Hi Ginger,

I don't collect things that have the Sun on them as a hobby, but I have been collecting aurora photographs and other things related to the aurora. I guess this kind of makes sense since I'm more of a magnetospheric physicist than a solar physicist. I bought a photo of the aurora printed on glass so you can hang it in the window like a suncatcher when I was in Finland a few years ago. I also have a nice framed aurora picture from a photographer in Minnesota and some books of aurora photos. I tried taking some aurora photographs myself a few years ago when we could see aurora here in Iowa.

I have one or two stained glass window patterns of aurora that I've been wanting to make, but I just haven't had time to do them yet. They're pretty big, so I also need to find a large window to put them in!

The inside lining of the coat I wore to work today has a sort of scribbly, stylized pattern of stars, snowy mountains, pine trees, and green squiggles that look a bit like the aurora on it. :-)

Kris