Came outside to see a red hue in the sky - wasn't expecting an Aurora in Virginia, and first thought was light reflecting off a recently passed storm cloud. The first shot was slightly out of focus, and by the time I mounted the camera (Nikon D40 1.8f lens) on the tripod the aurora was about 25% of it's previous intensity.

Incredible display here in south east Wisconsin! The show began right after sunset and continued for about 2 hours. The lights were so strong at one point even a 5 seconds exposure at ISO 400 was too much. This was the first time the my 10 year old son Phil got to see a display like this, all you could hear from him was “Look dad, look” “Look all the green and read, awesome “ Thank you Spaceweather.com for the early warning.

You know most of the story about these rare red northern lights by now. I was on a canoe trip in northern Minnesota when I noticed a green glow starting. I set up a shot and noticed red in the image. At about 8:30pm, the sky exploded in red. The auroras were directly overhead and all around.

I could see a faint glow to the south, and when photographed a faint red glow was observed. Photo details: 2 min exposure Cannon EOS 400D

An awesome display of the aurora this eve ... so nice to see the lights this far south!

Fantastic shot of tonight's aurora from the all sky camera at Alfred University in western NY.

Awesome Northern Lights show tonight

If you would like more information or the originals, please email me back. I noticed that the k index was 7 so I decided to go out and see if there was any chance I could see anything. When I went out, I was shocked at how brightly the sky was glowing. I immedietly grabbed my camera and started shooting. Shooting at an 8 second exposure time and an iso of 1600 with a stock lense was more than adequate to capture the vivid colors of the storm. I am located in south central Missouri. this image was taken in the center of town. The aurora greately over-powered the light pollution.

Insane!!! I have been waiting like 6 years for this! I had no clue until I was showing someone the orionid meteor shot from yesterday and I was like holy cow! I ran outside in my skipper, jumped into my car and drove to a close spot away from city lights.. I was in such a rush that I forgot my tripod mount on my 70-200mm lens. S, I made my sweatshirt into a tripod and mounted it on the top of my Xterra. They only popped out for a minute or two between 11pm and midnight. This was awesome. I think this was the first time I have seen them here since September 2001. Small but Nice! First the Orionid meteor shower and now the Northern Lights! What a week!

I work second shift, I am also getting into shooting naked eye stellar photography like star trails and other night time shots on my way home form work to help wind down. After posting what I was doing on my FB page I checked my email after work, one reply said that there were auroras showing all over the state...@ 8:30pm...it was now 2 am, and I thought that I had missed it all. So I continued with my planned shots. After I set it up, and let it go for a while, I noticed at what the time I thought were clouds, then they just disappeared and the red glow started showing on the northern horizon...I thought to myself "Hot dang, the auroras are still going on, so I quit what I was doing and turned the camera around and started shooting the auroras. As I have never shot them before, and because it was at the end of the show, I only managed to get one good picture. Taken with a Nikon D300, with a Nikon 16-35mm, set at f4 & 6 min exposure. Lots of other star trails and sunsets are on my smugmug page listed....including the shot that I aborted to get the Aurora.

Pillars of red light shine up from beyond the southern horizon, during the geomagnetic storm on the 25th October. Seen here from Adelaide, Australia, the aurora is visible only 35 degrees south of the equator.