A Timelapse of the Canadian Rocky Mountains at night ending with the northern lights. Shot over a period of three months and some very long cold nights. All scenes are shot in either Alberta or BC Credits, in order of appearance: Heart Mountain Mt. Townsend Mt. Smuts & Mt. Byng Spectral Peak & Mt. Costigan Mt. Aylmer Mt. Bogart & Mt. Kidd Revelstoke BC For more photos and such www.richardgottardo.com or connect with me on twitter www.twitter.com/richardgottardo thanks for watching!

Photographer Richard Gottardo on his months in the Rockies hoping to capture the Northern Lights:

"Time after time they prove to be incredibly difficult to forecast."

April 13th and 14th, an enormous solar wind (i.e. a coronal mass ejection or CME) streamed over the Rockies in British Columbia.

Just astoundingly beautiful!