向北，一直向北！最新极光小集（图） - 珍珠湾ART

An evening of very soft and generally slow moving auroras, but they were already visible overhead in the twilight sky as I headed out to my shooting spot, which was about 40 minutes away. I kept glancing up and realizing what I was missing. Auroras against a twilight sky can be stunning. Almost ran to the hilltop to beat the retreating sun. Auroras were in the sky constantly all throughout the evening. Slow moving patterns of arcs came and went endlessly. What a night, and even caught a meteor again. I love it when that happens. Sometimes life is good. Most shots at 6 seconds, but twilight I used 2-4 seconds with ISO 500 at twilight, ISO 1000 in dark. F2.8. What made it so special was that it was the 40th birthday of my lovely twin girls!

Just north of Fairbanks, Alaska
Apr. 5, 2010

Here in the North, the nights are getting shorter and brighter very quickly now and the midnight sun period is just around the corner. Tonight`s display started just as it got dark enough to see and lasted for the entire night into the early morning. These days are some of the last possibilities to watch the auroras and tonights outburst was a very nice way to end a great aurora season. It was also the first time for me to watch auroras while at the same time be able to listen at the singing of spring-birds like the oystercatchers which have steted to arrive in the North. Nikon D3, Nikkor 20mm f/2,8, ISO 640-800, 4 - 13 sec exposure.

Kvaløya, Norway
Apr. 2, 2010

Another night with nice displays, at around 23:30 local time. Many thanks to everyone at Spaceweather for giving us valuable information about solar activity and aurora forecasts. Photo details: Canon EOS 1D MKII, Canon 17-40mm f/4.0, 30 sec.exp and 320 ISO.

Harstad, Norway
Apr. 7, 2010

Abisko, Swedish Lapland
Apr. 7, 2010

According to the auroral oval I should have seen auroras, but alas! As I was heading to bed, I took a last look outside, and there it was! I grabbed the camera and tripod and ran outside and captured these photos, due north facing Oslo, before it all was over. A very short lived, but great spectacle. Nikon D700, 24-70mm F2.8,6sec, 1600 ISO. 59.82363, 10.75304

Sandbukta, south of Oslo, Norway.
Apr. 12, 2010

I was looking at the sunset to see Venus and Mercury, while I was waiting for the sky to get dark to photograph auroras. I didn't have to wait that long, the auroras was very bright early this evening. So I got lucky and managed to get the red glow from the sunset, Venus, Mercury and auroras in the same pictures.

Brønnøysund, Norway
Apr. 5, 2010

There was a fantastic blast of Auroras tonight. To bad I had to get ready for work tomorrow. It was a fantastic view. The Aurora was really active and had lots of movements. Most of these image are taken with ISO 800 and 15-20s with my Canon EOS 40D

Kvaløya, Troms, Norway
Feb. 15, 2010

Nikon D700 Iso 1250-1600 10-20s

Kola peninsula, Russia, Mt. Khibiny
Feb. 17, 2010

The photo captures the launch of a sounding rocket from the University of Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range with a nice auroral display in the background.

Photo details: Canon EOS 18mm, 30sec exposure at F3.5, ISO 800

Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Feb. 16, 2010

It was cloudy and rainy all day, but suddenly the sky cleared up and the northern lights danced for us!

Bø in Vesterålen, North of Norway
Jan. 20, 2010

Photo details: Nikon D50, 200 ASA, 15 to 25 sec exposure. Most photos were taken with a 20mm lens with a f-stop of 2.5. A few photos were taken with a 50mm lens and a f-stop of 1.8.

10 miles Northeast Of Fairbanks, AK, USA
Jan. 3, 2010

Nice aurora display just before and at morning twilight.

These were taken in the Knik River Valley near Palmer Alaska.
Jan. 20, 2010