APOD: Ghost Aurora over Canada (2023 Oct 22)

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Ghost Aurora over Canada

Explanation: What does this aurora look like to you? While braving the cold to watch the skies above northern Canada early one morning in 2013, a most unusual aurora appeared. The aurora definitely appeared to be shaped like something, but what? Two ghostly possibilities recorded by the astrophotographer were "witch" and "goddess of dawn", but please feel free to suggest your own Halloween-enhanced impressions. Regardless of fantastical pareidolic interpretations, the pictured aurora had a typical green color and was surely caused by the scientifically commonplace action of high-energy particles from space interacting with oxygen in Earth's upper atmosphere. In the image foreground, at the bottom, is a frozen Alexandra Falls, while evergreen trees cross the middle.

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[Mortedartius]

Zeus with his Eagle? Not very Halloweenie, but I am an Australian anyway (though yes, Halloween has infiltrated Australia). The Eagle (on Zeus's shoulder) is really the defining thing, whether the rest looks like Zeus, maybe all his robes, is debatable.

[pamela.mellor@gmail.com]

Archangel Aurora

[Royalbeagle]

It looks like a phoenix carrying a lorax to me.

[wilddouglascounty]

Woman with a pheasant flying right overhead

[starshiprider]

Phoenix and the Dementor

[Maxedwell7]

It think the apparition looks like a lady falconer.

[darkwing4]

I imagined the shape of an angel and a dove flying overhead,,

[Aslandra]

Hello !

I, too, thought angels but then...thought of CS Lewis and the Space Trilogy and so I'll suggest eldila or oyeresu, or perhaps even The Old One, Maleldil, and The Third One ? I'm envisioning a third apparition in front of the large figure....
<G> The wonders of Creation !

[Xetal1947]

Gotta be Santa's Sunday best beard!

[orin stepanek]

Oh yes; Halloween = Witches!

Now there's a cute kitten goblin!

[a.niwa]

How about Medusa?

[TPPM]

A person, possibly a woman, with a bird possibly a raven on or over their head. Possibly an apperation of significance to Native Americans/First Nations.

[Gadgetgirl58]

It’s the Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit.

[chef.mabes]

Hello there! I honestly think that the image looks like “Gandalf the White Wizard”
The image is simply breathtaking! Thank you so much for sharing it!

[SpaceCowboy]

Looks like Dumbledore and his phoenix overhead.