Photographer captures rare, spectacular Northern Lights show in Bay Area

Bay Area photographer Mike Kruze captured a rare Northern Lights display at Lake Berryessa in Napa County on Sunday, April 23, 2023. (Mike Kruze / Twitter: @Mikeroburst / Instagram: @mike.kruze.photography / www.mikekruze.com) NAPA, Calif. – A major geomagnetic storm last week led to rare and spectacular viewings of Northern Lights in California, and a Bay Area photographer was among the lucky sky-gazers who managed to capture the extraordinary event.

Photographer Mike Kruze posted a stunning image taken from Lake Berryessa’s southeast side, off highway 128 Napa county on Sunday.

Kruze, a San Jose software engineer, who makes it a hobby to capture nature, landscape and weather photos, said he saw a lot of chatter on social media earlier in the day about Northern Light sightings from Europe and the East Coast, and he knew he might have a chance to view one himself.

So he took his camera and headed north, […]

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