LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Thanks to a solar storm, people from all across the country have been able to watch the sky change colors.

The fun started Friday night and should continue into Sunday morning.

"I've always been kind of a weather nerd and a space nerd. And so I was right up my alley," Zane Gray, who's from Bardstown, said.

IMAGES | Northern Lights visible around Kentuckiana on Friday

Catching a glimpse of the Northern Lights has always been a bucket list item for so many people.

"I stayed up till about 12:30, and then I have my alarm set to check it out again at 2:30 a.m. just to see if anything was different," Gray said. "It was a little different because it was more of the paints earlier on and then later on 2:30 that's when I got some greens and stuff. So it was pretty cool."

This weekend, for thousands of Americans, their dream finally came true, just not in the way they expected.

"It was amazing," Tiffany Crone said. "I never thought I'd be able to to see them from here."

"I'm just so happy that I could just go outside of my house and Bardstown and see it," Gray said. "That's such a cool, unique experience."

Friday night in Bardstown, Elizabethtown, Bradenburg and even French Lick, Henryville and Corydon, families had a chance to see the sky change colors from their homes.

"It was beautiful," Brandenburg resident Melissa Farley said. 

"I did not expect them to be as as bright as they were honestly," Caitlin Pedigo, a Corydon resident, said.

Pedigo watched with her son Tryton at the end of their driveway for a couple of hours.

"It was worth getting up, especially all the pictures we got," Tryton Dean, who is 13-years-old, said.

The bright purple, green and pink hues of the Northern Lights came on the heels of the Solar Eclipse.

"I was in awe. It was beautiful," Crone said.

"Any kind of strange phenomena going on, I'm there. I'm checking it out," Gray said.

"Around here in Corydon we do not get to see a lot of the big deals, unless we go somewhere, so I think it's pretty cool we get to see that stuff," Dean said.

Some people are calling both a gift from space.

"I would've loved to have gone to Alaska, but here I am in southern Indiana and got to see it from my backyard," Crone said.

As of 9:40 p.m. Saturday, the best time to see the lights in Louisville starts at about 5 a.m. and lasts until about 8 a.m. Sunday morning.

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