| |
Gorgeous 31st of July NLC show
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Sun Aug 3 19:13:01 2008 UTC
Last week of July 2008 was packed full of nice to very nice NLC
displays, but the one on 31st night was a true masterpiece. One of the
best shows in past few years for me.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Sep 22. modest aurora
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Thu Oct 4 05:38:01 2007 UTC
Modest aurora of 22nd of September 2007.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Late July NLC's 2007
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Sat Jul 28 08:22:01 2007 UTC
Finally dark enough to see some of the night sky stuff.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Solar minimum au of August 2006
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Fri Dec 22 09:03:01 2006 UTC
Still one more shot from August 19/20 display. When glorious start was over,
the display got more modest appearance, but still offered some pretty serene
sights later in the night.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Solar minimum au of August 2006
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Fri Dec 22 09:03:01 2006 UTC
August 19/20 display had a great start, but i made mistakes and also lucked it
out at the same time. When film was changed and aperture was set to correct
numbers, these were still lingering at the sky
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Solar minimum au of August 2006
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Fri Dec 22 09:03:01 2006 UTC
August 19/20 display had a great start, but i made mistakes and also lucked it
out at the same time. When film was changed and aperture was set to correct
numbers, these were still lingering at the sky
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Dec. 14/15 auroras
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Fri Dec 22 08:42:01 2006 UTC
December 14/15 major geomagnetic storm did not bring all engulfing colorful
corona show, but it did some rare high lat. style formations to the high middle
latitudes and some of those moments were pretty impressive!
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Russian barbeque
Submitted by:
Anonymous at Sat Oct 21 09:49:02 2006 UTC
Summer of 2006 was extremely dry also in the other side of the Finland /
Russia border and massive forest fires were raging on the Russian side
throughout most of the summer. Here is picture from downtown Helsinki engulfed
in pure forest fire smog coming couple hundred kilometers away from the Russian
fires.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Spotting rain
Submitted by:
Anonymous at Sat Oct 21 09:49:02 2006 UTC
When the extreme dry air of summer 2006 finally went away, the rain was
somewhat heavy at times.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Spotting rain
Submitted by:
Anonymous at Sat Oct 21 09:34:01 2006 UTC
Summer of 2006 was very dry in southern Finland. Dry with historical
proportions. So when some rain and thunder finally was in sight, i of course
had to go and spot some of it.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Solar minimum Au of 2006
Submitted by:
Anonymous at Sat Oct 21 09:17:01 2006 UTC
Decent display which started in the most fabulous way in bright twilight,
but....
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
31st Aug / 1st Sep Aurora 5.
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Sat Sep 3 22:15:01 2005 UTC
Coronal hole stream with Bz values near -20 for hours created this short
but impressive and large auroral substorm. This was also my first decent
to good aurora since April 2004, which did not get clouded out in the
middle of the observation...usually just before the substorms. I can't
say i would be utterly disappointed. ;-D
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
|
| |
31st Aug / 1st Sep Aurora
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Sat Sep 3 22:15:01 2005 UTC
Coronal hole stream with Bz values near -20 for hours created this short
but impressive and large auroral substorm. This was also my first decent
to good aurora since April 2004, which did not get clouded out in the
middle of the observation...usually just before the substorms. I can't
say i would be utterly disappointed. ;-D
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
|
| |
31st Aug / 1st Sep Aurora 3.
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Sat Sep 3 22:15:01 2005 UTC
Coronal hole stream with Bz values near -20 for hours created this short
but impressive and large auroral substorm. This was also my first decent
to good aurora since April 2004, which did not get clouded out in the
middle of the observation...usually just before the substorms. I can't
say i would be utterly disappointed. ;-D
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
|
| |
31st Aug / 1st Sep Aurora 2.
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Sat Sep 3 22:15:01 2005 UTC
Coronal hole stream with Bz values near -20 for hours created this short
but impressive and large auroral substorm. This was also my first decent
to good aurora since April 2004, which did not get clouded out in the
middle of the observation...usually just before the substorms. I can't
say i would be utterly disappointed. ;-D
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
|
| |
31st Aug/1st Sep Aurora 1.
