Sorry you were unlucky during your trip. I've seen the sort you've described, but I can confirm what the other commenters are saying. It does look different fr

Sorry you were unlucky during your trip. I've seen the sort you've described, but I can confirm what the other commenters are saying. It does look different from most pictures, but that's because they usually don't resolve the fine structure (eg all the wikipedia photos on the aurora page are a little blurred, though the real thing sometimes looks blurred as well) and you don't get a feeling for the three-dimensionality. There are almost no good videos as well. The best I've seen was as bright as.. a half- to full moon with respect to how you see the ground/ease of moving around? (Hard to judge from memory.)