Category: Aurora Borealis

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...

Spring hasn’t actually arrived yet – even the 14-day forecast calls for temperatures to remain well below seasonal norms. Given our above-normal snow load, the slow melt is very good news for all the people who have been flooded or threatened by floods the past two years. But yesterday...

I hadn’t planned to go aurora-hunting last night, it just worked out that way, and I’m sure glad it did. I had seen a very good aurora forecast, but also saw that the weather forecast was for clouds and flurries, so gave it little thought. As the evening progressed,...

The weather continues to be wonderful, and though I haven’t been feeling well recently I really needed to get out, so I was determined yesterday to load up the e-bike and go somewhere for a major Adventure, though I had no idea where that might be. I’m usually up...

We got home last night from 9 days at Congdon Creek Campground on Kluane Lake. A few minutes before 02:00 on September 4th, an excellent display began. As is often the case, I woke up just before it began. When the show started, I quickly got my camera gear...

It felt like years since I’d been out on an aurora hunt, but I see in the blog post archives that I was out four times last Fall. In any case, I miss seeing Lady Aurora, and there have already been a few good shows this year, so when...

I’ve just come in from one of the most amazing aurora shows I’ve ever seen, and after dying down, it’s ramping up again as I write this. There are photos being posted from all over Canada, so a whole lot of people are getting to experience this one. Although...