Northern Lights Show

CPR and First Aid training today

Another nice day cleared most of the streets

I went out to look for the Aurora Borealis at 9:30. Nothing happen for about an hour. Then a ribbon of green light came up to the east  far away from where I was expecting it. The light played across the sky directly overhead until it reached the horizon in the west.

Because the ribbon stretched from horizon to horizon, I could not capture all of it in one picture. So I took pictures of each end in portrait orientation. 

Another phenomenon you cannot see in the photos is the way waves dance across the ribbon, moving second by second. The exposures took 15 to 20 seconds each, so you see an accumulative effect but not each individual detail.

Occasionally more ribbons of light would form to the north under the overhead strip, and I would capture those in landscape orientation. 

A little after midnight my phone got too cold and shut down, so I went back to the hotel. Here is a progression of pictures.