Category: Aurora Borealis

The aurora borealis is Mother Nature’s gift to Northern residents. A good display can light up a winter night in ways that bring photographers and nature lovers from around the world. But what are the odds of seeing them? Now and for the next few years, they aren’t good....

I haven’t done a lot of aurora shooting yet this season, but the forecast for Tuesday night was so incredible, I made arrangements to meet a friend for a night of dancing lights. After editing, I have 144 photos from this night, but I’ve only posted a dozen 🙂...

After hardly taking any pictures for many weeks, I’ve been trying hard to make up for lost time lately. Whoops, Cathy says that house renovations are NOT “lost time”! 🙂 Since buying a lens specifically for photographing the aurora borealis last November, I haven’t yet had a good night...

This is always a crazy-busy time of year for me. That’s partially because there are a few projects that need to be done before it gets cold, and partially because I get a bit manic trying to fit in all the fun stuff as well. I haven’t posted in...

I hadn’t been out on a good aurora shoot in a very long time, mostly due to camera issues. I didn’t go out at all last winter (!), and the results from a 6-hour shoot a couple of nights ago were so poor that I’ve now ordered what I...

Around the world, light pollution is a concern for many people. For some, it’s an aesthetic issue. Many people today will never see a dark sky, so will never see incredible sights like the Milky Way. For others, health is the main issue. Artificial light at night can disrupt...

When aurora-watchers dream about their perfect world, one thing that often comes up is having the aurora show up at reasonable hours of the night instead of 2-3 am. Last night, that came true in a dramatic fashion. Sunset last night, the day before the shortest day of the...

Five weeks away from the blog feels like forever. It’s not that I’ve been doing nothing, it’s just that there’s been little worthy of writing about. There’s very little snow, and we’ve had fairly warm temperatures and lots of cloud, so no aurora… The forecast last night was for...

I was quite excited about the opportunity to photograph the latest aurora I’ve ever seen on Thursday night. Although the weather forecast when I went to bed at 8:00 pm indicated that I might have to do some searching for clear skies, the aurora forecast for strong (level 4)...

After a pretty dismal winter for aurora viewing, the wonderful displays of the past few weeks have been thrilling, and I’m taking advantage of any possibility to photograph more of them. The forecast was for a good display (a Level 3 at the UAF Geophysical Institute site) but for...