One interesting thing about the really cold North Dakota nights is the amount of ice crystals in the air. It stays bright all night because of the diffused city light in the air, and there’s a nice soft glow to objects such as our beloved capitol. I was driving home and couldn’t resist a quick snapshot.

Really bright sources of light tend to shoot spires of light straight up into the sky, which are visible for quite a long distance. It’s almost like a “synthetic aurora” in a sense, except they don’t dance like the real thing.