These are the northern lights in Matanuska Valley, Alaska. I was so excited! I haven't seen auroras this good since October of last year.

Photo details: Nikon D50, shutter speed 30 seconds, f5, ISO 1600. The photo was taken from our observatory balcony around 1:30 am.

The auroras were the best of the year so far in Northern Minnesota and cast reflections across the small lake.

It's been a while since we've had a good aurora display in south-central Alaska, so this vivid display was a treat. It shows auroras over the Knik River north of Anchorage, Alaska.

The sky was alive with aurora all night, but especially active from sunset to about 2 am, after which the display quietened down to a low arc across the north. But for the first half of the night, several substorms caused the aurora to brighten on a number of occasions, with pinks at the lower edge and faint red at the tops of the curtains. Curtains and arcs crossed the zenith. I took a 300-frame time lapse movie of the aurora and decided to get in the photo myself for several of the frames.

Photo details: Canon 20D camera at ISO1600 and 16mm lens at f/2.8. Exposure of 15 seconds.

The Milky Way stretched across the sky tonight, ending in a nice aurora glow on the northern horizon.

Photo details: Nikon D70, Nikon 10.5 mm fisheye lens, f/2.8, ISO 800, 120 s.

Very mild activity between 11:15 and 11:30 p.m.

Photo details: Meade DSI color CCD camera and 1.4 mm fisheye lens. 30-second exposure.

As predicted by Spaceweather.com a low auroral arc sat over the northern horizon of the British Columbian mainland on Saturday night as seen from Hornby Island in the Straight of Georgia.

Photo details: Canon 20D, 20mm lens, 24 second exposures @ 400ASA

For me it was a good show, after a cloudy rainy Saturday ... Nice to see them dance arcoss the Northern sky once again.

Photo details: Canon T-70 with 400 iso film, shutter opening for 20 seconds..

A rather nice Aurora Borealis display is going on right now. This photo was taken just 1 hour ago and the Aurora changes all the time.

Photo details: Canon DSLR on tripod, iso 800 expo. 25s.

Best display I have witnessed for some time! Bright enough to penetrate the increasing cloud cover.

Photo details: Canon Digital Rebel, ISO 400 20 sec exposures.

After seeing that it might be a good night for Aurora, I stepped outside to see and there were some bright areas. I drove to a dark spot and started photographing around 1:30am. The city lights illuminated some scattered cloud.

Photo details: Canon 20D and a 10-22mm EFS lens. The exposure was 13 seconds @f/3.5 ISO 400.

An auroral display from Culloden Observatory car park at 2230h to 2330h BST on the first night of autumn. There were two distinct pale green bands arching from the north-west to the north-east with groups of very bright 'searchlights' appearing regularly. You can also see some redish-purple streaks which were not visible to the naked eye. The stars of the Plough can be seen in the top left and bright Capella with its companions in Auriga can be see on the right.

Photo details: Coolpix 5700 piggy-backed to motor-driven Meade LX50 telescope (20 seconds, ISO 200, f2.8, wide-angle teleconvertor) and processed with Photoshop CS.

Beautiful auroras on the night of September 23, 2006. The sky was full of green dancing auroras in between the clouds.

Photo details: Canon 350D, 18 - 55 mm lens,RC-5 and tripod. Iso: 800. Exp 18 - 27 sec.