Honestly robin_wright, probably both. The edit was a bit much, but those specific numbers were bound to start something.

Got a great view of them from Fairbanks in late September a few years back. The key is solar activity and a dark sky, not the temperature. I was surprised how bright they were that early in the fall. It's a total myth that you have to wait for deep winter.

Remember when everyone used those red vinyl overlay sheets for revisions? We had a junior guy who would go nuts with five different colored pens for markups. The final prints looked like a toddler's art project after a sugar rush. The PM finally made a rule, black for deletions, blue for additions, nothing else.

Totally agree with @ericfox, nature finds a way.

Following the rules is one thing, reading the manual is another.