The clouds parted just in time for this show. Southern Lights above, Southern Ocean below. Taken from Dunedin's St Kilda Beach on August 25, between 0.30 and 1.30 NZST. Canon EOS 300D, 800/1600 ASA, 10-20s exposure, f/3.5.

It's not often we get to see auroras here in Australia, so whenever a slim chance arrives I take it. I'm sure a lot of northern hemisphere people think it's nothing but light pollution, but to me it's GOLD! When you live at 34.4 degrees south any type of auroral activity is spectacular. This particular display lasted less than 20 minutes, and would you believe I missed seeing the best part of it! I was writing a short note to the farmers who's driveway I had parked in. Forunately I left the camera shooting away on it's own and it captured everything. When I finally looked up the whole southern horizon was glowing. Image details: Canon 1DmkII, composite of 156 images, 30 seconds, 17mm, f2.8.

Nikon D100 digital camera.20mm nikkor lens set at f5.6 & 400iso.30 sec exp.Processd in Adobe photoshop 6 & Neat Image

At first we thought that the 'long' one was light passing through the smoke from our beach-side campfire. It quickly became apparent that it wasn't! To the north were thin spires, but this green band, which extended the length of the sky, quickly formed and changed. Absolutely incredible! Nikon D70 (with horrible noise problems..) 800 ISO, about 2-3 minutes exposure for each.

Using Fuji S5500. Shutter speed of 15 seconds at F/2.8. This display lasted for about 3 to 4 hours, with various displays of colours and patterns. A fantasic night time light show!

The clouds were the king of the Quebec center, a parcours of a 300 km was necessary to capture a wonderful aurora. Lac St-Jean water were the witness of this phénomene. August 24 2005 21h30 o`clock at St-Prime town Quebec. Pentax ist ds, is a new arm for Gilles Boutin chasseur d`aurore boreale

After missing the events of last night, I went out to try and capture the northern lights with my camera. The only display was one green patch that would fade and brighten for about 5 minutes starting at about 10:15pm PDT...it then disappeared for the evening. This photo shows the patch over Mt Baker and Baker Lake.

Aurora Australis (yes, the other one!) seen as a whitish glow with the naked eye but much improved after imaging with a Sony DSC-W1 digital camera, 400 ASA, 30 secs at 2.8

Over Yellowknife at 11pm to 12 midnight. Photos taken on a Canon Powershot digital camera, 2-8 sec. exposures.

Beam appeared about 50deg high and stayed for about 10mins, then is vanaished and an arc appeared for about 40mins

more images: from Laurence Harry of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada;