so.