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Another Icelandic rainbow/waterfall - Skógarfoss
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Thu Aug 25 16:13:01 2005 UTC
Inspired by the previous posting of Paul Glynn from Gullfoss (nice photo!)
here's one from Skógarfoss, south Iceland in March 2003. Iceland truly is a
great place for waterfalls and rainbows! © Andy Casely,
andycasely@hotmail.com.
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aurora photography 101...
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Tue Jan 25 13:00:01 2005 UTC
...get away from the stretlights! Here's a 3-photo panorama from the very
nice display of 21st January 2005, looking from the Royal Observatory on
Blackford Hill acros Edinburgh in Scotland. A fine display to the eye, and
occasionally very impressive with rays and curtains almost to the zenith,
but despite Photoshop's best attempts, it remains largely obscured by the
city skyglow. The red rays reported by others from elsewhere in Scotland
and northern England were resoutely hidden on this occasion. 3 x 15s
exposure with Casio QV3500EX digi camera. © Andy Casely,
andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Aurora, 30th August 2003
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Wed Nov 17 11:34:01 2004 UTC
In amongst all these photos of the November 2004 storm, which I managed to
miss entirely :-( here's a photo from last year in Iceland which I found
recently in my collection. 20 second exposure with a Casio QV3500EX digital
camera. andycasely@hotmail.com
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Nacreous clouds from the Old Course
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Sat Oct 16 16:21:01 2004 UTC
A scanned photo of the amazing display of nacreous clouds visible across
parts of the UK in February 2000. The picture was taken in broad daylight
from the southern end of the beach at St Andrews (looking across the Old
Course), with the Swilken Burn in the foreground. People were looking up as
if thre was a UFO in the sky! © Andy Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com.
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A guarded Landie
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Mon Sep 20 16:03:01 2004 UTC
Our faithful Landrover, 'Eddie' provides the foreground for, and is guarded
by, a pair of sundogs in Akureyri, northern Iceland. © Andy Casely,
andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Arcs
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Mon Jan 19 20:24:02 2004 UTC
The beginning to the entertaining night described in 'Green Snow'. Some
really nice arcs of light in the twilight on 28th March 2003 from the
Egilssel hut in the mountains east of Vatnajökull, Iceland. Inside for beer,
Brennivin and reindeer liver...lovely! © Andrew Casely,
andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Cittàgazze - or Iceland...
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Mon Jan 19 19:53:02 2004 UTC
If anyone's ever read 'Northern Lights' (and the rest of the 'His Dark
Materials' trilogy- superb read!), at times, the city of Cittàgazze is
visible through the Northern Lights - which make the fabric of our Universe
thin so we can see other universes! It's not Svalbard, but Iceland, and
there's no city visible but... if you imagine... © Andy Casely,
andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Clean blue and green
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Mon Jan 19 19:15:01 2004 UTC
A crisp, clear evening at the end of a long day of fieldwork last summer in
northern Iceland, and joined by a beautiful simple arc of aurora which had
several blue rays embedded within it. No lights (or light pollution) for
miles! © Andy Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Lunar halo, 8th January 2004
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Tue Jan 13 18:12:01 2004 UTC
Lunar halos usually appear whitish to the eye, as they're quite faint, but
this one displayed its full colours to both eye and camera. Taken from
Edinburgh, Scotland, 10 second exposure with a Casio QV3500EX digital
camera. © Andrew Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com
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Bottled magic!
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Sat Dec 13 13:48:02 2003 UTC
Fieldwork fun in Iceland - as the vapours flow from Glenfiddich's fine
bottle (held by Hannah and Jill). Blurring not (entirely) due to
alcoholism... © Andy Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com
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Illumination
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Mon Dec 8 11:55:01 2003 UTC
Aurora can make a huge difference to the lighting of the sky. These two
photos (same exposure settings) were taken about ten minutes apart on the
27th August 2003 from northern Iceland, as a very close Mars skimmed the
southern horizon. The left-hand image just had the green band in the south
and the foreground was dark. A pale green featureless aurora then invaded
the entire sky, flooding from west to east. Though it wasn't particularly
bright or intense, its total light in a moonless sky was enough to
illuminate the valley and glaciers in green. © Andy Casely,
andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Mars and auroral light, 27th August 2003
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Mon Dec 8 11:20:01 2003 UTC
The evening after Mars' closest approach to Earth. Camping in a
north-facing valley in northern Iceland on fieldwork, and treated to a
blazing Mars skimming the horizon of corrie glaciers in a sparkling sky,
with the glaciers and landscape lit green by auroral light. Uranus is also
in the photo. 60 second exposure on Casio QV3500EX. © Andy Casely,
andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Red aurora #2, November 20th 2003
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Fri Nov 21 10:07:01 2003 UTC
More colourful aurorae from Holyrood Park, Edinburgh. 20 second exposure
with Casio QV3500-EX digital camera. © Andy Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Red aurora, November 20th 2003
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Fri Nov 21 09:41:01 2003 UTC
A bright red curtain extending to the zenith through Auriga and Perseus on
another memorable night for watching the aurora in Edinburgh. The photo was
taken from Holyrood Park near the centre of Edinburgh - it must have been
really good from dark skies! 20 second exposure with Casio QV3500-EX digital
camera. © Andy Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Aberdeenshire sunrise montage, 31st May 2003
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Mon Jun 2 13:24:02 2003 UTC
Here's a montage of the closing phases of the annular eclipse as seen from
western Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Sun was rising out of a bank of mist
which obscured the annular phase itself. None of the photos were filtered,
thanks to the mist! © Andy Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Crescent sunrise#2, 31st May 2003
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Mon Jun 2 10:56:01 2003 UTC
A second photo of sunrise from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on Saturday morning
at 04:55am local time. Photo with a Casio QV3500EX digital camera. © Andrew
Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Crescent sunrise#1, 31st May 2003
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Mon Jun 2 10:42:01 2003 UTC
The beautiful sunrise from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on Saturday morning at
04:52am local time. The sun is just clearing the banks of coastal fog that
hid annularity. The haze allowed for photos of the eclipse without filters,
and for a very nice scene. Photo with a Casio QV3500EX digital camera. ©
Andrew Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Green Snow
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Wed Apr 9 13:53:03 2003 UTC
A truly breathtaking show of lights on 28th March 2003 from the Egilssel hut
in the mountains east of Vatnajökull, Iceland. This was some of the
brightest surora of an evening of constant activity all over the sky, nearly
washing out Taurus, and girdling Orion. It was bright enough to illumiate
the snow in the foreground of this 20 second exposure with a Casio QV3500EX
digital camera. The nearest house is 25km away, and the nearest town (still
fewer than 2000 people) is 35km away over the mountains, so the skies were
perfectly clear and dark, and absolutely ideal for watching aurorae. ©
Andrew Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com.
