Curtains of aurora during an active storm on February 18, 2018 from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in the early evening in the last of the twilight. This night the aurora was brightest early in the evening. The Big Dipper is at left. This is a single frame from a 725-frame time-lapse with the Nikon D750 at ISO 3200 and Sigma 14mm Art lens at f/1.8. Exposures were 2 seconds.
The Northern Lights in deep blue twilight in the northeast on the evening of February 18, 2018, from the second floor deck of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba. The Big Dipper is at left. Leo is rising to the east at centre. This is a single exposure of 4 seconds with the 14mm Sigma Art lens at f/1.8 and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200.
An aurora in the northeast with the Big Dipper (at top), Arcturus (near the horizon) and Leo (at right, below the Dipper), to illustrate the relationship and postion in the eastern sky during aurora season here in Churchill, Manitoba. A single frame from a time-lapse sequence, with the Sigma 14mm Art lens at f/1.8 and Nikon D750.
