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Did you ever watch the sky just after sundown and see the aurora like shimmer in the sky?
Or Orion, the Pleades and Andromeda?
They look really weird, and you can see more stars than one normally would.
Then the OpFor would show up at AT to spoil it all..
AH, the memories of my days in Uniform.

We had the (binoc style)PNVS 5's.
But teh best was watching the sky shimmer like shining moving cellophane. Would have loved to have hooked them up to a (vid)camera and taken a pic. Probably would have been a good image to use.

I never tried that, usually we were moving around dusk and it always seemed like we didn't get set up in the AA until around 2300 hrs. I'm not an astronomy buff so I don't know about the constellations you mentioned but I do remember looking through nods and being amazed at how many stars are really up there. It was fun being able to see satellites really easily also. I don't know if the aurora is visible in central Oregon, what state did you see it from? These days I think about the good times in the scouts and miss it, but then I think about the 3 day field drills without a wink of sleep and dragging myself out of bed at 5 am to go to my real job (that pays the mortgage) and I'm glad I'm now in the Air Guard instead. (otherwise known as the Gentleman's military)