I got a call around 3:30am from SpaceWeather Phone, walked outside on my back deck and saw these auroras. Even a really bright moon was no match for the auroras for a little while.

'I woke around 5:00 AM to a sky full of green and purple aurora. I got the camera out just before the sun rose. A beautiful August show! Photo details: Nikon Coolpix 5400, 30 sec exposure.'

A bright moon can sometimes add to a composition if the auroras are vivid. Sony DSC-F707 digital camera, 400 ASA, F2, 7-13 second exposures, wide angle adapter

Bright moonlight illuminated the foreground nicely, but definitely cut down on the sky contrast. Still, it was a colorful and beautiful storm to the unaided eye! The mountain in the foreground is Yampa Butte. I used a Fuji FinePix S2 digital camera set at ISO 400 with a 35 mm lens at f3.3 for this 30 second exposure.

Aurora started to appear around 23:30 and kept on going until well over 05:30 in the morning. Pentax *istD, SMC-DA 14mm lens.

The Northern Lights brightened the skies for at least an hour at about 3:00 a.m. PDT.

The subsiding aurora display still made for some nice viewing here in Upstate NY. These photos were taken about 9:30 local time. (Canon 10D, ISO 800, ~25s exp.)

Despite bright city lights, some wispy clouds, slight haze and a bright moon I was able to observe this impressive aurora show around 0330 to 0500. It went from a featureless glow to discreet rays and wave like pulsations, even saw a bit of color beyond green. Photo details: Canon A95, 200ASA, 7s exposures

While checking the fish smoker around 2a.m. I was treated to the first display of northern lights of the season. In my twenty years of aurora photography this is the earliest I have been able to shoot them in southcentral Alaska.

This mild display had been active for about 40 min. When the temperature dropped and the meadow I was in filled with ground mist and a little higher some fog. The fog picked up the colour from the aurora. Turned out to be a very good evening (morning actually)