This was taken on the evening of Aug 4, 2023 at West Lake, close to the RASC Prince George observatory and it required 3 separate exposures to be able to capture all of the elements. Since the aurora is bright and moving, I took a 4 second exposure and that made the milky way and the foreground extremely underexposed. To get as much detail as I could out of the milky way, I used a star tracker to track the sky and stacked the shots for noise reduction, tracking made the aurora and the foreground blurry. To get as much detail from the foreground as I could, I took a single 2 minute exposure making the aurora blurry and the milky way trail. The devastation part of the image is the wildfire smoke along the horizon that took over the skies a few days later and there haven't been many clear nights since, the rising moon illuminated the smoke cloud.

Nikon D5300
Samyang 14mm 2.8 lens
Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Sky 10 x 60 second exposures
Foreground 1 x 120 second exposure
Aurora 1 x 4 second exposure
Processed with Photoshop and Pixinsight