Dance of the Spirits: An Aurora Borealis Time Lapse from Rob Berrade on Vimeo.

This a time lapse of the Aurora Borealis or northern lights as captured just outside of Hay River, in the North West Territories.
My friend Andy Buffy and I had driven up from Calgary, an 18 hour drive, to hopefully capture the light show only to find the area clouded over. We scouted out some locations and waited for the skies to clear.
When the conditions improved we started to drive out of town towards an abandoned gravel pit we had found. We hadn’t gotten half way when Andy started to say he thought the lights might be starting. We pulled off on the next gravel path that presented itself and drove 4×4 down a quickly narrowing and water filling trail, only stopping in front of a large puddle that someone else had blocked with a log, an obvious proceed-no-further warning.
Scrambling in the wet and dark we managed to unload the truck, setup, and capture about an hours worth of the most spectacular natural light show I have ever witnessed. Living in Canada I’ve seen the northern lights before but usually as nothing more than the shimmering curtain on the horizon. But what we saw that night and unfortunately being only able to capture a small amount of, filled the skies from end to end.
This little video is a capture of about an hour of what we saw.