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And in the southern sky. Fairbanks 4/5/06 PM.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Thu Apr 6 23:17:01 2006 UTC
ASA 800, 8 sec. f3.5.
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Nautical Twilight. 2006/04/05 PM.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Thu Apr 6 23:01:01 2006 UTC
A very mild night for this time of year. Migratory waterfowl have just
returned to Fairbanks.
The clouds remained at bay. This picture is looking west.
An owl called in the woods behind me. A fox barked in the distance.
The neighborhood dogs howled in excitement.
ASA 800, 8 sec. f3.5.
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Diffuse aurora. 3/19/06 11:37 PM. Fairbanks, Alaska.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Mon Mar 20 19:49:01 2006 UTC
Late in the evening the clouds started to clear, revealing a static
diffuse aurora before midnight.
I stood out waiting for some activty, but it was a slow night. There was
a slight increase in activity, but
it wasn't enough to keep me out, so I headed home around 1:00 AM. Then
of course activity started picking up! Very mild temperatures.
ASA 800, 15 sec. f2.8.
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To the East. 3/20/06. 1:31 AM. Fairbanks.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Mon Mar 20 19:35:01 2006 UTC
Activity to the east.
ASA 800, 10 sec. f4
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In the north. 03/20/06 1:28AM. Fairbanks.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Mon Mar 20 19:35:01 2006 UTC
In the neighborhood looking north.
There was activity north, south, east, west, and overhead.
ASA 800, 10 sec. f4
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At home. 03/20/06 AM. 1:23AM.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Mon Mar 20 19:35:01 2006 UTC
Aurora activity picked up.
ASA 800, 15 sec. f3.5.
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Activity picks up. 03/20/06AM Fairbanks.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Mon Mar 20 19:20:01 2006 UTC
A little more activity after an hour, so I headed back home. ASA 800
f3.5 20s exp.
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Stolen Moments. 2006/03/18 AM. Fairbanks.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Sat Mar 18 20:52:01 2006 UTC
Note: 2 second exposure! I could of cranked up the ASA, opened up the
lense, and
handheld these shots! Stolen moments is the title of a jazz standard
written by Oliver Nelson that I was listening to at the time I shot
this.
.
ASA 800, 2 sec. f3.5.
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Unusual Weather Huh? 2006/03/18AM Fairbanks.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Sat Mar 18 20:37:01 2006 UTC
Stellar entertainment.
The arcs flapped like prayer flags in the celestial wind.
ASA 800, 4 sec. f3.5.
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Corona. 2006/03/18 AM. Fairbanks, AK.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Sat Mar 18 20:06:01 2006 UTC
Dressed for a Martian stroll. The wind chill factor was way down there.
This picture is looking straight-up. Sub-storm after sub-storm. My
wife and I just watched a couple substorms after an evening of dancing,
before heading out with the tripod and camera. Got a stiff neck. With
a VR or IS lense I could of handheld shots at ASA 1600 this night. It
was that good!
ASA 800, 4 sec. f3.5.
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Modern Art. 2006/03/18 AM Fairbanks, AK.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Sat Mar 18 19:51:01 2006 UTC
Cold night. -25 F with stiff breeze. Fairbanks, Alaska.
Very active display -- north, south, east, west, and straight-up. The
late moon rise helped out.
The call of a Great Horned Owl, smooth and rounded, sounded in the
nearby woods at regular intervals. A mob of Chickadees chattered while
jockeying for positions on a branch. They know it's warmer between
neighbors. The footfalls from muskoxen milling around in a neighboring
field were clear and distinct, even though they were not near. In the
distant, dogs barked in excitement at the sky. Art Pepper's Modern Art
pumped from my car's stereo.
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Diffuse aurora. 3/11/06 AM. Fairbanks, AK.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Mon Mar 13 06:30:01 2006 UTC
This is what I've referred to in the previous postings as "diffuse"
aurora. This picture makes it look like some sort of weather front.
