Aurora & Light Pollution from Cypress Hills Park, Alberta

A shot from many taken this night, in hopes of catching a meteor (or many) from the new Camelopardalid shower from Comet LINEAR 209P. No luck getting any meteors this night but this frame captures an odd auroral curtain rising from the magenta aurora low in the north. The lights of Medicine Hat, Alberta light the clouds to the left (northwest). A faint satellite trail is to the left of the auroral curtain.

This view is looking due north from the Horseshoe Canyon viewpoint in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Alberta just north of Elkwater. This is with the 15mm lens and Canon 6D, on the iOptron SkyTracker.

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