A display of Northern Lights starting up in the twilight, over the river leading out of Tibbitt Lake, at the end of the Ingraham Trail near Yellowknife NWT, on September 8, 2018. This was the start of a fabulous display this night. Capella and Auriga are at left; the Pleiades is rising left of centre; the Andromeda Galaxy is at top. This is a mean-combined stack of 7 exposures for the ground to smooth noise and one exposure for the sky and partially for the reflection, all 25 seconds at f/2.5 with the 14mm Sigma Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 1600.
A 360° panorama of the Northern Lights on a partly cloudy night from a site west of Yellowknife on Highway 3. A short-lived arc appears at centre south of the main auroral arc that looks very much like a classic STEVE arc. It appeared for a while in the east then brightened overhead then into the west at left, but was present for no more than about 10 minutes. Whether this was STEVE is unknown. However, Steve is in the picture as friend Stephen Bedingfield is taking images at right. To the left of Steve the person is Mars the planet just on the horizon (but as high as would get from this latitude of 62° N) and the Milky Way. The Big Dipper is at left. This is a stitch of 12 segments, each 25 seconds at f/1.8 with the Sigma 14mm Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200. Stitched with PTGui — ACR did a good job but did not allow adjusting the framing.
The Northern Lights in a subtle but colourful display over the still waters of Madeline Lake on the Ingraham Trail near Yellowknife, NWT. This was the night of September 7-8, 2019. The display this night never got really bright and active but was very photogenic and had a fine array of subtle colours. The Big Dipper and Ursa Major are at left, Capella and Auriga are near centre. The Pleiades is rising right of centre and is (are?) reflected in the water. I shot this from on the dock. The lights are from cottages on the east shore of the small lake. This is a 4-segment panorama, each 13 seconds at ISO 1600 with the Venus Optics 15mm lens at f/2 and Sony a7III camera. LENR empolyed in camera. Stitched with PTGui; ACR and Photoshop refused to stitch these segments as there is too much blank and changing content to match.