Imagine this blanketing the sky, horizon to horizon, and pulsating
rapidly. I'm talking on the order of milliseconds. The greenish light
is more apparent then the red, but one senses both with the naked eye.
After a flashy substorm, this type of aurora is easily missed. Notice
that the exposure time for the image is double that of the others.
ASA 800, f3.5 15 sec.
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Round 2. 3/11/06 AM. Fairbanks, AK.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Mon Mar 13 06:10:01 2006 UTC
After an hour or so of the aforementioned diffuse aurora, this arc
pictured here burst from the western horizon and began a brief, but
energetic show of sinuous arcs sporting pink fringe.
ASA 800, f3.5 6 sec.
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Just Hanging There. 3/11/06. AM. Fairbanks, AK.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Mon Mar 13 06:10:01 2006 UTC
Cold, moonlit night. -30F. Looking north.
ASA 400, f3.5 8 sec.
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Native Dance. 3/11/06 AM. Fairbanks, AK.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Mon Mar 13 06:10:01 2006 UTC
Clear, chilly, beautiful, moonlit night. Nice active aurora. The
aurora's shape in this image reminded me of the Yupiq, Iniupiaq, and
Aleut dancers at the Fairbanks Native Arts Festival a week earlier.
ASA 400, 8 sec. f3.5.
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In the Pink. 3/11/06. AM. Fairbanks, AK.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Mon Mar 13 05:54:01 2006 UTC
-30 F. There were active arcs on the hour, with rapidly pulsating,
sky-blanketing, diffuse aurora during the seemingly quiescent interim.
The pink at the bottom end of the arc is from a combination of red and
blue light emitted from excited and ionized nitrogen.
ASA 800, 6sec. f3.5.
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Blast from the past. 11/14/03.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Sat Jan 10 00:55:01 2004 UTC
Tech. stuff: ASA 800, f4.8, shutter speeds 6 seconds. Air Temperature:
around minus 20 F., 10:49 PM, evening of Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. Near the
University of Alaska, Fairbanks campus.
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Digital point & shoot, midnight 10/20, Fairbanks.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Wed Oct 22 17:27:01 2003 UTC
For aurora pictures, digital point and shoot cameras should have: a fast
lens -- f2.8 or less, the option of manual settings for shutter speed (with
settings of 5 seconds or more) and manual aperture settings, manual focusing
with an infinity setting, ASA setting of 300 or more; and a self-timer. This
picture was taken with my Casio QV3500, a two year old digital point and
shoot camera, with a most excellent Canon f2.0 lens.
Camera settings: ASA 300, f2.8, 8 second exposure. Fairbanks, looking SE.
11:59:40 PM. Ambient air temperature ~= -7 C.
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More from 10/16-10/17/03 night.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Fri Oct 17 18:53:02 2003 UTC
Another night of original works of Nature. All across the sky, in all
directions, and all night long.
I caught the first performance as I hiked home from work at around 8 PM. I
was up till 3 AM.
Picture parameters: ASA 800, f3.5, 8 sec. exposure. Looking NW. 9:23 PM.
Fairbanks, Alaska.
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What you may of missed last night...
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Fri Oct 17 18:24:01 2003 UTC
All night long starting at around 8 PM. Fairbanks, Alaska. Night of Oct.
16-17, 2003.
Picture parameters: ASA 800, f4, 10 sec. exposure. Looking south. 9:23 PM.
Fairbanks, Alaska.
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10/13/03 early activity, Fairbanks...
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Tue Oct 14 23:04:01 2003 UTC
I was out early and caught this aurora activity at around 10 PM. Activity
then slowed down. It wasn't till after midnight that geomagnetic storminess
was once again on the rise. When I went out again, around 1 AM, the bright
moon had conspired with a thin veil of ice crystal laden fog to obscured the
stars. Oh well there's always tonight!
Picture parameters: ASA 800, f2.8 6 sec. exposure. Looking west. 10:13 PM.
