Midsummer Magnetic Mistral

Incredible northern lights last night.  The show was so dynamic and fast with pulsing and dancing, I was having a hard time doing it any justice with long exposures.  I cranked up the ISO and took a series of 175, 1-sec exposures and made a time lapse video in effort to show how energetic the storm was.

This was the view looking straight up.

Check out my other videos from previous storms

March 2015

April 2015

Another April Aurora

Enjoyed a nice G1 storm tonight.  Weather was agreeable.  Just a few clouds in the sky for contrast.

Glass Caribou

The weather was fabulous today.  Sunny and very still.  Caribou lake has been glassy for hours and hours.

Sunset

The Dragontree

Very faint aurora with a meteor streak and some orange light pollution
and tons of stars reflected in the lake

April Aurora

We had another aurora event.  Due to clouds I missed Thursday show, but Friday's follow up was still pretty nice.  Check out the video at the bottom!

Time lapse video

Pan-aurora-rama!

I finally got my panoramic images of the March 17th aurora stitched together.  Microsoft ICE!

Two panos stacked; 8 images total; 180 degrees of awesome!

Veiled Aurora

Northern lights peaking through a veil of clouds.  The red ray here was the only one I saw between 1:15 and 2:30am.

Amazing Aurora

Wow. I haven't seen aurora borealis like this in a long while.  The northern lights are so amazing.

See the time lapse video at the bottom of the page!  And check out the panoramas!

Reflecting in the ice/water on Caribou Lake

30 second exposure as the lights were fading.

Crazy activity!!

To the panoramas!

Aurora borealis

Recent solar activity lit up the skies tonight.  Faintly visible with the bright moon surrounded by a colorful corona.  Long exposures brought out the color in the northern lights.  Caribou Lake made for a nice mirror.  I had to fight with condensation on my lens as the temp dropped to 39F and humid air came off the lake.  I got to see a really great shooting star...unfortunately not captured with the camera.  I also had the pleasure of listening to 4 or 5 Barred owls calling back and forth.

Big Dipper over the aurora reflected in Caribou Lake 

Some red rays shining through

A colorful corona around the bright moon.