This picture was taken with a Canon Digital Rebel of my fellow aurora shooter. We were just packing things up for the night, and noticed this silhouette.

The display lit up the sky between 2- 3:30 AM. I was fortunate to get these reflections in the open water of the river. It seemed every time the aurora would intensify someone would drive through the river--yes!--with their cars and trucks disturbing the surface for several minutes.

Some very nice displays but lasting only few minutes. Sony Cybershot 400 ASA 30 sec.

Though most of the night was cloudy, for an hour or so the sky cleared and the lights blazed overhead. Even when the clouds returned, the lights remained quite beautiful--especially with the lights of Fairbanks occasionally illuminating the clouds from below. Shot with Canon 10D, 24mm f/1.4L lens, an ISO of 400, and exposures from 4 to 20 seconds.

Taken with canon 1Ds

Canon EOS 300D, ISO 800, 15 second exposure, 24mm lens.

The auroras were dancing this night. Usually we only see greens in the skies but there were flashes of purple & pink as well! Photo details: Sony DSC-V1, 20s exposure

I went ouside at 6:15 UT on 14 march 2005 to see if the aurora was there and visualy I saw nothing due to the light polution but the aurora, a faint green arc, appeared on my digital pictures.

Glow to the north visible for over four hours. The camera picked up a few rays here and there, but only the glow was visible to the naked eye for the most part, with intermittent well-defined defined arcs. Canon EOS 300D, 30 seconds at f4.5, ISO1600

One of the finest auroral displays I have seen in four years of taking aurora photos. The only problem was it lasted all of about a minute. I was able to snap a few images before it faded away. Certainly a night to remember, though.

As I started an exposure, an aurora research rocket was launched from Poker Flat. Since my planned exposure was too short, this is a composite of 3 images in quick succession. Nikono D1X, 20-35 mm, ISO 800 10 Secs @f2.8.