I live in SE ontario, is the aurora ever visible here at any time of the year?

Yes! Visit Spaceweather to find out more about how you can get alerts when they are expected at your location.

Thanks jeff.

I also live in SE Ontario, and I've seen the aurora many times. Indeed, there have been times where it has been incredibly bright - you just need a little bit of luck, a nice dark sky, and an eye to the sky. I saw the aurora one night in Ottawa while working as a security guard - just happened to look up at the right time and noticed the lights.

The ground-based aurora! observations of dayside auroral forms provide complementary information with respect to these statistical studies of particle. As for the proton aurora observations from ground, optical instruments with much better resolution are now available.
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Good day ,

     While station  (Ft Wainwright)  in Alaska I was told by a native,  an Inuit/Eskimo. a  young man that he received a scar upon his face from exposure

to an aurora. He received  this scar as

child chasing and eventually, according to him catching a  ground reaching and 'bombarding' shower of light in the mountains - as he tells his own story

which left a dermal-skin scratch.

Anyone ever hear anything like this?

  thanks

 I've never heard of anyone being injured by an Aurora and can't imagine how anything like that could happen.