How To Capture Awesome Auroras : The Picture Show : NPR

How To Capture Awesome Auroras : The Picture Show : NPR.

So beautiful and such a great article for photo buffs to take great pictures of the Northern Lights.

These bring back quite a few memories from when I was a kid.  We lived on a dairy farm, and had a good number of cattle.  During the winter it was always pitch black out with only the stars winking down at us.  And some of those mornings there was the most impressive display of lights.

I really miss seeing that sometimes.

2005's Southern Spectacular: A satellite took this image of the aurora australis (southern lights) in September 2005, after a solar flare sent plasma — an ionized gas of protons and electrons — flying toward Earth.