This is the Northern Lights as seen from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba, Feb 2-3, 2014, with a Learning Vacations tour group. The display brightened enough from 12 midnight until roughly 1 am that it shone through the clouds which never cleared enough for a good view. Nevertheless, we could see the main green arc move north to overhead as here, and develop rays shooting up to the zenith – and all this on a night when the auroral index was measuring quiet with little activity. The town lights of Churchill are in the distance at left. The Big Dipper is right of centre. Jupiter is at top left. This is a 30-second exposure at f/2.8 with the Sigma 8mm fish-eye lens and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200.
The Amazing Sky 