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"Polar Elegy

An elegy, the aurora writes,
Her pen a comet’s trail,
Her ink a cosmic palette,
Her words a silent soliloquy
Inscribed on the parchment of night.
A requiem, she composes,
Her notes a constellation’s song,
Her rhythm a planet’s pulse,
Her melody a celestial refrain
Echoing in the polar silence."
- Dan Higgins

September, Þóroddstaðarkirkja in NE #Iceland.

Canon Powershot G3 X, ISO-800, f/2.8, 13 sec.

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A colour photo of a night sky full of stars and a diagonal block of strong green aurora from bottom left to top right. There are three wavy streams within the arc, and some standing bars. The apex of a roof and a treetop are in the bottom right.
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Green aurora rising above snow-covered spruce trees near Fairbanks, Alaska. The lights stretched overhead in shifting ribbons just a few yards from my cabin on a calm winter night.

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Bright green aurora arcs upward in the night sky above a dense stand of black spruce trees coated in heavy snow. The snow-covered forest glows faintly under the aurora’s light, while faint purple tones blend into the background sky filled with stars. The aurora curves and tapers near the top of the frame, resembling a tall, twisting flame reaching into the dark.

Boreal Forest Aurora

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Jumping back in here for a couple of seconds because I thought you might want to see a bit of last nights arqsarnitt (aurora) #NorthernLights #Aurora #auroraborealis #Nunavut
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The Green Dance

22:30 on a cold night in late September. After an hour of standing in the middle of a field, shivering even though our clothing was warm, waiting for the predicted #aurora to appear we were finally rewarded with this lovely display.

Þóroddstaðarkirkja¹ near Kaldakinn, NE #Iceland.

¹ 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙬-𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘴-𝘴𝘵𝘢-𝘵𝘩𝘢-𝘬𝘳𝘳𝘬-𝘺𝘢

Dedicated to Gargron and mellifluousbox, for all you've done and continue to do for us. 🙏

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A colour photo of a clear dark sky full of stars. The foreground is a grassy field, softly lit from behind the viewer by lights from buildings. On the horizon are strong domes of light from distant buildings, out of sight over the horizon. The sky is filled with diffuse green aurora on the right and stronger bars of green on the left. Near the centre and above the green is an indistinct patch of red aurora.
#photography #northernlights #aurora #iceland #auroraborealis #auroratuesday #iceland2025

I'm behind in my writing. Shocking, I know. Here's a quick one with some aurora photos I've taken since the start of the season.

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Aurora Intermissions

Between seasons, under the northern lights
Lee Petersen (Lee’s Newsletter)
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Keep an eye to the sky tonight, friends ☺️❤️ #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights
Streaks of pink aurora head downward to houses, framed by green aurora
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Good Morning #Canada
If you haven't been living in a cave this week, you know that the #NorthernLights were putting on a show across Canada. As you know, a solar eruption sends billions of tons of superheated plasma into space and traveling at more than 45 million miles per hour it can reach Earth in less than a day. That plasma, drawn towards the magnetic pole, interacts with our atmosphere, and we get a spectacular light show. The Aurora Borealis, named by Italian astronomer Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, is not unique to Canada, but so much of our land is in the Northern Hemisphere that most Canadians have the opportunity to experience it. This is particularly true in the Northwest Territories, where the Northern Lights are visible for 240 days every year on average. The phenomenon has a special meaning for Indigenous Canadians, some of whom believe it shows them ancestors dancing in the sky.

#CanadaIsAwesome #GetOutside
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The Northern Lights looked great from central Indiana Tuesday night. This was the view from Westfield, IN.

📷: iPhone 14Pro

#INwx #NorthernLights #auroraborealis

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Last night’s Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) display over Calgary’s sky captured by me

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Me watching all you people posting all your cool #northernlights photos from down here in the Tropic of Cancer area:
A young boy with a serious expression is featured in three panels. The first panel has the text "CONGRATS," the second reads "HAPPY FOR YOU," and the third says "NICE." The boy is wearing a plaid shirt and bright pink pants.
#northernlights

Awrawrawra!

