
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.
引人入勝的天景表演為阿拉斯加的常住居民照亮了夜漫漫的冬季。這張北極光的照片拍攝到克里克聯(lián)盟發(fā)光的地平線。在這張被曝光了十分鐘的照片中,左上角的北斗七星呈現(xiàn)出條紋狀,它們?cè)?2月的天空中旋轉(zhuǎn)。這個(gè)地區(qū)的居民每年能看到數(shù)十次北極光,而那些居住在更北邊的巴羅角的人們更可以看到上百次之多。