I’ll post an update on our trip over the weekend but wanted to do a quick post on a spur of the moment photoshoot I did last night.  There was a large solar storm earlier in the week and it hit the planet last night producing some beautiful auroras.  I’ve never seen them before so it was quite a treat and thanks to Cav and his finance Carrie for joining me last night!

The auroras were much fainter than the photos indicate, these shots were all 15 second photos so my Canon EOS R5 was able to capture a lot more light and while I could see the green colour, the purple as not visible to the naked eye.  I did bring my night vision along and that was a lot of fun to use, on a near moonless night you could really see the auroras dance.

LOL Cav and I made the decision to go see the auroras around 10:30pm and since they were moving East to West, he came to me and we drove about 30 minutes North of my house to a random farmer’s field because it had a good view of the northern sky. Ended up chatting and taking photos (took a video through my nods with my phone, will post later) till about 2am so I’m pretty tired today but it was worth it.

This was definitely on the bucket list and man I can’t wait for the next solar storm to try this again!