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Nordleys on the Fish Rack
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Mar 3 04:21:01 2006 UTC
A large part of the diet in this part of Norway consists of fish. These
are old drying racks seen against the backdrop of active northern lights
on the evening of February 6, 2006.
I used a 38mm lens on a 6x7cm. medium format camera and Kodak E200 film
for this common scene along the coast of Andoya Island.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography contact at
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Moonrise at Andoya
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Mar 3 03:57:01 2006 UTC
The moon rises from the southeast horizon into a sky filled with aurora.
This was the evening of February 16, 2006 on the Island of
Andoya,Norway.
Photo : 38mm lens 6x7cm medium format Kodak E200 film
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
contact at auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit www.auroradude.com
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Laser Beams in My Dreams
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Mar 3 03:31:01 2006 UTC
This image shows the aurora in the southern sky with Orion peeking over
the mountains. If you look closely you can see the twin beams of green
laser light from the ALOMAR observatory on Andoya Island, Norway. I took
this shot from the rocket range near Andenes using a 6x7 cm medium
format camera and Kodak E200film.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography contact at
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit www.auroradude.com
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Turbulant Sky
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Mar 2 23:39:01 2006 UTC
It was a lot of fun taking shots from this final leg of my journey to
Norway and back. This leg, on the early Morning of February 21, 2006,
was from Anchorage to Homer in a Dehavlin twin Otter. There was a lot of
wind and it was very turbulent. Most of the wise folks had stayed on the
ground and it was only myself and a young Russian that had ventured into
the sky on this particular flight. The aurora is actually visible as a
faint arc to the extreme right of this panorama put togeather from a
shot of the interior of the plane and one of the exterior looking out
the window as we bounced along over Sterling and Soldotna, Alaska a
little before 5:00 a.m. local time.
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Aurora and Moon on the Road to Glory
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Mar 2 22:04:01 2006 UTC
The view from the airplane was simply stunning. Here was the full moon
blazing away and the aurora borealis. I wasn't sure about being on the
south side of the Airbus but at 70 degrees north or so it was perfect.
The auroral oval was well to the south so this worked out rather nicely.
I pressed the lens of my 35mm to the window and shot frame after frame
using experience to judge the length of exposure. I wasn't sure if they
would work from a moving airplane at all but I have learned to take the
shot anyhow - something is better than nothing. This is about 1:00 a.m.
local time somewhere north of Hudson's Bay and on the way towards
Greenland.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
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Wing Walking at 34,000 feet
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Mar 2 21:42:01 2006 UTC
You know how sometimes it seems that the aurora is so close that you can
touch it? Well this one seemed to be walking right on the wing of the
Airbus. This is looking south somewhere near Baffin Island with the moon
a blazing full.
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Aurora and moon at 34,000 feet
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Mar 2 21:27:01 2006 UTC
Here's yet another shot from the window of the airplane taken somewhere
north of Hudson's Bay Canada in the early hours of February 15, 2006.
copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson contact at auroradude@acsalaska.net or
visit www.auroradude.com
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Aurora from 34,000 feet
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Mar 2 21:08:01 2006 UTC
This shot of the aurora borealis and the nearly full moon is taken from
34,000 feet over Baffin Island at about 75 degrees north latitude. The
view is looking south out of the window of a Scandanavian Air Airbus at
about 1:00 a.m. local time on February 15, 2006.
copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
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Aurora over Booster Bay
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Mar 2 19:16:01 2006 UTC
Here is a shot of the nordleys over Booster Bay at the Andoya Rocket
Range, Norway located at 69.2 degrees N. latitude in the heart of the
auroral zone. This image was acquired using a home-built 6x7cm medium
format camera and Kodak E100G film on the night of February 16 -17
around midnight.
copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography contact at
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit www.auroradude.com
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First image Booster bay
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Mar 2 08:30:01 2006 UTC
This would be the first of several images I wouldl like to share. It is
taken from Andoya , Norway looking in the general direction of home.
Note that many directions look like home when you are this far from it.
Got whale?
Copyright (c) 2006 Dennis C. Anderson night Trax Photography
www.auroradude.com
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Glowing Summit at Augustine Volcano
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Feb 8 21:33:01 2006 UTC
This is an image of the glowing summit of Augustine Volcano during a
lava dome building phase. It was taken at 2:00 a.m. the morning of
January 17, 2006. It is a 5 minute exposure by moonlight with a 6x6
camera and 400mm lens.
