A select from a collection of aurora borealis images taken on May 11, 2024.
I’m very happy to have viewed solar and lunar eclipses before, but I never thought I’d be able to see the northern lights this far south. These images were taken during the aurora storm on May 11, 2024—the strongest one in the past 20 years—from the southern shore of Lake Simcoe, Ontario.
My mom and I only learned about the upcoming aurora storm the evening of the event, so we drove up north last-minute and didn’t expect to see much. We were afraid of missing it entirely because of the heavy traffic and cloud coverage we encountered on the way to the lake. Luckily, the sky cleared out momentarily as we scouted the shore for a viewpoint, allowing me to capture these photographs between 2:00 – 2:30am before the clouds moved back in.