AURORA LIGHT PILLARS OVER A MIDNIGHT LAKE

 AURORA LIGHT PILLARS OVER A MIDNIGHT LAKE

Green and crimson columns dropping out of the stars, and the water kept a perfect mirror.

This looks like an aurora display with strong vertical “light pillars”..a perspective effect when bright aurora bands line up with the camera and the valley horizon, so they read as tall beams. The colors come from oxygen and nitrogen high in the atmosphere: green is the most common, while red shows up during stronger geomagnetic activity or higher-altitude emissions. The lake reflection makes it feel twice as tall because the surface is calm enough to act like glass.

Where you can see that:
High-latitude dark-sky valleys and lakes—Iceland, Norway (Lofoten / Tromsø region), Finnish Lapland, Alaska, northern Canada (Yukon / Northwest Territories), or northern Scotland on a clear, cold night away from city lights.