The circles we move in

Tonight started close to town in the east, and ended close to town in the west, but there was a lot in between.

Not wanting to overplay our hand by running far out in the east, we did stay closer to Yellowknife at first. The clouds were, in classic October fashion, very low and fast moving carrying a lot of light pollution from town - problematic while we were seeing very quiet auroral conditions. Even still, some visible aurora came and went between the clouds at various stops.

After three stops out in the east, we had been wholly eaten up by cloud cover, so now well after midnight, we backtracked to town and over to the west where we once again met some stars through lighter cloud. Finally, the quiet auroral conditions had relented and even through the cloud we could see as much.

Stars were eaten up quickly again, and in one final move a few kilometres back toward town, in a heartbeat, we were in the clear. Clear clear.

We tucked into a small driveway, the milky way and aurora overhead, and finished our night off with the deepest beauty sighs and gratitude. It felt like heaven, and a really long night.