This 3-minute music video, in 4K, features exclusively real-time videos of the Northern Lights.
The title comes from a conversation with Dene elder Caroline Bjorklund who told me a Dene word for the Northern Lights translated to “the sky is dancing.”
Another Sayisi Dene word for the aurora is “Na yel kai” which means “reoccurring dawn.” Both are wonderful terms for the Northern Lights.
In this video there is no time-lapse and none of the sequences are sped up. The motion is as the eye saw it, though the camera, even in short exposures, picks up the colours better than the eye.
The green is from glowing atomic oxygen; the lower pink fringes are from molecular nitrogen. We didn’t see much in the way of deep reds from high-altitude oxygen in these displays.
I shot all the sequences from February 1 to 9, 2019, from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre near Churchill, Manitoba. Its location at 58° North latitude and 97° West longitude places it directly under the auroral oval for almost nightly displays.
I was at the CNSC as an instructor for two aurora tour groups. During the 11 nights I was there, every night was at least partially clear and with auroras every night. Even local aurora veterans remarked on the excellent run of nights we had.
The CNSC offers 5-night aurora viewing sessions where visitors stay, dine, learn, and view from the dark site of the Study Centre 20 km from town. See www.churchillscience.ca and check under Learning Vacations for details of the aurora programs, and others for the polar bears (autumn) and belugas (summer).
However, February and March are the prime months for the Northern Lights, when the nights are clearest, though cold! It was -25° to -35° C on the nights I shot the video clips, and with a brisk wind chill at times!
The music is the composition “Homebound” by the composer Steven Gutheinz, from the 2014 album Inspiring Minimalism. It is used by kind permission of West One Music. See stevengutheinz.com/music.htm
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TECHNICAL:
I shot the real-time video clips with a Sony a7III camera and two lenses: the Venus Optics 15mm lens at f/2 and the 8mm Sigma fish-eye at f/3.5, using the 4K movie mode at 24 frames per second for full-frame 4K. I used a dragged shutter speed of 1/4 to 1/8 second at ISO 12,800 to 25,600.
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