A Little Bit Of Everything...Including Aurora Borealis?

Having received reports of Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) activity as far south as the state of Arkansas I grabbed my camera and set out in hopes of catching the spectacle for myself just after 9:30 PM on Monday, October 24, 2011. This view of the northeast sky was taken around 9:43 PM about a half-mile north of County Home Road on the C Avenue Extension north of Marion, Iowa. Cloud streaks along the horizon show up reddish, possibly illuminated by the Aurora? Also splashed across the sky here was the constellation Auriga (left), dominated by its bright 0.06-magnitude star Capella; the Pleiades cluster at right center and the -2.92-magnitude planet Jupiter at upper right. Below the Pleiades is the constellation Taurus. This image was a 20-second exposure at f/5, 1600 ISO and an 18mm focal length.