
Spectacular sky shows brighten the long winter nights for Alaska's year-round residents. This display of northern lights sets the horizon aglow at Trapper Creek. Stars of the Big Dipper, upper left, wheeling through the December sky, show as streaks in this ten-minute exposure. Residents of the region witness dozens of auroras yearly; those in the Point Barrow area farther north see as many as a hundred.
引人入胜的天景表演为阿拉斯加的常住居民照亮了夜漫漫的冬季。这张北极光的照片拍摄到克里克联盟发光的地平线。在这张被曝光了十分钟的照片中,左上角的北斗七星呈现出条纹状,它们在12月的天空中旋转。这个地区的居民每年能看到数十次北极光,而那些居住在更北边的巴罗角的人们更可以看到上百次之多。