Northern Lights Stills

[Comet Hunter]

Taken 9/5/25 in Yellowknive NWT Canada
So magical, the sky was ablaze.
Equipment used was a Canon T7 with the Sigma 17-50 2.8f at 6 sec's each. I shot for 2 nights (however) on the 1st night I made a typical rooky mistake. I was SO excited to see these things I forgot to keep an eye on the dew point and all 200 and some pictures were toast to to my lens condinsation. And I had a lens heater, didn't think to use it. I never go out for astro photos with out one. Needless to say the night I took these it was firmly intalled.

Feel free to comment as I am new at this. In Astrophotography, we are told "no green in Astro images!" but these things are mostly green.
Add to it I am green/yellow colorblind, I am not 100% sure how these look? lol

which is your favourite?

# 1

# 2 This thing was SO BRIGHT I couldnt keep from blowing it out at 6 sec's with my feeble processing skills

#3

#4

#5. which is my favourite but the trees are slightly out of focus.
Its hard work having fun! lol

# 6

# 7

# 8

 

[AlanLichty]

I do like the fact that I can linger on each shot this way instead of a time-lapse.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Ed,

Sorry it took me a couple of days to get back to this one.

My favorite is #1 as I see a fox running in the sky. The face of a fox is what I see in the aurora.

I also like #3, 5 and 8. With #5, the trees are barely poking into the image, so I would crop them out. Standard landscape composition is to eliminate anything just poking into the frame, so I would just crop below the main part of the Auroa, I think it's much stronger that way.