About a week ago we got another pretty good aurora action in the skies which I tried to capture. We actually had lights yesterday too but there were too many clouds so I didn't bother. A week ago however we had a perfectly cloudless sky above so it was the best time to chase some northern lights.
At first, I was just outside the front of my home to test if I saw something, yes I did.
After a short while the lights subsided and I went back home. Some an hour later I saw from the live cameras that the activity had picked up again. I went out again but I walked to the nearby field to get just a bit darker scenery.
At first, there was just a big arch of glow in the sky but I didn't see actual lines or movement.
Also, some red color was visible.
I stood there for about half an hour, waiting for the lights to pick up intensity. This is a huge waiting game because it can happen very suddenly when the lights get very bright. Sometimes it doesn't happen and the time is pretty much wasted. I was already thinking about going back home but then, all of a sudden the action really picked up.
I saw some really good lights dancing in the whole of the northern sky for about half an hour before all the action subsided suddenly again. Not before I got the following photos too.
I also took several time-lapse videos but these are only about 9 seconds long in total. I will upload the video at some point too but I think I will wait for the next time when I see some great aurora in the sky too and capture some additional footage so I have a bit longer video to bring to you.
