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This moment, around 2 AM on the morning of the 27th, represents, I think , the brightest formation of Auroral rays I've seen since last fall ... It only took a 3 sec. exposure to record this ... I probably missed the peak as I was struggling in the dark with frozen fingers to shorten the exposure time . Then, as if overdosing on solar electrons, my battery died ...
Anyway, this was very beautiful ... When I see bright pink tinged rays building higher and higher this way ... I begin to hear strain's of Bach's organ music in my skull ... It's like a celestial fugue ...

The new moon has set ... the twinkling unimaginably distant suns seem eclipsed by blazing emerald waves ...
The Sun's wind rules the night ..
Aurora, morning of Jan. 27.

Surging currents of Auroral light flare above the hills north of the Yukon River, early on the morning of Jan. 27.

Clouds were rolling in as I trudged back up the hill towards my place on the beautiful of Jan. 27.

Around 2 AM on the 27th of January, a brief and very bright Auroral surge.