The Night Northern Lights Danced

One doesn’t have to travel to faraway northern locations to see the northern lights. This intense northern lights display was photographed in east Perth County, 20 minutes west of Waterloo, during a strong Kp 7 geomagnetic storm on September 18, 2023.

Northern lights come in different colours. Green is the most common, created when solar wind particles excite oxygen atoms in the atmosphere. Red is seen during more intense storms when oxygen atoms are excited at high altitude.