Fairbanks, Alaska.
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10/7/03 AM Fairbanks, cont.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Wed Oct 15 18:27:03 2003 UTC
A second show -- the matinee, commenced around 1:13 AM. Just as active as
the first, but oriented a little more north. I went home around 1:30 AM -- I
have to work in the morning, but the sky certainly wasn't through for the
night.
Picture parameters: ASA 800, f2.8 6 sec. exposure. Looking east. 1:13 AM.
Fairbanks, Alaska.
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1AM Fairbanks 10/07/03 cont.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Wed Oct 8 00:34:02 2003 UTC
Another shot from the "early show" around 1:00 AM. (I was out from 12:15 AM
til 1:30 AM.) While I was watching, there were two flurries of activity
with a short 15 minute intermission to recharge the gigawatt system.
Picture parameters: ASA 800, f2.8 6 sec. exposure. Looking NE. 1:04 AM.
Fairbanks City Limits.
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October 7th AM. Fairbanks
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Tue Oct 7 23:56:04 2003 UTC
STD high latitude "red alert" yesterday was right on the money. Those
corona holes are just like clock work.
Another web forecaster got lost in Parker's spiral -- no that isn't a bebop
piece from the 50's.
Picture parameters: ASA 800, f2.8 6 sec. exposure. Looking east. 12:57 AM.
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One eye on the sky. Sept. 19, 2003.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Fri Sep 19 18:23:01 2003 UTC
Backyard picture.
Turned out that it was my best opportunity to shoot a few pictures. I
appreciated the ironic humor of the night. It must of been a sort of "glimse
of hell" sketch from a Saturday Night Live or a Mad TV script.
ASA 800, f4.0, 8 sec. exposure. Looking Southeast.
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Aurora over GI/IARC at Univ. of Alaska. 9/18/03 AM.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Fri Sep 19 01:50:01 2003 UTC
I was on the West Ridge of the Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks campus. Among
pictures snapped was the aurora over the Geophysical Institute's Elvey
Building, home of a space physics research group that is known worldwide for
their work on aurora related physics and plasmas.
Also pictured is the "GI" sister Institute, the International Arctic
Research Center or IARC, which is focuses on measurements, monitoring, and
modelling related to global climate change and the Arctic's regions climate
system. If you're not from Alaska, you'd never guess that such interesting
research was being conducted at such a high tech facility in the middle of
Alaska. High tech facilities? How about the 118th fastest computer in the
world -- a Cray X1/60 and a NASA supported rocket launching facility? Well
you get the picture.
Those are Castor and Pollux, the Gemini twins who aren't, rising over the
IARC/Elvey buildings, along with a waning half moon (although such a long
exposure renders it as a second sun or a super nova. Now why didn't Chevy
come out with one of those?)
ASA 200, 15 sec. exp., f4.0. Looking Northeast.
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The End of the Day -- Sept. 17, 2003
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Thu Sep 18 19:25:01 2003 UTC
ASA 200, 15 sec. exp., f4.0. 11:54-11:55 PM. Looking East. Fairbanks,
Alaska.
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Heaven's Lips, August 23, 2003 AM.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Wed Sep 3 00:52:01 2003 UTC
Let me get an aurora shot in edgeways. Guess what, it's not from
Canada!
ASA 400, f2.8, 4 second exposure. 12:34 AM. Corona. Fairbanks, Alaska.
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August sky.
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Fri Aug 22 23:22:01 2003 UTC
August Sky.
Just the facts: ASA 400, 6 sec. exposure, f4, WNW. 12:28 AM. Fairbanks,
Alaska. 8/18/03.
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Straight up!
Submitted by:
Jeff Pederson at Fri Aug 22 19:05:01 2003 UTC
Hey, isn't that Paula Abdul's line?
Just the facts: ASA 400, 4 sec. exposure, f2.8, straight up. 2:33 AM.
Fairbanks, Alaska. Corona. 8/21/03.
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