Local midnight is usually the best time for aurora spotting but if a powerful geomagnetic storm develops bright auroras might be visible at any time of the night. A powerful X-class solar flare erupted Monday morning, Sept. 24th. Sky watchers should prepare for Northern Lights during the nights ahead. An interplanetary shock wave buffeted Earth's magnetosphere on Sept. 23rd, sparking a day-long geomagnetic storm at high latitudes. A solar wind disturbance swept past our planet between 0900 and 1300 UT on Sept. 23rd and triggered a geomagnetic storm.
Local midnight is usually the best time to look for auroras.
I think a combination of clouds and the Event shooed people away. Colebrooke, CT skies are the best non-desert skies I've seen. The milky way was bright as can be. There is a possible new novae in Sagitarius. We dont know much about this one yet, but usually these novae are cataclysmic.