Photo: Moon Picture Northern Lights Hudson Bay Manitoba Canada

A bright full moon casts beams of light over Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada while the Northern Lights stream across the sky. A beautiful scene on a clear starry night in the town of Churchill.

Billowing and streaming across the sky, visable on clear starry nights, the northern lights are a phenomenon generated by the reaction of solar particles as they flow past the Earth - channeled by the earth's geomagnetic field. An added bonus is to see the northern lights during a full moon on a starry night especially over a large body of water such as Hudson Bay.

The northern lights (aka Aurora borealis) constantly change intensity and while sometimes they appear as a faint stream in the sky to begin with, they can quickly turn into a chaotic mass of swaying lights which fill the sky.

It can be difficult to photograph the northern lights with a full moon - normally the darker the sky the better the lights appear. But on this wild night of activity ... continue below the picture...

This picture is part of the photo album "Northern Lights Pictures" - there are more beautiful images waiting for you.

... they did a good job of outshining the moon which hung over Hudson Bay, a scene watched from the town of Churchill in Manitoba - Canada's polar bear capital.

Northern Lights, Aurora borealis, above Hudson Bay and the town of Churchill with a bright moon, Manitoba, Canada.