Right place. Right time.

Scott Mayeda
Aug 18, 2022
1 min read

We were in the Northern Lights “sweet spot”: Whitehorse, Yukon. Outside of town, away from city lights, facing north, parked in a clearing. A late rising partial moon. Cloudless skies. (Very fortunate because it was drizzly

all day). Enough solar flare activity earlier to create the effect. Being up at midnight. ✔️

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5 Comments

Michael Yokoyama

Aug 24, 2022

Beautiful

firecontained

Aug 21, 2022

So lucky that you planned it just right, amazing. Great photo!

taylor0640

Aug 19, 2022

So glad u were able to see this!! Just amazing!!!

Kevin McCarthy

Aug 18, 2022

How cool!

scott mayeda

Aug 19, 2022

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I can’t believe our good fortune. Many things had to align for it to be visible. As Lane once said, “It was a mellow surprise”. We can now cross it off our bucket list.