PHOENIX (AZFamily/AP) — Arizonans got see quite the sight in the night sky on Tuesday night thanks to powerful solar systems.

Photos started to flood into the First Alert Weather Facebook page and the Arizona’s Family Facebook inbox about the northern lights they saw. From Seligman to Cottonwood to New River, viewers were pretty excited to see the phenomenon.

A couple of them said they could see the northern lights with the naked eye. But for the best pictures, night mode was needed to see the bright red colors in the sky.

Solar storms are ranked G1 to G5, weak to strong, and according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it was a G4 category storm that helped get the northern lights visible in Arizona. In fact, the northern lights weren’t forecasted to be visible in

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