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Rocky Mountain Night Skies Lit by the Northern Lights

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!​