The image is real. Check the spaceweather.com site for many, many more aurora photos taken and submitted by photographers all over the world. Most include a description of location, camera type, exposure and settings used to achieve the shot. The site is fraccing awesome, as are the Northern Lights… which is why people spend big dollars to go on vacations to locations in hopes of viewing them with the naked eye!

@ Sean Martin: Well said. I bet half the people who think every amazing image is photoshopped, also believe every faked “ghost” photo they've ever seen is real. (Now, let's wait for the other half to protest that they don't.)

To all those calling shop because there are “two suns”, how about you learn something about photography. It's the moon. In a photograph with a long exposure.  It seems that you guys are forgetting that the moon's light is just the sun's light being reflected, and so, when set to a long exposure it will look like a miniature sun.

Yes, it's shopped, but still a great image.

Obvious shop, there is only one sun our solar system and you cannot see those things while it is up.

@ DonRocin (FFFFFFFFFFFFFFotoshop) I don't think so. It's just the Northern Lights over a guy on a beach. Yes, nature really is that awesome.

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