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The northern lights became visible when the sky darkened enough to see them. The crisp shape of the arc of the northern lights emerging from the remains of day light in the dusk sky. Again they crept south getting higher in our landscape view as the evening progressed. We got 3 bright bursts of activity…

The northern lights were quite pale in the clear sky. The evening passed with just a few weak signs of life from the northern lights. They filled the sky but were so pale and to the eye not easy to see in the bright moon light. Then the huge arc of the northern lights almost…

Tonight the moon reached half full status, it was bright in the thin patchy cloud. The northern lights were further north, dancing over the hill tops on the horizon. There was though a huge pale band, a ghostly green arc through the camera of the northern lights. The moonlight was bright enough to almost hide…

The northern lights brightened and really came to life as we watched. Then one of the bands of green light began creeping south in our direction  weaving a little -like a snake-. It was fantastic viewing as it came nearer our location, then the end of it was above us. The end formed a back…

Tonight the treetops shadows stretched across the snow towards the northern lights. As twilight faded the northern lights hit full power. What a combination of moonlight, twilight and strong northern lights we got for the start of our night. Tall fingers of light reaching from the north southward, passing overhead on their journey to dominate…

The setting crescent moon was our early evening companion, the northern lights also were there to help brighten this perfect dark sky. The moon was hiding in the tree tops leaving us to watch the northern lights as they reached further south in perfect conditions. The tall streaks of light reaching ever higher into space…