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Sat Sep 3 22:01:01 2005 UTC
Coronal hole stream with Bz values near -20 for hours created this short
but impressive and large auroral substorm. This was also my first decent
to good aurora since April 2004, which did not get clouded out in the
middle of the observation...usually just before the substorms. I can't
say i would be utterly disappointed. ;-D
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
|
| |
Coloured rain
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Sun Aug 14 14:10:01 2005 UTC
Coloured rain over Lake Vajavesi, Finland on 12th of August 2005.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Pretty red rainbow from 2004
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Wed Jul 13 22:16:01 2005 UTC
Quite red scene and rainbow from one evening in the "summer" of 2004.
Well, 2004 had no summer...That year the autumn started right after May
and lasted all the way into the January of 2005.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
|
| |
Noctilucent clouds 13. july 2005
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Wed Jul 13 22:16:01 2005 UTC
First big NLC display of 2005 for me. This display would have been one
of the best of all times, if it just had happened 10-15 days later. Now
our night skies were still bit too bright for these creatures.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
|
| |
Noctilucent clouds 13. july 2005
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Wed Jul 13 22:00:01 2005 UTC
First big NLC display of 2005 for me. This display would have been one
of the best of all times, if it just had happened 10-15 days later. Now
our night skies were still bit too bright for these creatures.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
|
| |
Subvisual aurora in 2001 or 2002
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Wed Jan 26 13:00:01 2005 UTC
On this evening there wasn't any strong aurora visible at any time, but at
one point definite faint greys glow seemed to grow from the north. I
thought that it might turned out be red, if i expose it long enough and it
did. Exposure was 30 sec, if i remember right, and the lens f/2.0 28mm with
provia 400F.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
9th nov. 2004 red pulsating arc
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Thu Nov 11 22:24:01 2004 UTC
During all these huge storms i got maybe hour or two of clear skies.
Fortunately part of my clear skies were during the huge substorm of 9th
of nov. The substorm was not the best i have seen, but i have never seen
a pulsating red arc before. That was something completely new to me. The
direction of the photo is towards the southwest or so.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
June 2004 rainbow with reflection bow
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Mon Sep 27 10:50:01 2004 UTC
Best rainbow show the year here, which had also my first ever reflection bow.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
| |
Thunder and northern lighting 3.
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Thu Sep 2 15:04:01 2004 UTC
22nd of August 2004 i got chance to witness something not too usual around here. During the evening the weather got clear and revealed couple distant thunderclouds with active lightning. After watching this distant lightning in the west for an hour or so, faint auroras suddenly appeared to the north. During couple moments the aurora got close enough to the thunder that i could, for the time in my life, witness couple of clear lightning bolts at the same time when seeing aurora. Unfortunately i had only 100ASA film and also the lightning died out as it closer to aurora, so i didn't manage to catch any bolts and lights into the same frame, but at least here are few rays and flashes in the same pics..
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
|
| |
Thunder and northern lighting 2.
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Thu Sep 2 15:04:01 2004 UTC
22nd of August 2004 i got chance to witness something not too usual around here. During the evening the weather got clear and revealed couple distant thunderclouds with active lightning. After watching this distant lightning in the west for an hour or so, faint auroras suddenly appeared to the north. During couple moments the aurora got close enough to the thunder that i could, for the time in my life, witness couple of clear lightning bolts at the same time when seeing aurora. Unfortunately i had only 100ASA film and also the lightning died out as it closer to aurora, so i didn't manage to catch any bolts and lights into the same frame, but at least here are few rays and flashes in the same pics..
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
|
| |
Thunder and northern lighting 1.
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Thu Sep 2 14:58:01 2004 UTC
22nd of August 2004 i got chance to witness something not too usual around here. During the evening the weather got clear and revealed couple distant thunderclouds with active lightning. After watching this distant lightning in the west for an hour or so, faint auroras suddenly appeared to the north. During couple moments the aurora got close enough to the thunder that i could, for the time in my life, witness couple of clear lightning bolts at the same time when seeing aurora. Unfortunately i had only 100ASA film and also the lightning died out as it closer to aurora, so i didn't manage to catch any bolts and lights into the same frame, but at least here are few rays and flashes in the same pics..
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
|
| |
First aurora of the season
Submitted by:
Tom Eklund at Tue Aug 10 08:37:01 2004 UTC
First aurora of the season. Not great, but clearly visible. Feels nice to see aurora again.
Copyright (c) Tom Eklund
|
|
