The skies over Finnish Lapland were overcast that night, but as I crossed the border to Norway, at around 10 p.m., the skies cleared up and this pretty display was ready to begin. A -20 C temp and a very brisk wind added to the experience. The display lasted well till midnight. Nikon F100, Nikkor 28mm/f1.4, Fuji Provia 400F.

The auroras danced all night long.

Camera was a canon ae-1 with a 28mm lens on Konica 400 film, exposure time was 20 seconds.

Aurora at noon above the 42 m antenna, a part of the EISCAT Svalbard Radar.

Virtually a moonless night. Taken with Nikon D1X at 800 ISO equivalant. Both were taken at f2.8 for 8 seconds with 14mm.

These pictres were taken with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel 300D, 18mm lens (28mm) at 400ASA, exposure 20 seconds. The observatory pictured is the Observatoire de la Découverte in Val-Bélair Québec Canada.

MY FIRST AURORA PHOTOs - - I had just purchased a new digital camera recently and was aching to put it through its paces - - taken with Minolta Dimage Z1 Digital Camera 30 Second Exposure F2.5 Setting

Photo details: Canon 10D Sigma 15mm ISO 400, 15S, f2.8

Although the display wasn't extremely active, it was persistent. A huge arc spread over Anchorage and the Chugach Mountains, resembling a giant green rainbow.

This was the brightest display I have seen yet since moving to Alaska. The aurora was directly overhead and very bright. The photographs were caught using my Olympus C5050Z with a 16 second exposure. The aurora last for several hours!

At first it looked almost like a giant laser-light show was coming from behind the nearest mountains, leaving the well known snow-covered mountaintops only as black silhouettes against the bright green sky. Then it moved closer over the mountains, and it looked like a giant river was flowing across the sky - for a moment there was a virtual 'whirlpool' right above my head of bright green and purple. The mountains changed again from mere silhouettes and were fully lit up by the light from the auroras. Before I got my camera the intensity of the auroras was fading, but still I managed to get these photos. Olympus C-2100, 16s exposure.

Sony F7171 iso200 ~ 20 sec exp.

As the aurora was beginning, a low altitude airplane preparing for landing added a nice effect to this photo. Camera: Canon Digital Rebel, ISO 800, 15 sec. exposure.

It is awesome to go out most nights and see this. Sony digital -717 camera.

Just as I was about to pack it in for the night (00:30h UT 24.01.04) a bright green glow appeared in the north sky. An Aurora !! The display only lasted for about half an hour as the foggy cloud which had been forming on and off all evening came in in for keeps (this has affected the second picture). I used my old clunky Zenit E with a 35mm lens, f2.8 400 ASA film and a series of bracketed exposures of between 15-30 sec to collect some images.

I stepped out on the deck to see how much snow I would have to scrape off my truck and noticed the morning aurora over the city and busy morning rush hour traffic; approximately 7:30am on Friday Jan. 23rd.

We saw a nice purple, pinkish aurora last night! This is a short clip made from the video.

The auroras were quite bright for about 1 hour from 9.15 pm to 10.15pm despite a thin ground fog after which it faded to just a faint glow. Taken with Nikon Coolpix 5400 400 ISO, 30 Secs, f2.8

These images were taken as part of 'Tonight's Aurora' for photography tours in Yellowknife. Aurora appeared the best at 5am for the last 2 nights. I haven't have much sleep these days. Pentax *istD, SMC FA 20mm lens, 15mm fisheye lens

No moon but the lights lit up the small patch of open sky I had. Shot with a Minolta Max 9, 50mm 1.4, 8sec, and velvia 100 pushed 1 stop

I had visited your site earlier in the evening of January 21 and saw that there was a chance of aurora activity. Around 11 p.m. I took a quick view outside and could faintly see some streaks in the sky. A friend and I drove about 7 km north of town to a very dark location where we remained for over 1 hour. This was the best display that I have seen this winter. These images were shot using a Nikon D100 with a Sigma EX Aspherical 15-30 lens, 400 ASA, and between 6-8 second exposures.

This is a short clip made from our webcam last night. Enjoy!

Last night was a pretty good night for auroras. The show started around 8pm and did not stop until 4am. Pentax *istD, SMC FA24mm lens

Wonderful display, but downright cold. The camera held up better than I did. Canon 10D, Sigma 15mm fisheye

I took these photos and short video on the morning of the 16th. Photo detail: Camera Olympus E-1, F-2.8, ISO 800, exp 5 sec

It was very cloudy, but alittle after midnight it cleared enouth to get some video. The display did not last long and the clouds took over again. On my web site there are more video clips of the aurora including some very colorful clips from the November 20th displays.

Was surprised when I opened the window shades of the airplane (facing northeast) at around 1200 UT (7 a.m. EST) and saw 'white' vertical clouds floating above the cloud layer below (we were cruising at 37,100 feet). 7- and 10-second exposures with a Sony F717 digital camera revealed these 'white clouds' to be vivid green aurorae! They rapidly changed shape, from vivid sharp ribbons to diffuse curtains, esp. with reference to the bright stars of Cygnus and bright Vega. Nice to be able to get some good shots despite some turbulence and hand holding the camera to the plane window during the long exposure.

I was Just letting the dogs out at 10:30 p.m., I looked up and saw these auroras. The full moon was so bright, I had to reduce the shutter speed from 15 seconds to 10 seconds, ISO 50, Canon Power Shot S230, 3.2 mega pixel.

'In this photo you can see my aurora webcam along with some very nice aurora. This was the second best show that I have seen all season--so good that I took 47 photos. I hope to have them up on the internet soon.' Photo details: Olympus E-1 digital camera, F-2.8, ASA 800, exp. about 1 or 2 sec. ENJOY!

Our first auroras of the new year appeared above frozen Kincolith River on Jan. 3, 2004. Faint Red light appeared briefly.

A short lived but bright auroral display over Girdwood with a waxing Gibbous moon illuminating the foreground on January 2, 2004 just before midnght.