If your phone has it, enable Night Mode for the best setting. If your phone has Manual mode, configure the ISO to the 800 to 1600 range to decrease blurriness; the shutter speed to between five and 15 seconds to capture the northern lights in dark settings; and the focus to infinity or locked onto a distant light source.

So while there's no guarantee, there's definitely a chance they'll be visible across parts of North Texas again tonight. When visible, the Northern Lights may appear as pink, purple, green or even red glows that ripple across the sky. Some North Texans who spotted them earlier this week described a faint pink haze stretching over the horizon.

Residents across Texas have been sharing stunning photos to KSAT Connect of the aurora lighting up the night sky Tuesday during the G4-level geomagnetic storm.

The aurora borealis shimmered in stunning ruby red over a church in rural Texas on the evening of Tuesday,1. According to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, an “unusual triple-whammy of solar outbursts,

Geomagnetic storms brought the northern lights to much of the U.S. and some parts of Florida, on the night of Nov. 11, 2025.