Lights in the Air
The aurora came out shortly after midnight
Tipping Fields
CJ watches the band disappear. The Bz component of the insterstellar magnetic field kept flipping north and south fairly quickly. The aurora faded in and out with it.
Momentarily bright
The start of the highest intensity band we saw this morning.
Western action
The western sky opened up for a few seconds
Fades again
The band faded rapidly again. It just wasn't looking to be a good night.
Last Shot
One last shot before heading inside. Hoping for better data to go out again. Turned out to just do this most of the night. Sleep.
There we go . . .
Early the next evening a strong band was out, right overhead.
Snow-clad with aurora topping
I love shooting aurora through the trees.
Second band starts to emerge
Breaking away from the main band
With the moon and clouds
The main band drifted into the southern sky. Clouds gave some nice texture to the sky.
Watching
It kept getting better
Snow covered spruce under the northern lights
Clouds to the south
A little bit of light cloudcover, but it certainly wasn't blocking the view.
Under the moon
Still drifting to the south
Bright Moon and Aurora Borealis
Aurora shining in the bright moonlight over a snowy spruce forest in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Aurora Moon
Pinks Come Out
The low altitude pinks started to shimmer
About to erupt
Some low-altitude crimson started to shimmer at the bottom of the band as it slowly started to creep south.
Moving overhead
Could tell there was about to be a corona. It started getting hard to keep any foreground in the shots.
