The building in the foreground is the Hollow Rock Resort in Grand Portage, MN. What was particularly cool about the northern light show this evening was that because of the 'Bayou Boogie', which takes place every Labor Day weekend at Grand Portage Lodge and Casino, all of the cabins at Hollow Rock were booked by the Cajun performers for the Bayou Boogie, all from New Orleans. As they returned back to the cabins after playing their music at the lodge, the Cajuns saw me setting up my tripod on the beach, and some came down to see what I was up to. It was incredible to share the wonder of the Northern Lights with people who had never seen them before. Most of them knew that their homes back in New Orleans no longer existed because of Hurricane Katrina. As they sat and stared in awe at the sky and conversed with me, all of that was temporarily forgotten. 30 sec. exposure, f4.0, ISO 800, Canon 20D Digital SLR

Aurora started to appear when I arrived at the camp site at 2200 PST (Sept. 3). Most of the sky was cloud covered, but a little break in Northen sky made this show possible. Lights danced quickly around midnight, and disappeared behind clouds at 0300. Pentax *istD, SMC-FA 20mm f2.8 lens.

This aurora was taked 18 200mm d3.5 Tamron lent 15 secondes exposed at 1600ASA whit Canon 20D

While starting an imaging session of deep sky wonders some alarms came thru the cellular phone and I soon realized this is going to be a night of spectacular Aurora Borealis. The show started typically with a bow in the low northern part of the sky. The green was very bright, but no remarkable phonomena raised and the fog from the warm see water finally ruined all my attentions soon after midnight. Images were captured with a Canon EOS 20D DSRL camera piggypacked on a 10' Meade LX200 Classic SCT and a Peleng fish eye lens. Setting were 1 minute exposure at 800 ISO & f/4 and daylight white balance.

Nice bands of green aurora filled the sky from late twilight til early dawn. Sept. 1st to 2nd.

Very nice displays through the evening. This was from a 15 minute burst starting around 0700UT. Canon Rebel XT, f3.5, 20sec.,ISO 800

Our astronomy club was hosting a star party at the Space Studies observatory 10 miles west of town. The clouds broke just in time for the aurora. 16 sec exposure with Olympus C-5000 digital camera at ISO-320.

Was a great display.I used a 35 mm camera with 800 ISO film,shutter was held open for about 15 to 20 seconds..