Northern Lights Dance Across Night Sky in this New Timelapse Photography Project

Photography Tips  •  Time-lapse Photography

As part of the “Experience Aurora” project, photographer Richard Gottardo recently compiled a timelapse video composed of more than 1,500 individual photos. Taken over the course of seven hours between night and early morning and across a distance of 400 kilometers, the video shows otherworldly shades of green and blue flickering behind the snow-dusted Rocky Mountains:

Following are some of the stills from the video:

One photo even captured a meteor or shooting star:

Some of the locations featured in this video include areas within the Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.