W. Clark: "I was up at Artist Point in the Mt Baker Ski Area doing some observing when a surprise display of northern lights decided to bestow it's magic."

Yusuke Ebihara: "This picture was taken by our all-sky imager (180 field-of-view) mounted at the South Pole station on the day when Mars was closest to Earth. The zenith corresponds to the axis of the rotation of Earth. The orientation of the picture has geographical longitude of 0 deg. at the top, meaning that Mars is at the top and Sun is at the bottom at 00:00 UT. The image is not a true color image because it consists of three images with three different optical filters, 557.7nm, 630.0nm and 427.8nm." See also a 24-hour movie, which shows Mars circling the sky at constant elevation."

R. Cockman: "This display lasted for an hour or so and I was happy I made the effort to travel to clearer skies east of Edinburgh to see it. Whilst there I watched a yellow crescent moon rise in the NE and brilliant Mars dominate the sky to the S." Photo details: 30s exposures taken through a 28mm f/1.8 lens onto Fuji Superia ISO 800 print film.

C. Lakomiak: "During almost five hours while I was out, there were six auroral bursts, which made for a busy night."

J. Kinnunen: "These images are from my hometown of Jyväskylä, in central Finland, were taken at 11 PM local time exactly two hours after local sunset. It's my daughter Noora sitting on the pier. With the rising crescent Moon, the Mars (outside these images), auroras, and a distant thunder cloud reflected on the perfectly calm Lake Iso-Soukka, the view was almost too perfect to be true. A nice beginning for another aurora season!" Photo details: Nikon F100, Nikkor 28mm/f1.4, Fuji Provia 400F

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S. Bodin: "This animation is about 3 minutes condensed into 3 seconds. It was captured using an 8mm f1.0 lens on an integrating color video camera taking 2 frames per second."

D. Clausen: "I combined 5 images for this panoramic view over the Menominee river. I could tell when the Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field would tilt to the south because the auroras would burst from a glowing arc to shards of light in a matter of minutes."

Photo details: Olympus Camedia 2040Z digital camera set at asa 200 and a lens opening of 1.8. Exposure time: 16 seconds.

R. Sandnes: "This was a nice display, which filled almost the entire sky with very beautiful moving bands at the zenith."

Note Mars in the lower right corner.

D. Cantin: "This was the best display of the year so far!" Photo details: 16mm @ f 2.8, 15-20 sec, Fuji Superia 800

Photo details: 16mm, f2.8, 20 sec, ASA 400

Photo #1 was taken using a Konica Centuria 800 camera and a fisheye lens.

D. Zeldon: "It's been ten months since a display like Sunday night's aurora. I was lucky to catch a period of activity lasting ~ one hour centered on 11:30 EST." Photo details: Nikon Coolpix 4500, f 3.0, 15 seconds