On Tuesday, Vancouver residents were treated to a stunning northern lights show, and there’s another opportunity tonight.
Daily Hive connected with a Vancouver photographer who caught some stunning photos of the show last night.
Skywatchers were gifted the show thanks to a severe geomagnetic storm that led to two large coronal mass ejections that impacted the Earth on Tuesday. And if the weather permits, we could see the lights again tonight.
Folks have been sharing their photos of last night’s spectacle all over social media, and photographer Barbora caught some stunning images herself.
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Barbora is a professional photographer from Vancouver who lives with her daughter. She also works for the Pacific Blue Cross. She regularly follows astronomy news so she can be notified about potential aurora shows and feels she’s able to alert people when the northern lights are around.
“I love to make people happy,” she said.
She got her start in photography, capturing nature and portraits, when her daughter was born, “because memories are everything.”
She captured these shots on her Nikon D750.
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She really loves the northern lights, telling Daily Hive, “It’s just beautiful.”
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Barbora also captured something she doesn’t know how to explain, calling it something “truly special.” She thinks she saw a ghost. She said that others are calling it a ghost, too.
“I was shocked. I never saw something like this before,” she told Daily Hive.
“In my 15 years of observing the Northern Lights, I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
She thinks there’s a face in the sky in one of her pictures, which she calls the “aurora ghost.”
You can judge for yourself:
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If you missed the show on Tuesday night, you could get another chance on Wednesday night.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) aurora dashboard, there’s a pretty good likelihood of catching the lights on Nov. 12. NOAA shows that Vancouver is in an area with a decent probability of seeing the lights.
NOAA
However, it all depends on the weather and how much cloud cover we have to deal with. The forecast doesn’t bode well, but the weather has been all over the place in recent days.
Currently, Environment and Climate Change Canada predicts a mostly rainy day and night.
ECCC
Were you able to catch a glimpse of the northern lights show in Vancouver?