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A curtain of aurora forming sheets of green and red (green at the bottom, red on top) with brighter pillars interspersed hangs suspended over a small city
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To say we're getting an overwhelming aurora display in Montana tonight is an understatement. I'm just trying to keep up with the dozens of photos and videos from all of our great Q2 viewers... thank you everyone! (2/3)

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Here’s mine. Minnesota this evening. Best I’ve ever seen, and of course they were better before I got my camera out. #NorthernLights #Aurora #AuroraBorealis #NightSky #MNastodon
Photo of aurora borealis with leafless trees in the foreground.
Photo of aurora borealis with leafless trees in the foreground.
Photo of aurora borealis with leafless trees in the foreground.
Photo of aurora borealis with leafless trees in the foreground.
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Gorgeous red auroras tonight over the Goldstream Valley in Fairbanks, Alaska. A rare show, strong enough for the red emission to be clearly visible to the eye.

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Vertical photograph of the aurora borealis seen through snow-covered spruce trees at night. Bright red and green aurora bands rise in straight vertical columns into the sky, forming a tall curtain of light. The trees in the foreground are coated in snow, silhouetted against the aurora. A clear night sky with faint stars is visible above the aurora.
Vertical photo showing red aurora above snow-covered spruce and birch trees. The aurora forms diagonal, soft streaks that spread outward toward the top of the frame. The trees at the bottom are heavily coated in snow and appear as dark silhouettes beneath the light.
Vertical image of red and green aurora appearing above a dense stand of snow-covered spruce and birch trees. Faint beams of aurora stretch upward toward the stars. The foreground trees are coated with fresh snow, and dark branches frame the top and sides of the image.
Vertical photograph of red and green aurora overhead, viewed between tall spruce trees laden with snow. The aurora forms a wide fan shape spreading outward from a point near the horizon, with streaks of red dominating the center and green along the edges. Stars are visible through the aurora.

Recent Photos - Lee Petersen Photography

The most recent things I've seen in my life. In reverse chronological order.
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Even with the light-polluted sky in Reno NV, I see the northern lights! My first ever.
#northernlights #aurora #solarstorm
Bright pink northern light against tall dark pine tree by our house, Some streaky clouds.
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Aurora showed up in Minnesota again. Worth every numb finger :)

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powerful burst of red, orange, and green aurora fans out across the entire sky above tall trees. The colors swirl together like a living nebula, filling the scene with energy and motion.
Bare tree branches stretch across a sky glowing deep red and orange from the aurora borealis, with hints of green at the edges.
Striped bands of green and red aurora stretch vertically over a lakeshore framed by trees. The grass and water below appear still, contrasting with the vibrant, shifting sky above.
Red and green aurora curtains ripple above a calm Minnesota lake at night. A thin tree leans toward the glowing horizon, while faint lights from distant houses reflect softly on the water
#photo #photography #northernlights #nightphotography #aurora #Minnesota #onlyinmn #mn #mnastodon

Even past the lights in our area.

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A picture of the northern lights. through the middle there is a brilliant red flanked by green on either sides. There are trees framing it.
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NORTHERN LIGHTS ALERT:

We are seeing the cloud cover over the #Northland #clearing from west to east, so the #NorthernLights will be visible for most of us over the next several hours.

Here's a preview of what they may look like, courtesy of Scott Gordon. He's in Mesquite, #Nevada.

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A view of the Northern Lights around Mesquite, Nevada the evening of November 11, 2025. Photo courtesy of Scott Gordon.
The satellite over the Northland at 8:10 p.m. on November 11, 2025, shows clearing skies working their way from west to east across the region. This should allow the Northern Lights to be seen for most of us in the Northland later tonight.
#weather #northernlights #Nevada #wx #nvwx #northland #clearing #wxtooter #mnwx #wiwx #upwx

"The heavens have opened and out of the blue
Heralded, like a queen, across the night
The Northern Lights come marching into view"
- Cecil Day-Lewis

Red #aurora is quite rare and usually associated with intense solar activity. When charged particles react with less concentrated oxygen at greater altitudes (300-400 km/180-250 mi) it glows at higher wavelengths, creating red.

North-eastern #Iceland.

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A colour photo of a dark sky full of stars. At the bottom is the silhouette of the ground surface, some low level lights are visible from distant objects. In the centre of the shot is a wavy line of bright aurora, the lower edge is strongly green and the upper parts are distinctly red. There are bars and lines within the bands of colour and, oddly, they aren't vertical.
#photography #northernlights #aurora #iceland #auroraborealis #auroratuesday #iceland2025 @Photography

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