Green, red and magenta auroral curtain in the light of the waxing quarter Moon. The Moon is in Taurus between the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters. At far right are Jupiter and Venus setting in the west. This is looking south and southwest. Photographed in the grounds of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada on 26 February 2023.

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