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"Memories of a Bright Snowy NIght"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Nov 29 05:16:01 2007 UTC
Whilst searching through my film archives, I stumbled across a shot that
I had taken way back in February of 2002 from the foothills of the
Central Alaska Range. I was just starting a large-format camera project
then that I have finally completed just this last spring. OK Sun, I am
now ready! Bring it on! Boy how I yearn for bright snowy nights filled
with auroras such as this!
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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"SPIRIT SKY"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Tue Oct 30 08:23:01 2007 UTC
This is a crowning aurora, shot from near Talkeetna, Alaska on the
evening of October 16, 2003. It invokes images of spirits looking back
from a star studded sky. Never once did I feel like I was alone out
there. (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit www.auroradude.com
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"Early Dawn Over the Chugach"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Tue Oct 30 07:21:01 2007 UTC
The last colorful rays of a flickering aurora are beginning to be
replaced by the light of dawn as the snow-capped peaks of Alaska's
Chugach Range catch light from a moon still high in the south.
Flickering auroras are often seen in the wee hours of the morning after
the main substorm has abated. I have on occasion seen this phenomenon
persist for hours. It very much resembles gentle flames and just like a
camp fire it has a very soothing effect - or maybe that's because I've
been up all night again! This shot was taken about an hour southeast of
Anchorage on the morning of October 16, 2003. Copyright (c) Dennis C.
Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or
visit: www.auroradude.com
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"Comet Holmes - Yellow Diamond"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Mon Oct 29 10:13:01 2007 UTC
While I don't have the proper equipment for nice imaging of this strange
comet, I do have a couple visual tools and my imagination. I came up
with this rendering after observing the comet on October 28, 2007 using
both an 8 inch telescope at 100 power and 11x80 binoculars. First I did
a rough pencil sketch which I scanned. Then in Photoshop I reversed the
sketch and began to paint. While there were stars visible in both fields
of view, including within the coma, I did not record the stars
accurately but the finished composite drawing seems to capture several
elements of my viewing experience including the bright star-like inner
coma directly at center and an off-center fan of bright debris out from
this. Beyond that the comet seemed like a hollow frosted glass orb with
darker areas void of material and a brighter ring on the "surface" of
this. This was all a golden yellowish hue. Then beyound the inner
workings and visible easily in my 11x80 binos was a faint ring of
bluish-green on the outside. Who would have thought a comet could be
both so strange and simply beautiful at the same time? Copyright (c)
Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.com
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"INTENSE"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Sun Oct 28 09:10:01 2007 UTC
A couple of recent projects as well as a new scanner have brought me to
once again look over some older images. This intense breakup occurred on
the night of October 16, 2003 and is photographed over the Alaska Range
from Near Talkeetna, Alaska using a 6x9 medium-format camera. God how I
yearn for more of these active nights during this current solar minimum!
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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"LOW ARCS AT ANCHOR BEACH"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Oct 17 20:57:01 2007 UTC
On the early morning of October 2, 2007, the wind was howling at the
beach on Anchor Point but the aurora was not. The wind was a gale
straight out of the north gusting to 30 knots or more but the aurora
remained mosly gentle arcs and mottled patches low on the horizon. I
used a 6x9 cm. home-built medium-format camera with a 98mm lens and
Kodak E100G film to record the modest display during this 12-second
exposure from Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson
Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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"PATIENCE"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Oct 17 20:30:01 2007 UTC
If there is one word to describe what is required of auroral photography
it would be patience. For the three hours or so that I sat on the beach
at Deep Creek, Alaska, I was finally rewarded with a few rays in the
north. The August 27, 2007 display was modest and brief and I was only
able to get this one shot off before the display faded into moonlight
and pesky clouds moved in from the east. I used a home-built 6x9 cm.
