The Northern Lights put on a spectacular show in Prince George on Sunday night.
Local photographer Chris Foote was able to capture the lights from Cottonwood Island Park.
He took four vertical pictures and stitched them together to create a panoramic image of the entire sky.
The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, occur when charged particles (electrons and protons) collide with gases in Earth’s upper atmosphere, producing tiny flashes of lightning that fill the sky with colored light.
As billions of these tiny flashes occur in succession, the lights appear to move or “dance.”
The northern lights are most often seen between mid-September and mid-March, and you usually have to travel far from the city to avoid light pollution to get a good view, but the lights can be seen one by one dancing right over the city.
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