Aurora Borealis tonight...
 

Well, I'd been planning on going to bed at a reasonable hour, but here it is, closing in on 4am with a full day of school, football and fencing ahead, and I'm still on JW and not asleep. There was a spectacular light show in the sky from about 12:30am onwards and I took a bunch of pictures, some of which are below....hope you guys enjoy them !!

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Sorry about the blurriness of some of the pics...despite the fact that I was using a tripod, some of the photos came out a bit unsteady...I guess you can thank a 4 second exposure for that hehe.

very nice.....I love when the sky lights up at night, we had a nice sunset the other day and I also got some nice pics of it. :D

oooooooooooo vanquish you have a A+

thanks a lot for this images

i want cry with this imgs are awesome and beauty ,

the aurora boreal is one of my favorites thinks

thanks a lot dude

It was a bit of a surprise for me too...it's normally not this far South, I'm at about 42degrees of latitude...it usually doesn't appear until at least 45 degrees. Anyway it was beautiful and incredible to see...flickers and flashes from East to West all the way across the sky...and then the more steady stuff on the Northern horizon really bright and beautiful. I tried to take some video too, but my camera isn't very good for nighttime vids...I basically just ended up with a bunch of black and people talking in the background.

i never seen the aurora boreal in person but, i see that in a article of discovery channel, and the best place to see that is alaska

is amazing i hop you can see that program is amazing

If your camera has a time delay ( eg. 2 or 10 seconds), use it. The pics are blurry because you shake the camera/tripod when you release the shutter.

But damn nice pics of the Northern Lights anyway! 8)

I was using the time delay at the beginning, but the more spectacular it got the less I wanted to miss it, so I was taking as many pictures in rapid succession as I could. Most of them came out pretty well actually with a minimum of blurriness, so I'm not too disappointed hehe.

Nice pics, really beautifel colours, thanks.

Great photos mate, well worth your efforts.
I have only seen this in docos before; truly stunning! Thanks.

Well...keep your fingers crossed guys...my astrophysics buddies here at Umich tell me that the lights should be on tonight and tomorrow as well...I'll see if I can't get some more good pics this evening (homework has to come first, but we'll see hehe)

I see it all the way down here! :lol:
It was pretty damn cool, but the pics they showed on the news were far better than what I saw!

It must be an awesome experience to see this phenomenon...great pics, thnks :D

thanks for sharing these great pics.... I'll have to admin, I'm quite envious... I have always wanted to see the northern lights.. hopefully one day I'll get a chance

Go outside and look, apparently they were visable as far south as Oklahoma and in parts of California and they're supposed to be out again tonight :-) (and for the rest of the week)