Category: Aurora Borealis

Although we’ve been seeing good displays of aurora borealis since early August, last night was the first time I’ve been out for long enough with a good enough display to tell you about it here. Last night was actually the third very good night in a row but it...

As I went to bed Tuesday night, I looked outside and said to Cathy that it felt like an aurora night – “in a couple of hours.” An hour and a half later, she woke me up and said a display had started. I put my pyjamas on, got...

This is the fourth post in a row about photographing the aurora borealis, but it will be the last one for quite a while. The posts have been about progressively better displays, but there’s nowhere to go after this one. I haven’t seen any reports from scientists yet, but...

We’ve had some extremely optimistic aurora forecasts that turned out to be duds lately, but the night of October 7th-8th was very good, and the aurora was seen way down into the States. I was out shooting it twice. I wasn’t feeling well on the 7th so went to...

Yesterday morning, the aurora put on a good show for several hours, and I went out for two hours of shooting that really felt good. My internal aurora alarm got me up at 01:10. I looked outside and was soon out with my gear. The first photo was shot...

I haven’t been aurora-ing much yet this season, but need to get to work on it, because we’re nearing the solar maximum and it could be a very good season. Last night the forecast showed pretty much no chance of a show but it turned out to be quite...

I got up at about 03:15 today. First thing (as always), I went out onto the deck and checked the sky. There was a very faint glow that was probably aurora, but the current report showed a Kp of under 2, so there was basically no chance of getting...

Although I’m not nearly finished showing you the Arctic trip, it’s Spring and the weather is wonderful, so there are other things happening that I also want to show you. I probably wouldn’t have posted about our outing to photograph the migrating swans yesterday, but then as I went...

In the past week, I’ve been out shooting the aurora 4 times, but the mornings of December 17th and 18th are the main ones I want to show you. On the 13th, there were 2 brief shows, one at 03:40 that wasn’t very impressive and again that night at...

I’m pretty much convinced that the aurora borealis now wakes me up. It’s a regular occurrence the past few months to wake up in the middle of the night, step outside to an aurora show, and a few minutes later the aurora is gone. Yesterday morning, I woke up...