Skywatchers in many areas outside the city’s metropolitan region were treated to a relatively rare show Friday night when aurora borealis, better known as the Northern Lights, put on a show.
Jim Cummings says he drove about an hour west of Kanata to Silver Lake Friday night for the great shot above.
“(The lights) were almost invisible to the naked eye but I knew my camera’s sensor would see it,” he wrote, adding that he used an exposure time of about 25 seconds.
Photographer Steph Willems ( @willems_steph ) grabbed the pictures below in the skies outside of Plantagenet, east of the city.
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The aurora activity was prompted by a solar flare Wednesday afternoon.
U.S. and Canadian agencies said the flare would cause moderate geomagnetic storms until the weekend.
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Reader photo Steph Willems took this photo just after darkness fell at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. He says: “They disappeared shortly thereafter.”
Photographer Steph Willems grabbed this photo of the Northern Lights at Plantagenet.
