When a friend and I went out to photograph the Milky Way last night, the last thing we were expecting to see was such a good showing of the northern lights over the boundary of northeast Minnesota and Ontario, Canada. There was a soft green glow on the northern horizon as soon as the sky was dark enough to see the first stars. Just after midnight the soft glow turned into a very active ribbon of light that arced its way across the northern sky as pillars surged upwards, reaching for the stars. This level of activity lasted about 30 minutes then settled back into the soft green glow. There has been quite a bit of solar activity over the past few months, and that activity should continue to increase as we move closer to the next solar maximum!
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