The volcano, located about 75 miles SW of Homer, Alaska, erupted
explosively at around 8:00 a.m. on this morning with a spectacular show
of fireworks and has been in a continuous phose of eruption ever since.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson
Night Trax Photography
contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit www.auroradude.com
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Augustine Sunset
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Jan 20 00:30:01 2006 UTC
Augustine Volcano is seen here shortly after sunset steaming into the
night. The volcano has since erupted several times. The ash and haze
certainly inhibits viewing the night sky.
(c) copyright Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
contact at auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Augustine Volcano
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Dec 29 22:30:01 2005 UTC
It seems that there is never a dull moment living in Alaska. We have
several active volcanos. This one, located about 65 miles SW of here
(near Homer), has recently began to produce stam and minor ash eruptions
and is possibly on the brink of a major eruption. I used my wife's
little digital camera at the eyepiece of my 11x80 binoculars to capture
this image on December 27, 2005.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Crepuscular Rays
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Dec 29 22:16:01 2005 UTC
A nice display of crepuscular rays is visible from our perch outside of
Homer, Alaska near the winter solstice. This view is looking south.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Anti-crepuscular Christmas
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Dec 29 22:01:01 2005 UTC
Not long after our late Christmas dawn a beautiful display of
anticrepuscular rays is seen in this pano stretching from west to north.
I used photoshop to stitch three digital images in creating this pano.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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The Beauty Above
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Mon Oct 24 17:53:01 2005 UTC
A spectacular crowning aurora is captured in the sky above Homer, Alaska
on the night of October 28-29, 2003.
I used a 6x6 medium format camera equipped with a 30mm fish-eye lens to
record the phenomenon on film. The image spans 120 degrees from side to
side and 180 degrees diagonally. It is only with such extreme wide-angle
lenses that the aurora might begin to be captured in its full glory
while it is filling the whole sky.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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A Blast From the Past
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Sun Oct 23 20:15:01 2005 UTC
When things are quiet on the aurora front, or I'm snowed in, it gives me
a chance to go through images from the past that I had skipped over.
Here's an eerie crowning shot from the night of October 28-29, 2003. A
red devil seems to eminate from the pentagram of stars containing Algol
"to ancient Arabs-the demon star". This pentagram also makes up the head
of the slain Medeussa in the constellation of Perseus. To look at this
image it is easy to imagine why red auroras could make so many cultures
uneasy.
I used a 6x6 medium format camera and 30mm fish-eye lens to capture the
scene on film.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
contact at auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit www.auroradude.com
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Virga at Sunset
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Sep 30 23:27:01 2005 UTC
A nice example of virga, precipitation that evaporates before it reaches
the surface, seen at sunset from our deck in Homer Alaska this week.
Kinda look like big jelly fish.
copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Sun Pillar and Crepuscular rays
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Sep 28 03:09:01 2005 UTC
A couple atmospheric phenomenon that made for a nice sunset on winter
solstice 2004. Taken from our deck near Homer, Alaska looking SSW at the
end of a short day.
(c) copyright Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at
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White Night
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Sun Sep 25 18:29:01 2005 UTC
The stars of winter constellations are seen above the southern horizon
and the bright moon is at left in this fish-eye view of wintertime
Alaska.
It is late January along the Gulkana River just south of the central
Alaska Range. I used a 30mm lens that projects an image circle about
3-1/2 inches in diameter onto 4x5 film. The view extends 180 degrees in
all directions - from East to West and fron straight overhead to the
legs of the tripod below.