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Noctilucent clouds over the Edinburgh skyline
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Tue Feb 25 10:37:01 2003 UTC
A fine display of noctilucent clouds, with the outline of Arthur's Seat
to the right hand side of the photo. Taken at midnight on the 24th-25th
June 2001; 2-second exposure with Canon PowerShot S20.
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Lightning from Edinburgh, June 26th 2001
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Wed Feb 19 14:30:01 2003 UTC
Taken during the best thunderstorm in Edinburgh for quite a few years, this
nearby flash took me by surprise and lit up the room! You can see the
camera reflected in the window. I wasn't so fortunate in later photos taken
through an open window. Canon PowerShot S20 digital camera. © Andrew
Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com
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January 9th 2001 lunar eclipse - partial phase
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Wed Feb 19 13:56:01 2003 UTC
The moon is emerging from the Earth's shadow in this photo taken with
eyepiece projection through my 8 3/4" Dobsonian telescope with a Canon
PowerShot S20 digital camera. © Andrew Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com
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January 9th 2001 lunar eclipse - totality
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Wed Feb 19 13:50:01 2003 UTC
Unfortunately the photo is slightly out-of-focus, but it shows the reddish
totally eclipsed moon. The blurred star below the moon was occulted later
in the eclipse. Eyepiece projection through 8 3/4" Dobsonian telescope with
Canon PowerShot S20 digital camera. © Andrew Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com
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Photo panorama of Icelandic aurora, 27th August 2002
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Wed Dec 11 17:12:01 2002 UTC
This is a composition of four 20-second exposures looking across
Hornafjörður towards the southern outlet glaciers of Vatnajökull. You can
see a fainter arc inside the main arc that went overhead. The foreground,
clouds and glaciers are illuminated by the near-full moon. Taken with a
Casio QV3500EX digital camera. The image was kindly processed by LeRoy
Zimmerman (www.photosymphony.com), greatly improving and tidying up the
composition to give a better impression of the scene. Many thanks LeRoy! ©
Andrew Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com
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Leonid meteor, 19th November 2002
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Mon Dec 2 14:40:01 2002 UTC
Of 92 photos taken in the two hours up to the first Leonid peak, this was
one of only 3 Leonids I caught, largely due to light pollution and a hazy
Edinburgh sky limiting the exposure time. This was despite visually
observing over two hundred meteors during the same time! 10 second exposure
from the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh with a Casio QV3500EX camera. © Andrew
Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com
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Quiet auroral band, Iceland, 19th September 2002
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Sun Dec 1 16:39:01 2002 UTC
It seems that from Iceland, nearly every clear dark night has an aurora of
some sort! The only clear sky in 10 nights produced a pleasant display from
near Seljaland, southern Iceland, and allowed a group of undergraduates to
see it, many for the first time. 15 second exposure with Casio QV3500EX
digital camera. © Andrew Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com
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Arc over ice, 25th August 2002
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Sun Dec 1 16:16:01 2002 UTC
A night of quiet auroral activity over Hornafjörður, Iceland, looking
towards some of the outlet glaciers of Vatnajökull. The foreground is lit by
the moon. 20 second exposure with Casio QV3500EX digital camera. © Andrew
Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com
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Aurora from Akureyri, Iceland, 18th August 2002
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Sun Dec 1 16:00:01 2002 UTC
My first reasonably successful Icelandic aurora photo, taken in evening
twilight from Akureyri campsite on a stunningly clear evening. The view is
southwest as an active pulse of green aurora appeared and moved overhead. 6
second exposure with Casio QV3500EX digital camera. © Andrew Casely,
andycasely@hotmail.com
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First Quarter Moon, February 2000
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Sun Dec 1 16:53:01 2002 UTC
Photo of the first quarter Moon taken with a tripod-mounted Canon PowerShot
S20 digital camera directly through the eyepiece of my 8 1/2-inch Dobsonian
telescope. © Andrew Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com
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Icelandic aurora in moonlight, 27th August 2002
Submitted by:
Andrew Casely at Sun Dec 1 16:59:02 2002 UTC
This scene was lit by the near-full moon in the south, illuminating the
foreground, clouds and glaciers (Öræfajökull is in the clouds below the
auroral band, and Skálafellsjökull is to the right). The reflection in
Hornafjörður was a bonus! 40 second exposure with a Casio QV3500EX digital
camera. © Andrew Casely, andycasely@hotmail.com
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