A few weeks ago I did a post to help folks plan for an aurora viewing/photo trip. Here is an update on the first two trips I have guided this season. The highlight was one spectacular 2 hour period when the lights broke into a display greater than i have seen in years! Here are some highlight images.
A brilliant display plays out over a patch of boreal forest outside of Churchill, Manitoba. You can see a hint of red at the bottom of the auroral curtain. This shows solar particles interacting with nitrogen gas, while the green is oxygen. These colors are fairly accurate to what the eye sees, but the camera always picks up richer color than the eye. Many aurora photos on the internet which show the neon lime green are created by the photographer cheating and over-saturating the image in lightroom or photoshop.
Natural Habitat travelers rewarded with the North’s greatest show. We watched it from the Churchill Northern Studies Center.
Natural Habitat travelers watching aurora from the observation deck of the Churchill Northern Studies center.
This shape looks a bit like a witch…. can you see it?
Interesting formation.
I have one more trip. Hopefully the weather and solar flares will cooperate! When they do, it is one of the greatest spectacles on planet earth!
North to the future!
Brad
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