Northern Lights
Selective Focus: November Aurora in the City
Northern lights were visible throughout the region last night, including areas in Duluth where excessive artificial light normally wash out the low-intensity glow of the aurora. Collected here are a few Instagram posts highlighting scenes from the night sky. (more…)
Loons Singing to the Northern Lights
Seth Trobec captured these sounds and scenes looking over Moose Lake, north of Deer River, on May 19, 2023. The video was released on YouTube last week. (more…)
Homestead Aurora
Duluth photographer Tone Coughlin captured northern lights scenes from Monday night’s stronger-than-expected solar storm. “It peaked around 10:30 pm and was so strong you could see it with the moon lighting up the foreground!” Coughlin wrote in the YouTube description of his video. “Another wonderful light show.”
Selective Focus: A Late Spring Aurora Borealis
Northern Lights on the shore of Lake Superior at Glensheen Mansion. (Photo by Mike Mayou)
A startlingly strong Northern Lights show was visible across the United States this weekend, viewable from even the Florida Keys. Instagram is brimming with spectacular shots from in and around Duluth thanks to this solar storm. (more…)
Northern Lights over Grand Marais
Via WDIO-TV, time-lapse footage of the Sept. 18 northern lights by David Johnson, captured in Grand Marais.
Selective Focus: The Green Monster of March
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqL9kY0pz38/
Instagram is once again aglow with photos of the northern lights in and around Duluth. (more…)
The Great Lakes Aurora Hunters
This Twin Cities Public Television segment follows a group of photographers chasing the Northern Lights in Minnesota.
Holiday Aurora: Lights of Summer
The latest video from Seth Trobec is new to the internet, but was shot last summer over Independence Day and Labor Day weekends — July 2 and Sept. 4 to be precise. The timelapse was created from Trobec’s photos of the northern lights. (more…)
Selective Focus: Labor Day Weekend Aurora
https://www.instagram.com/p/CiGCCS3gNI5/
This past weekend was aurora galora as the northern lights danced across Minnesota skies. Collected here are select images from Instagram. (more…)
Northern Lights Time Lapse
Seth Trobec put together this time-lapse compilation video to document the two best aurora displays he has witnessed in 2022. One of the two scenes was shot about 80 miles northwest of Duluth.
“The scene with the stream and trees across a field was set near Calio, North Dakota the night of March 30-31,” Trobec wrote in the YouTube description. “The other lightshow in the video was viewed from Deadhorse Lake near Marcell, Minnesota. I took thousands of pictures with my Sony A7riii, each of those nights, and compiled the best parts for this video and set it to music.”
Selective Focus: More Aurora
https://www.instagram.com/p/CV2oDTDr8Bf/
Instagram is aglow with northern lights photos from last night, thanks to a little solar storm activity. It was less than a month ago when Perfect Duluth Day previously featured auroras in “Selective Focus,” but the show last night brought out practically every sky photographer in the region. (more…)
Selective Focus: Geomagnetic Glory
https://www.instagram.com/p/CU7mvqdrm0o/
A geomagnetic storm brought vibrant auroras across Minnesota and beyond last night and early this morning. Collected here are images via Instagram of northern lights across the region. (more…)
Selective Focus: March Aurora
This past weekend’s aurora did not disappoint. Gathered here are some of the best shots, culled from Instagram. (more…)
The Slice: Tips from a Northern Lights Photographer
Photographer Travis Novitsky shares his methods for gathering images that capture the beauty of the aurora borealis.
In its series The Slice, WDSE-TV presents short “slices of life” that capture the events and experiences that bring people together and speak to what it means to live up north.
Consider the Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTqcRrilLTw
Celestial photography by Duluth’s Dennis O’Hara, with a song performed by Deb O’Hara.
Aurora Borealis of March 30, 2019
Ben Sullivan captures the northern lights north of Duluth.
Selective Focus: Northern Lights
We sure do love our auroras up here. There are predictions of moderate activity tonight and Saturday according to the internet experts and local astronomical legend Astro Bob.
The week of Sept. 17-23, Night Sky Week will be taking place in Duluth. Click here for more information and a schedule of events. The project is organized by Starry Skies Lake Superior, a group raising awareness of the effects of light pollution.
One of the main events will be a showing of the movie Skyglow. The trailer below is pushing some product pretty hard, but there are stunning images in it. (more…)
Memorial Day Northern Lights Real Time Video
Richard Hoeg captures the sights of the Northern Lights and sounds of loons in the distance in this video shot over Little Stone Lake, about 40 miles northeast of Duluth. The video was taken on Hoeg’s Sony A6000 with an ISO setting of 3,200.
Lady Aurora at Boulder Lake in Winter
Lady Aurora danced at midnight last night, Rich Hoeg reports on his 365 Days of Birds blog. Hoeg was shooting from frozen Boulder Lake, about 20 miles north of Duluth.
“The Northern Lights display last night was not a ‘classic’ rays shooting skyward,” Hoeg wrote. “Instead bands of color turned on and off, sometimes blinking to appear only for a few seconds, followed by the lights flashing on in a totally different part of the sky. Totally cool … just different.”
Northern Lights at Boulder Lake Dam
Time lapse photography by Grant Johnson of the tail end of the Mother’s Day Northern Lights at Boulder Lake Dam near Duluth.
Photos of Last Night’s Northern Lights in Duluth
By Brian Barber
It’s fairly rare that the aurora borealis is this visible in Duluth. Solar eruptions triggered a severe geomagnetic storm over the weekend, causing brilliant colors last night that kept photographers and sky gazers up into the morning. Gathered here are a few images from the PDD Facebook page and other social media. (more…)
Northern Lights near Duluth
Photographer Derek Montgomery captured these images of the Northern Lights dancing across the sky just outside Duluth, early on the morning of April 16.
Northern Lights on Lake Superior’s North Shore
The sky was dancing last night.
Northern Lights!
The aurora borealis started off early last night as soon as the sun had set. I captured this image just outside of the Duluth city limits. Enjoy!