“…After hours of enduring patience, a hint of aurora played above the peaks of the Chugach Mountains, toying with the possibility of further displays. Within seconds the skies filled with magnificent towers and waves of powerful aurora sparkling to and fro like celestial opals across the night. In the final seconds of this huge spectacle, a brilliant sweep of intense magenta aurora swiftly raced across the lower border of the curtain, spent its energy abruptly and then completely disappeared, leaving the once-illuminated nightfall to the vast starfields …”