Late night light show

Photo: Clifford Pringle

Mother Nature put on a show over the North Okanagan overnight.

Northern Lights lit up the sky in a dazzling display.

Clifford Pringle snapped a beautiful pic of the lights looking north from Parker Cove over Okanagan Lake.

The aurora borealis - northern lights – form when charged particles emitted from the sun during a solar flare penetrate the earth's magnetic shield and collide with atoms and molecules in our atmosphere. These collisions result in countless little bursts of light, called photons, which make up the aurora.