medium-format camera with a 98mm lens and Kodak E100G film for this 10
second exposure at 3:00 a.m local time. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson
Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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"POT OF GOLD"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Oct 17 09:31:01 2007 UTC
With the fall colors at their height it, wasn't hard to find a pot of
gold around every bend. This rainbow was seen briefly as the sun broke
through the clouds on Turnagain Pass on Alaska's Kenai Penainsula
September 25, 2007. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax
Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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"ALTOCUMULUS STANDING LENTICULAR"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Oct 17 08:57:01 2007 UTC
This is a bold example of standing lenticular clouds or ACSL
photographed near sunset from the Homer, Alaska area in early September
2007. These clouds can form when upper-level winds encounter a mountain
range and indicate severe turbulance for powered aviation. At times they
may resemble flying saucers or stacks of pancakes. Copyright (c) Dennis
C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net
or visit: www.auroradude.com
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"AURORA OVER THE CHUGACH"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Oct 17 08:30:01 2007 UTC
On the morning of August 25, 2007 I was about three hours into my
weekly commute from Homer to Anchorage when the clouds started to break
up and a nice auroral display became visible over the Chugach Mountains
of South-Central Alaska. Luckily, I build extra time into these trips so
that I can stop to marvel at the wonders along the way. I used a 6x9cm
home-built medium-format camera with a 98mm lens and Kodak E100 G film
for this 10-second exposure.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Noctilucent Dawn
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Sep 28 21:18:01 2007 UTC
Around 4:00 a.m on August 11, 2007 a nice display of noctilucent or
"night shining" clouds was painting the northeastern horizon. I
photographed it from the Twenty Mile River about an hour southeast of
Anchorage, Alaska using a Pentax 67 with a 105mm lens and Fuji Velvia
100 film.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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From the Beach
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Sep 26 18:10:01 2007 UTC
At 151degrees and 52 minutes W Longitude, this is the place that is the
furthest west that you can drive to in the Western Hemispere. This is
the beach at Anchor Point, Alaska. Lucky for me it is only about 15
minutes from home. This was one of the first auroras of the season for
me taken on August 10, 2007 around local midnight. The sun, just a few
degrees below the horizon, was still lighting up the high thin clouds in
the north creating a sunset that now had become a sunrise. This is a
crop from an original obtained with a 6x9 medium format camera equipped
with a 98mm lens and Kodak E100G film for a 5-second exposure. Copyright
(c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Noctilucent Dreams
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Tue Sep 25 23:29:01 2007 UTC
This is a large pano of a noctilucent cloud display as seen from near
Homer, Alaska during the wee hours of August 7, 2007.
It was created from three images taken with a 6x7 medium-format camera
on Fuji Velvia 100 film. I tried to make it smaller but even this
"thumbnail" hardly does it justice as the original images have about 100
megs of raw digital equivelence.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Out of Hope
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Tue Sep 25 20:39:01 2007 UTC
I was on my way to Anchorage and had found myself about 20 miles
out of Hope, Alaska on the early morning of August 11, 2007. A display
of rare and strangely beautiful noctilucent clouds was painting the sky
in front of me as the effects of the midnight sun lingered on the
northern horizon. A very faint glow from the aurora adds its feeble
greenish light above the mysterious clouds. I used a home-built
medium-format camera with a 98mm lens and 6x9 Kodak E100G film to record
the display.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Me and My Shadow
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Mon Sep 24 21:19:01 2007 UTC
This shot was taken from Willow Lake on March 28, 2007. I was using a
home-made "Mega View" camera that consists of a 30mm fisheye lens on 4x5
large format film. The view looks roughly eastward at the volcanic peaks
of Wrangel St. Elias Park and is 180 degrees from top to bottom ad side
to side. A modest aroral display paints the distance while the moon
spills my shadow down the steep slope in front of me.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Noctilucent Clouds August 7, 2007
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Tue Aug 7 19:41:01 2007 UTC
I took this image of the strange glowing cluds at around 3:30 a.m. local
time from near Homer, Alaska using a cheap digital camera.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Redoubt Volcano with Moon and Venus
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Jul 18 23:00:01 2007 UTC
Our sister planet, Venus, shines to the left of a crescent moon as
they make their way toward a rendezvous with the northwestern horizon
and Redoubt Volcano. This "evening" scene was just past midnight on the
early morning of June 18, 2007 at Deep Creek, Alaska on the Kenai
Peninsula. During this time of year strong twilight permiates the short
"night" and there is no sharp line that defines the evening from the
morning.
I used a Pentax 67 medium format camera with a 300mm lens at f5.6
and Fuji Velvia 100F film for this 1/15 sec. exposure.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or
visit: www.auroradude.com
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Arc Over the Wrangells
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Apr 12 04:17:01 2007 UTC
A diffuse arc suddenly brightens and begins to form kinks and short rays
in the eastern sky at the beginning of a small substorm on the night of
March 27-28, 2003. The arc, rises from 14,163 foot Mount Wrangell (at
right) and over 16,237 foot Mount Sanford (at left.) Wrangell is an
active volcano having last erupted in 1930 and is the northernmost
active volcano in the Pacific Ring of Fire. Sanford is also a huge
volcano but has not erupted in modern times and is considered extinct.
Although the aurora seems to touch the mountains, this is just an
illusion of line-of-sight as the aurora is in reality about 20 times
higher. I used a 6x9cm medium format camera with a 98mm lens and Fuji
Provia 100 film for this 10-second exposure from Willow Lake, Alaska.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Rays Above the Alaska Range
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Apr 5 21:16:01 2007 UTC
During the early morning of March 27, 2007 bright rays formed along an
arc and began to move westward over the mountains as if carried on the
wind. These rays are seen here bunching up in the northwestern sky as
viewed from the Central Alaska Range. I used a 6x9cm. medium format
camera with a 98mm lens and Kodak E100G film to record the sight while a
great horned owl hooted its approval from somewhere in the night.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Big Eddy
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Apr 5 19:47:01 2007 UTC
Just after 1:00 a.m. local time on March 24, 2007, a diffuse arc up to
60 degrees alt. began to brighten and show ray structure in the east.
