A great eruption of northern lights, quite unexpected this night.

In setting up for a time lapse, it is difficult to guess how bright the northern lights will be; the ebb and flow. One has to choose settings that work for the first shot, then keep those settings in place for several hundred shots, and walk away.

In this time lapse, some parts of the sequence are quite dark but other parts are so bright, some areas blown out with brightness. That's the way it goes sometimes.

I wanted to show the great expanse of the sky with the magnificent dynamics, the movement, and the variety of colors in the great dome of the night.

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Everything seems to be radiating from a point so far away, so high in the sky...

Camera facing due eastward then tipped almost all the way overhead, the Pleiades lower center of image.

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Sky cleared off in the evening, almost as if forced out by some of the most brilliant red northern lights I have ever seen. This is unedited except for adding my signature, just what the camera captured.

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It can be hard to know just where to point the camera. 😊

Milky Way directly overhead.

Approximately 100 photos, ISO 1250, F1.8, 8 seconds.

Canon 6D Mark II with Sigma art 14mm 1.8 lens

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