A wide vertical portrait of the Northern Lights in the northern sky, with the stars of the Big Dipper and Polaris above centre. Shot from the upper deck of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre on a very windy night with wind chills of -50°, so standing in the wind to take this image was bitter! You grab a few images and retreat! This is a single 15-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 15mm lens and Canon 6D at ISO 3200.
A participant in the February Arctic Skies tour sets up a photograph of the aurora in the northern sky from the deck of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Feb 11, 2016. The Big Dipper and Polaris are above centre. This is a single 15-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 15mm lens and Canon 6D at ISO 3200.
Multiple curtains of aurora appear along the curving arc of the auroral oval over the boreal forest. This is looking just a little east of due north from the second floor deck of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba. Polaris is just left of top centre, with the Big Dipper at right of top centre. A meteor streaks to the left of Polaris. Vega is at lower left as a circumpolar star low in the north. The curtains appear more yellow toward the horizon due to atmospheric absorption. The curtains display the classic green tint with red upper fringes, both from transitions in oxygen. This is how the Lights usually begin from this latitude under the auroral oval. They will then move up and south from this formation to cover the sky. This is a 20-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 15mm full-frame fish-eye and Canon 6D at ISO 3200.
