Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 60D
Canon 16-35, Tokina 11-16 Shot in RAW format. Manual mode, Exposure was 30 seconds on most Milky Way shots, 15-30 seconds on Aurora. ISO 1600 - 6400 F2.8. 3 second intervals between exposures The Aurora were shot in central South Dakota in September 2011 and near Madison, Wisconsin on October 25, 2011. Most of the video was shot near the White River in central South Dakota during September and October 2011, there are other shots from Arches National Park in Utah, and Canyon of the Ancients area of Colorado during June 2011.
I should really click through to these pages though. Is this yours? It's beautiful. You're really lucky to have seen the aurora like that, I've been trying to catch it recently with the latest solar flares, but every time it's occurring the weather has been too bad or it hasn't come far enough south.
But in all reality, if you know what you're doing and are in an area with little to no light pollution, these shots are easy to pull off.