Northern Lights - In Real Time!

The aurora borealis or Northern Lights is not often seen on video in real time. This is to show what these wonders actually look like. No time-lapse here, just live raw video of natures best free light show on earth.

Video taken at my home in Terrace British Columbia Canada.

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[OctoberLifeImages]

Long exposure photography does pick up a great deal more color than the naked eye it's true, but aurora are also a lot more colorful and bright, especially in their most active stages than this video depicts

[redshift40]

@OctoberLifeImages - these looked mostly white to the naked eye and they often have no colour in them at all here at this latitude.

[Mostnorthern]

@OctoberLifeImages

When they are more active than this, they are called Dancing. They are very colorful and are a lot faster in movement

[redshift40]

@Mostnorthern - these were very active and dancing. Watch from 4:16 on, they are moving very fast but had no colour to them to the naked eye. They do not always have colour to them. The Kp 8 storm last night also had no visual colour from this latitude.

[TheFubbick]

Why is this video in black&white?

[redshift40]

@TheFubbick - it was fimed in night vision on a video cam, it seems to invert the colous. They were not in colour to the naked eye this time. A long exposure photo would have picked up greens and red.

[rsrkdo]

Thank you. FInally someone has a video of actual realtime auroras. Not some montage of photos or something that  looks like high speed weather cameras.

[pinkhotchoco]

Thank you for posting this without a time lapse. I'd always wondered how fast they move in peron.

[irisisthis]

That's scary :( I would never be able to hold it together if that was above me head :S

[durron19]

Cool, now I REALLY want see this in person.

[RandomLevitation]

Being from California, the only Northern Lights i get to see is in a bag.

[M1ZXG]

@JGFowler121 Yep. They should be proud of the way it turned out :)) I was lucky enough to have seen the biggest aurora on record but i have my dog to thank for that...someone has to walk her :) glad it was me that night:D

[erc911]

The video was very good! You're very lucky to live in a place like this. Thanks for sharing these wonders! OMG!!!!!!!

[mizzlepchenske]

I've always wondered. They still look spectacular.

[JGFowler121]

I still love this video and watch it almost every week. What a gem!

[bobbico03]

Yes! Thank you. Many of us have wondered how these lights look like.

[bobbico03]

Yes! Thank you. Many of us have wondered how these lights look like.