[mfish13]

Saw it a few years ago in Dike, Texas, and it was Blood Red.

[familyop]

"...so your chances at seeing northern lights are far better now than a year and a half ago when solar activity saw a steep decline during a protracted minimum."

That's pretty funny. Activity has been much lower in this maximum than the last and lower in the last before that one. We're in an extended minimum with activity continuing to decline.

"...but Denver’s in a much better location for an occasional auroral visit because the magnetic pole resides in Canada on the “North American side” of the globe."

Did the author run away from a group home? The magnetic pole is on the other side, in or very near Russia.

[familyop]

The north magnetic pole was still in the Canadian Arctic claim in 2009 but barely (84.9°N 131.0°W)--very close to the edge of that area. It was projected to be outside of that claim by sometime in 2012 (map, etc.).

[familyop]

WDC for GeoMag, Kyoto (magnetic pole position prediction through 2015 with map)
http://wdc.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/poles/polesexp.html

...and a dataset to compare.

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/data/poles/NP.xy

[Wildbill22]

Pretty common for pilots to see around the maximum, especially when flying around the 45th parallel and north.

I have seen them a few times, the most dramatic was a display that went from north, to overhead, to the south about 2/3 of the total sky, moving green and blue and reddish fingers. I was at 34,000 over northern North Dakota.