The northern lights cam just turned on and it's the perfect season for ghostly skies [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

The northern lights in Churchill, Canada.IMAGE: MADISON STEVENS

BY MARK KAUFMAN
9 HOURS AGO

The same live webcam site that brings you Alaska's glorious, salmon-hungry fat bears just turned on its webcam in the northern reaches of Churchill, Canada. This town, famous for the polar bears who regularly stroll down its streets, is ideally situated to watch the glowing, emerald northern lights, aka the Aurora borealis.

The feed can be streamed on explore.org, and the opportunity to witness the lights (from thousands of miles away) has been helped along by the research organizations Polar Bears International and the Churchill Northern Studies Center.

"There are over 300 nights of lights a year in Churchill," said Krista Wright, the executive director of Polar Bears International.

"It's definitely really cool," she said. "You can get lights that are dancing and moving."

But the best time to watch is now, Wright emphasized, specifically during February and March. There tends to be clear, cloudless nights over Churchill this time of year.

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