Photographer [Carl Jones](https://www.flickr.com/photos/_belial/) never expected to see the Northern Lights from his home in Pwllheli, Wales. But last night, with the help of the massive [geomagnetic storm](http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31936503) that pushed the light show further from the poles than usual, he was able to snap the above photo of the pulsating aurora borealis. "I dusted off (literally, not used it in months) my D800 and setup in the back garden, waiting for my eyes to adjust to the night sky," he writes. "Suffice to say, it was worth the effort, I screamed at the kids to get their coats on and come out and watch the light show."

From Finland to Alaska, here's how the sky looked on St. Patrick's Day, 2015:

timelapse of an aurora seen over Dunedin on the evening of 17/18 March 2015

Timelapse of St Patricks Day Aurora from Dunedin NZ

Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory operates an all-sky camera for monitoring weather conditions. The camera assists astronomers observing with the Metsähovi 13,7-meter radio telescope to quickly form an awareness of the local cloudiness conditions. This video is a time-lapse of aurorae on the skies above the observatory captured between 2015-03-17 17:00 - 2015-03-18 03:31 UTC. The flashes of while light on the dome are from the lamps of Metsähovi personnell who were outside observing the aurorae and taking pictures. The aurorae were observed across the Northern hemisphere, including all of Finland. The original images were captured using on average a 23 second exposure time and since the frame rate of the resulting time-lapse video is 15 frames per second, the real-time events experience a speed-up by a factor of 345.

Video by Metsähovi Radio Observatory / Aalto University

Aurora Borealis - Metsähovi Radio Observatory all-sky camera time-lapse 2015-03-17

> Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Green from space. We have [@Space\_Station](https://twitter.com/Space_Station) aurora views: \[video\] [https://t.co/UG1x2YutsO](https://t.co/UG1x2YutsO) [pic.twitter.com/FBpXJ5OIhd](http://t.co/FBpXJ5OIhd)
> 
> &#x2014; NASA (@NASA) [March 17, 2015](https://twitter.com/NASA/status/577836968802828288)

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