Canton Resident Captures Northern Lights Images

Canton residents Sarah and Brian Fotovich were among the lucky people who saw the Northern Lights Monday evening.

"It was about 9:30 last night," Sarah wrote in an email to Canton Patch. "We watched them for about 10 minutes."

She also grabbed her cellphone and used the camera to snap a photo. She said the lights were most visible in the west-northwest area of the sky over Canton. The 1996 graduate said she and her husband Brian (a 1995 grad) have lived most of their lives in the township, except for a stretch of "about five years" when they lived further north.

"I wish I had pics from when we lived up north," she wrote, "but at that time, I wasn't sure what I was seeing! I really hope to see them again and next time get better pictures!"

The lights, also known as Aurora Borealis, occur when solar winds brush the Earth's magnetic field, but generally the lights are most visible closer to the North and South Poles, according to the science blog, www.spaceweather.com, which is reporting that the phenomenon was visble in about half the U.S. states.

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