Wisconsin Aurora
When Wisconsin sky-watcher Brian Larmay was out for a stroll on the night of April 2, he noticed a faint glow near the North Star. Racing for his camera, Larmay captured the ethereal colors of auroras over Pembine (map)—farther south than the northern lights usually appear.
"My adrenaline was in overdrive as I watched the pillars of light pulsate brighter and brighter and then fading as subtly as they arrived," Larmay said in an email to National Geographic News. (Related pictures: "Huge Solar Storm Triggers Unusual Auroras.")
Aside from dipping into northern U.S. states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota, this early April sky show was unusual because it featured several so-called deep-sky auroras.
These light shows are often faint to invisible to the naked eye but come alive in long-exposure pictures, just as astrophotographers need long exposure times to capture details in very distant "deep sky" objects such as galaxies and nebulas. (Find out how to "see" beyond the Milky Way from your backyard this month.)
To create this auroral "sunset," Larmay used a digital camera set for a 30-second exposure time.
—Andrew Fazekas
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...rora-pictures-deep-sky-northern-lights-space/
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yes that's the list of the other places as well...do you think its car headlights at all of them???? LOL
See also[edit]
Hessdalen light
Gurdon Light
Marfa lights
The Spooklight
Brown Mountain Lights
St. Elmo's fire
St. Louis Light
Will-o'-the-wisp
The Hessdalen lights are of unknown origin. They appear at night, and seem to float through and above the valley. They are usually bright white, yellow, or red and can appear above and below the horizon.
The Gurdon Light is a mystery light located near railroad tracks in a wooded area of Gurdon, Arkansas.
determined that witnesses had misidentified automobile or train lights, fires, or mundane stationary lights.[1] However, according to a marker on the Blue Ridge Parkway, a massive flood struck the area soon after the completion of the USGS study;
all electrical power was lost and trains were inoperative for a period of time thereafter. Several automotive bridges were also washed out. The Brown Mountain lights, however, continued to appear.[
The line, located south of Prince Albert and north of St. Louis, has had its tracks removed, but the phenomenon still occurs on a regular basis.