The arc began to twist and fold becoming an active rayed band, as seen
here from Deep Creek, Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula. . These folds would
drift westward as the tall rays moved rapidly along them. It gave the
illusion of great eddies much like the whirlpools in a deep stream
making its way over unseen boulders. I used a 6x7 medium format camera
and 38mm lens on Kodak E200 film to record the display. Copyright (c)
Dennis Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Comet SWAN
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Apr 4 23:59:01 2007 UTC
This shot was taken on the evning of October 27, 2006 from near Homer,
Alaska. The faint comet SWAN is visible sporting a few degrees of tail
at upper left. A few lights from Anchor Point are visible as streaks
during this 3 minute exposure using a 6x7 medium-format camera and 75mm
lens and Kodak E100G film mounted on a "barn door" tracker. Maybe I just
have too many cameras to keep track of but this shot patiently waited as
a latent image on the film until I finally finished the roll and had it
processed 5 months later. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax
Photography Contact at; auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Breakup at Nikolaevsk
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Apr 4 23:40:01 2007 UTC
This image was taken on the early morning of March 13, 2007 from near
the Russian village of Nikolaevsk on Alaska's Southern Kenai Peninsula.
This night was marked by several minor substorms. Repeatedly an arc
would form in the north and suddenly brighten and form tall rays which
then rapidly move westward and fade only to start the process again and
again. I used a 6x7 medium-format camera with a 38mm wide-angle lens and
Kodak E200 film to record the scene. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson
Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acslalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Do a Little Dance
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Apr 4 22:59:01 2007 UTC
On the dark and moonless early morning of March 12, 2007 green rays are
seen to drift slowly westward against a diffuse arc. In reality, I don't
know which of the auroral forms was in front of the other although I
believe that the rays were in fact behind the arc. Sometimes it is these
quiet shows that can prove to be very photogenic. I used a 6x7 medium
format camera with a 38mm lens and Kodak E200 film for this exposure.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Dances With the Moon
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Apr 4 19:36:01 2007 UTC
The magical northern lights are dancing in the moonlight as viewed from
Alaska's Western Kenai Peninsula on the early morning of March 7, 2007 I
used a 6x7 medium format camera with a 38mm lens and Fuji Provia 100F
film for this image. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax
Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit
www.auroradude.com
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Dark Night
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Apr 4 18:34:01 2007 UTC
Tall rays were begining to form in the eastern sky along an arc that had
remained quiet for the past couple hours. A hint of red can be seen in
the upper parts qualifying this aurora as color type A. This was the
beginning of a pretty nice breakup that started around 3:00 a.m. local
time on March 12, 2007as viewed from Alaska's Southern Kenai Peninsula.
I used a 6x7 medium format camera with a 75mm lens for this image on
Fuji Provia 100F film. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax
Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Dancing in the Dark
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Apr 4 18:34:01 2007 UTC
Around 4:30 a.m. local time on March 12, 2007, the aurora begins to
flicker wildly near the end of breakup. I used a 6x7 medium-format
camera with a 38mm wide-angle lens and Kodak E200 film for this image
from Alaska's Southern Kenai Peninsula. Copyright(c) Dennis C. Anderson
Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acslaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Ididadog
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Mon Apr 2 18:58:01 2007 UTC
A few hearty spectators gather along the Iditerod sled dog race at a
checkpoint that does not exist hundreds of miles from the actual trail.
I have always had in mind a photo of a dog team in action under the
northern lights but due to the longer exposures required for the lights
the dogs and musher would be hopelessly blurred. So, it is through the
magic of Photoshop that I am able to combine two images into one. The
dog team was photographed at the cerimonial start to the famous race in
downtown Anchorage during a bright sunlit day in early March of 2007.
The aurora was photographed a couple weeks later in the Central Alaska
Range. I used some "Hollywood" effects to turn the day to night and make
the whole scene a little more believable. I can almost hear those
footfalls padding the snow as they approach. Copyright (c) Dennis C.
Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or
visit: www.auroradude.com
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Blow on Chilly Wind
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Sun Apr 1 19:36:01 2007 UTC
Drifted snow is evedence of the fierceness of the wind over the last day
or so. Thankfully, it had calmed down a bit on this night but it still
was able to find chinks in my armor to remind me of its ability to
rapidly lower the body temperature. This view is looking to the
northwest from the Delta River bottom in the Central Alaska Range on the
night of March 26-27, 2007. I used a Home-built 6x7cm. medium-format
camera with a 38mm wide-angle lens and Kodak E200 film for this
exposure. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit www.auroradude.com
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Beauty Lights
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Sat Mar 31 22:54:01 2007 UTC
Mother nature sure had the beauty lights on tonight as the moon shone
from high in the south while the aurora glowed with a bright green that
was now surging across the northern sky. An owl was hooting its
approval. The wind was gently wafting through the trees and larger gusts
could be heard higher up the flanks on this otherwise silent night. This
view is looking to the northeast in the mountains of the Central Alaska
Range near 62.7 degrees north. It was March 26, 2007 and although the
calendar said "spring" it was still winter here. I used a 6x7 home-built
medium-format camera with a 75mm lens and Fuji Provia 100F to record the
moment. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact
at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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