Churchill Northern Lights
Hudson Bay's aurora on a live webcam, from a town that counts northern-lights nights by the hundred.
About this view
Churchill, in northern Canada, sits on Hudson Bay at 58°N: the polar bear capital of the world, and directly under the auroral oval, which is why locals claim the northern lights on some 300 nights a year. This live cam watches that sky from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, east of town.
Flat horizon, no light pollution, and a sky where the aurora borealis can go from nothing to a full green arc in minutes. On active nights the curtains ripple across the whole frame; on quiet ones the stars keep the watch, 24/7. The bears gather in October and November; this camera's business is the sky.
Prime months are February and March, for the clearest skies, with a second window in late August and September. Churchill runs on Central time, UTC−6, UTC−5 in summer; under the oval a Kp of 4 makes a good night, and the show peaks between 11 pm and 2 am.