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Rays of Violet
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Sun Sep 25 19:13:01 2005 UTC
Beautiful tall rays of violet light reach above the green aurora and far
into space as seen from near Homer, Alaska in the wee hours of August
10, 2005. Our space shuttle had landed a couple days earlier and
commander Eileen Collins commented on the beauties of space flight: "We
saw the southern lights at night. In fact we flew right through the
aurora!" Can you only imagine.....? Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson
Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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A Colorful Night
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Mon Sep 12 06:10:01 2005 UTC
The sky is aglow with color on this short August 10, 2005 night as
viewed from near Homer, Alaska. The flickering aurora was sporting its
familiar green as well as a blue-violet which was found on tall rays
reaching high above the Earth's shadow into direct sunlight. The
northern horizon was painted with warm color as ice crystals in
high-altitude noctiluscent clouds reflected sunlight that was then
filtered through a thick layer of smoke from summer forest fires still
raging in the interior. The familiar "Big Dipper" is seen at top left in
this wide-angle view using a 6x7 medium-format camera and 38mm lens on
Kodak E100VS film. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax
Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Green Spiral
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Aug 18 09:10:01 2005 UTC
An interesting small spiral feature is seen here embeded in the green
aurora as seen in the eastern sky early August 10, 2005. I have seen a
few of these but not very often. I used a 6x9 medium-format camera and
50mm lens to capture it on film. The planet Mars is at right in this
wide-angle view.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Summer Time Blues
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Sun Sep 25 18:57:01 2005 UTC
Tall rays of blue-violet light light are seen here in the western sky
near Homer, Alaska on the early morning of August 10, 2005. This special
emission from nitrogen molecules can be difficult for our eyes to see as
they are not very sensitive in this part of the spectrum at night. I was
just barely able to see the color myself on this occasion. Film does not
have our limitations however and is able to record it easily. If the
emissions are bright enough, we too can see it vividly but these are
rare occasions indeed. I used a 6x7 medium-format camera and 38mm
wide-angle lens to capture this scene on Kodak E100VS film. Copyright
(c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit www.auroradude.com
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"Smoke Screen"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Aug 17 21:50:02 2005 UTC
The sun is seen at the upper left here mostly obscured by a thick cloud
of smoke from a run-away forest fire located about 10 miles away. This
shot,looking over Cook Inlet from the Lower Kenai Peninsula, was taken
in late April as the large fire broke out even before the start of the
"official" fire season in Alaska. The fire raged out of control for days
as there were few firefighters and less equipment availible this early
in the season. With a lot of luck and a little help - in the form of
rain - it was eventually brought under control and suppressed but it was
just the beginning of another busy season for the fire crews.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
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"Noctiluscent Dawn"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Aug 17 21:19:01 2005 UTC
The aurora was no longer visible as the approaching dawn had wiped out
the last traces but the much brighter noctiluscent clouds were still
ablaze as seen here in the northeast, from near Homer, Alaska, at around
4:10 a.m. local time. I used a 6x6medium format camera with an 80mm lens
and Fuji provia 100F for this last shot before heading to the barn.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit www.auroradude.com
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Nov 3 21:27:01 2005 UTC
At last, darkness is here! This August 13th morning will probably be the
last time that I see any twilight at local midnight (2:00 a.m.) here at
61 degrees north for the summer but it can be a magical time when the
direct sunlight hitting the upper parts of the aurora causes nitrogen
molocules to produce a beautiful blue-violet coloring. I took this shot
from Lower Summit Lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula about 1-1/2 hours
drive south of Anchorage using a 6x9 medium-format camera with a 50mm
wide-angle lens and Kodak E100G film.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit www.auroradude.com
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Noctiluscent Clouds and the Aurora
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Aug 18 02:51:01 2005 UTC
As dawn approached, the aurora began to fade rapidly but the rare
display of noctiluscent clouds had increased in intensity. The sun slid
around eastward below the northern Horizon until it had reached a point
where the geometry was perfect. This allowed its bright light to be
reflected from the water ice crystals that make up these mysterious
high-altitude clouds. I used a 6x7 medium format camera and 75mm lens
with Kodak E100 VS film to capture the colorful scene on August 10, 2005
at about 3:30 a.m. local time. (c) Copyright Dennis C. Anderson Night
Trax Photography Contact at auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Darkness Falls
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Mon Sep 26 07:51:01 2005 UTC
As the long days of our short northern summer begin to give way to the
returning darkness, the auroras finally become visible again. I
photographed this nice bit of activity on the morning of August 11, 2005
from near Homer, Alaska. What looks like a sunset on the horizon is
actually a display of rare noctiluscent clouds made reddish by smoke in
the air. A 6x7 medium format camera with a 38mm lens and Kodak E100VS
film were used for the photo. (c) Copyright Dennis C. Anderson Night
Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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On the Edge of Darkness
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Aug 18 02:25:01 2005 UTC
August is an exciting time as darkness begins to return to 60 degrees
north and with it comes the aurorae. Here, tall rays reach up out of the
Earth's shadow into direct sunlight and are transformed into a beautiful
shade of violet. Below, a green aurora dances in the treetops while a
rare display of noctiluscent clouds graces the horizon. They are painted
reddish by the smoke of this summer's forest fires. I took this shot a
little past 2:00 a.m. local time on August 10, 2005 during the darkest
part of our short night using a 6x7 medium format camera equipped with a
75mm lens and Kodak E100G film. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night
Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit
www.auroradude.com
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