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Coronal mass ejections are large explosions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun's corona. When explosions arrive at the Earth's magnetosphere, this phenomena is known as geomagnetic storms, which can cause large scale damage to the facilities on the earth. The dynamic in the aurora is one of the ways that the upper atmosphere responds to the geomagnetic storms. The all-sky imager at the South Pole has been using the same optical system since 2006, which allows us to track the aurora activities at the same site for one full 11-year solar cycle. The imager is equipped with a filter that has two narrow 4nm wide passbands at 427.8 nm (blue line) and 630 nm (red line). Due to the location, the camera is capable of viewing the aurora 24 hours a day in the Southern winter for 3 months. In this work, we compare observations of the sun's 11 year cycle and the auroras activity to find the correlation of the …