The dull photo turned out more interesting than I thought

Last night was a frigid, totally clear sky night and the northern lights forecast said low solar activity. So I pointed our IP camera north and bashed out a few scripts to record continuously and create a long-exposure star trail photo, hoping to have a really clean star trail. Yes, I have nothing better to do at night...

Turns out, we did get northern lights - and some light pillars too. So technically my clean star trail is ruined. But the image still looks cool.

At least that gave me an opportunity to make a timelapse video of the northern lights with the source images I used for the star trail, which you can see here.