Depends. It can be as faint as a grey smudge or very very bright. Before this solar storm, I used to think the faded green was as good as it gets. Then I had a week of lights so bright and so fast moving you could easily film them with a phone. For the most part, they are quite faint. In the picture they weren’t too bright, but this is also relatively far south for aurora.
Jewbacca__420 t1_iwxty27 wrote
Dumb question, but does it really look like this with the naked eye? I've never seen one or asked that question.