Amazing Sky by Alan Dyer

This is a 360° all-sky panorama of the Kp6 to 7-level aurora display on August 11, 2024, from the 70 Mile Butte trailhead in Grasslands National Park, West Block, near Val Marie in Saskatchewan. This panorama is from about 11 pm CST, before the show peaked after local midnight. But even here it covered most of the sky, with due south just right of centre and the zenith at top. Cassiopeia is at left; the Big Dipper is at top; Sagittarius is lower right. The bright star Vega at centre at the zenith. Due south is at bottom; north is at top; east to the left and west to the right. The aurora glowed with a mix of green and magenta tones at this time. Later, some deep reds moved in as a substorm hit. The sky contains lots of fragments of auroral arcs and rays. Two other cameras in use that night are in the frame. The dark object at top right is the back of a trailhead interpretive sign. This is a 360° spherical panorama of 12 segments, each 4 seconds with the Venus Optics/Laowa 15mm lens at f/2 on the Canon R5 at ISO 4000. Shot with the camera in vertical orientation. Stitched with PTGui using spherical projection, from segments processed in Adobe DeNoise AI. The original is 12,000 by 12,000 pixels.