Northern Lights, October 1, 2016

As to be expected with a level 6 forecast, there was a lot of Aurora activity last night. Unlike my early September photos, I didn't see any of the shimmering ribbons of light sort of activity this time. Instead it was more a subtly changing smear of light across the sky. It would have been easy to mistake the lights for some sort of strange clouds. Still, I got a couple good shots of the dipper again! I used about a 10 second exposure for these shots, and, no: the trees aren't leaning: that's an artifact of the ultra-wide 10mm lens.

These were taken at 62° 53' 12.73" N, 149° 46' 33.34" W; about halfway between Talkeetna and Cantwell on the George Parks Highway, on the side of the road just a little north of the north Denali viewpoint, inside Denali State Park: https://goo.gl/maps/HweV9QK9R8T2