Sounds as if the Aurora Borealis will be even more spectacular in 2010/2011.

Celestial navigation using a sextant is really now a dying art, so it might be an idea to get hold of a sextant and learn how to navigate using one. Of course the computation part of the fix is now easily computed using a Palm computer and the appropriate software. Of course the accuracy of the fix is only as good as the observations. Ebay might be a good place to start to pick up a good quality second hand sextant and begin practicing.

http://www.mobilegeographics.com/celestnav/

It should prove to be a interesting skill to practice for, in terms of accuracy to obtain a positional fix and of course this method of positional fixing doesn't rely on a broadcast signal such as GPS.