[Darksheare]

Cool, that is a neat pic.
Last time an aurora was visible in my area and wasn't behind clouds, my glasses needed strengthening, so all I saw was a fuzzy blob.

[Sundog]

Darks,

Here is a pic of the Aurora over an Alaskan town, when it is all over the sky.
Now remember these things are moving like big waves on a beach.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970101.html

Here is the search that Astronomy Pic of the Day gives for looking up Aurora.

http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?aurora+AND+Earth

the shuttle photo of the aurora looks like this: