These are nighttime visual and multispectral images of the Aurora Borealis from the DMSP satellite F18 on Oct 25, 2011, 0140 GMT.

Shot these red auroras yesterday 24 Okt on a Nikon D3 just east of Reykjavik Iceland. The problem was that the city lights from Reyjavik were lighing up the clouds.

I took this last night near Moodys, Oklahoma about 8:30 p.m. CST facing north. Moodys is located north of Tahlequah, OK, which should appear on most maps. I was about 27 miles north of Tahlequah using a cigarette pack and a car as my tripod. It's a bit blurry. I used the Canon T3i with the kit lens at 18mm. 20s exposure. The sky was darker than the image on the camera. I used auto levels on the camera as I it was dark and I couldn't tell the true color, just knew the sky wasn't black.

I was watching the data throughout the day. As soon as the sun went down I could see a very bright display right in the center of my city! So I headed north to get away from all the light pollution. It well worth the drive. Auroras were so high in the sky I actually photographed them with my camera pointing a little bit south! It was a fantastic display that I will not forget! Canon 5D2 24mm f1.4 and 16-35mm f2.8. 5-15sec @ ISO1250-1600.

From 7:30 onward our entire northern sky was glowing greens and reds and we took these shots in between the clouds and rain. These are 5 min exposures, Canon XTi, ASA800

I had gotten home from work on the evening of the 24th and was pretty tired so after an early dinner I laid down for a nap. I woke at 9:00 PM and decided to check spaceweather.com to see if there were any CME's recorded during the day. To my surprise, there was a fresh Aurora picture and news of a CME that hit our atmosphere earlier that evening! I then checked the Auroral oval and the kp index which indicated STORM level, so within a few minutes my photography gear was loaded in the truck and off I went to do some shooting. I spent the next 6 hours making images of the Northern Lights. I went to several different locations and recorded several hundred images throughout the night, including some sequences that I combined into a timelapse video. The most intense and colorful lights occurred between 2:00 and 3:00 AM, which pillars of light dancing sideways across the sky, dominated ultimately by some deep red hues. It was a fascinating night of picture-taking and Aurora-watching! Click this link to see my timelapse video from last night: http://www.travisnovitsky.com/Video-Clips/Misc-Videos-2011/15463515_PPqmrm/1/1548881914_W5Jtkts/Medium

Upstate NY near Ithaca.... Against the silhouette of the Maple tree's looking north was the definite evidence of the Aurora Borealis red and green in the dark night sky.

Having missed the best part of the outburst I went out to see what I could capture around 3:00 AM. I managed to catch a burst that barely lasted a minute and then a bit later managed to catch the aurora and an Orionid meteor in the same shot. The meteors were really flying from a few various showers this early AM. The Orionid meteor is visible on the inside of the right tree in the second photo.

Aurora bonanza in Tromsø when a CME hit earth's magnetic field last night.

Northern Lights over Alabama...

The show was just an ok event until the "red surge madness" happened. Looking at time stamp on images, seems it was a 10-15 minute period of very crazy bright red beam/wall. Here are a couple from that time period. Faded very quickly to faint red and faint green glow. The green glow lasted much of the night.