A "Lost Night's Work?"

My photometric studies for the evening came to a dramatic end on a cold March night in 1988.  The counts on the photometer had been "odd" from the start but when the brilliant auroral storm "hit" I had no choice but to sit back and enjoy the show.  The display lasted all night - waxing and waning as the earth was buffeted by gusts in the solar wind.  By midnight or shortly after I "packed it in".  A lost night's work?  You decide!