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Lunar eclipse December 10, 2011
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Sat Dec 10 23:11:01 2011 UTC
The moon was just beginning to exit the darkest part of the Earth's
shadow as viewed from near Homer, Alaska around 6:00 a.m. Local time.
Very thin clouds were beginning to move in and scattered the light of
the brightest portion. The reddish glow of light refracted through
Earth's atmosphere is still plainly visible. This was a pretty bright
eclipse with the moon glowing a bright reddish orange for about 50
minutes during totality. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Noctilucent Panorama July 28, 2011
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Jul 28 18:29:01 2011 UTC
Noctilucent clouds or NLCs were visible over Alaska's Kenai Peninsula on
this entire short summer night. At this time of the year, the geometry
of the sun is perfect for illuminating ice crystals high in the
atmosphere to create these electric-blue glowing clouds. I stitched
togeather four separate images to create this panorama of the northern
sky as seen from our home near Homer, Alaska around 3:30 a.m. The clouds
were visible well past 4:00 a.m. when the increasing twilight finally
obscured the display towards sunrise. Copyright (c) Dennis C.Anderson
Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Noctilucent clouds July 28, 2011
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Jul 28 11:10:01 2011 UTC
NLCs light up the north with a mysterious blue glow as seen from near
Homer, Alaska around 2:15 local time.
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Noctilucent Clouds July 27, 2011
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Jul 28 11:10:01 2011 UTC
NLCs light up the northern sky from near Homer, Alaska July 27, 2011
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Noctilucent clouds July 27, 2011
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Jul 28 10:48:01 2011 UTC
NLCs near Homer, Alaska July 27, 2011 Detail of bright area.
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Noctilucent clouds July 27, 2011
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Jul 28 10:11:01 2011 UTC
NLCs visible from near Homer Alaska July 27,2011 around 1:20 a.m. local
time.
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Jupiter, Moon March 6, 2011
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Mar 9 13:04:01 2011 UTC
Our crescent moon and bright planet Jupiter make a nice pairing in the
colorful western sky as viewed from near Homer, Alaska.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or
visit www.auroradude.com
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Twilight over Cook Inlet
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Jan 12 22:17:01 2011 UTC
January 11, 2011 brought yet another beautiful blue-sky sunny day ending
with a pretty sunset over the water, but it wasn't until later that the
color of the sky had grown quite remarkable. I grabbed my wife's little
digital and snapped three images from the deck of our house, near Homer,
Alaska, and stiched them togeather to form this panorama of our
southwestern skyline. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax
Photography Contact at auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Baloon to the Moon
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Dec 23 21:34:01 2010 UTC
During the lunar eclipse of December 20-21, 2010 we launched a hot air
baloon into the night. The eclipsed moon is seen at the very top of the
frame as the baloon streaks up and out of the frame on its way to... who
knows where?
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"Solstice" Lunar Eclipse
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Tue Dec 21 21:19:02 2010 UTC
Clouds came and went all day, but when it came down to business, we were
able to scare them away and had a great clear night to view the
"solstice' eclipse on the night of December 20-21, 2010. This is an
image of the totally eclipsed moon taken from near Homer, Alaska shortly
after the moon was fully in the Earth's shadow. I've seen several
eclipses but this was a real beauty. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson
Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Royal Purples II
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Dec 16 03:00:01 2010 UTC
Above a ribbon of green, tall rays reach up into direct sunlight where
they are transformed by extra boost of energy creating violet hues
during the evening twilight. This image was taken on April 16, 1999 from
near Kluane Lake in Canada's Yukon Territories. Copyright(c) Dennis C.
Anderson Night Trax Photography Visit www.auroradude.com or contact at
auroradude@acsalaska.net
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Too Little Too Late
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Jul 15 08:57:01 2010 UTC
The aurora was visible from dusk to dawn on this April 10, 2010 night.
Here, above Birch Lake, located southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, we see a
glowing band begin to brighten and move but it is ultimately lost in the
growing twilight of dawn. Perhaps next season will bring an increase in
solar activity and the auroras that come with it.
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Lights Over Arctic Man
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Jul 15 08:34:02 2010 UTC
Every year in the Central Alaska Range a small temporary town appears on
the map. Thousands of Alaskans gather for the annual Arctic Man
competition. This extreme event is a race envolving skis and snow
machines. They don't compete against each other but rather work as a
team. For part of the race a skier is pulled behind a snow machine at
speeds reaching 90 miles per hour! I call it the Crazy Man! The northern
lights were dancing low over the mountains but the race enthusiests were
oblivious to them while bathed in all that man-made light.
I used a home-built 6x7 medium format camera equipped with a 38mm
wide-angle lens and Kodak E100G film for this 30-second exposure taken
on April 10, 2010.
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Sub-Visual Red
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Thu Jul 15 02:10:01 2010 UTC
2010 was starting out like 2009 ended. Auroral activity was minimal as
the sun was stuck in the quietest period for about 100 years. I did
manage to see some activity during our times of darkness but not much.
Here we see a modest display from Alaska's Kenai Peninsula in the early
morning hours of January 20, 2010. There is some red visible abobe the
green which was not vivsible to the eye. Human vision suffers color
blindness at night but the film does not so a faint aurora might not
appear very colorful visually. I used a home-built 6x9 medium format
camera with a 98mm f1.4 lens and Kodak E100G film for this 8-second
exposure.
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Solar Spike Feb. 4, 2010
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Feb 5 19:59:01 2010 UTC
Ice crystals in the air are responsible for this solar spike that was
seen over the setting sun across Cook Inlet as viewed from near Homer,
Alaska on the evening of February 4, 2010.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Mount St. Augustine and Fata Morganna
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Feb 5 19:59:01 2010 UTC
A layer of warm air over cold air creats a type of lensing effect known
as fata morganna. In this type of mirage distant features are seen to be
streached vertically. The distant volcano island of Mount St. Augustine
normally has gentle slopes when seen in profile but here they are
distorted into impossible cliff faces as seen from near Homer, Alaska on
January 31, 2010. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax
Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Moonset over the Aleutian Range
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Feb 5 19:59:01 2010 UTC
After another bright moonlit night our moon, now just past full, heads
towards the western horizon as seen from near Homer, Alaska on the
morning of January 31, 2010.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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January Sunset Over Kamishak Bay
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Feb 5 19:37:01 2010 UTC
Even though the aurora has been somewhat elusive from Alaska's Kenai
Peninsula, the skies have been full of color. This sunset was on January
30 and is taken from near Homer, Alaska looking SW toward Distant Mount
Douglas /Four-Peaked Volcanos on the left and Mount St. Augustine
Volcano on the right. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax
Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Solstice Sun Rays
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Sat Dec 26 20:44:01 2009 UTC
The December solstice was at 8:47 a.m. Alaska time on the 21st but our
shortest day actually fell on the 22nd. This image is looking south from
near Homer, Alaska around local noon. We almost got to see the sun on
this short day but had to settle for some beautiful crepuscular rays as
it was being a little shy and never fully emerged from the clouds.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Lenticular Sunrise
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Dec 9 22:14:01 2009 UTC
Lenticular clouds are seen above the Kenai Mountains on the southern end
of the Kenai Peninsula as viewed from near Homer, Alaska on this
December 6, 2009 morning. These couds are formed by strong winds rising
up over the mountains. Dutch Harbor had reported 100 mile an hour winds
the day before with damage to roofs and other objects but we are glad to
report that the winds never materialized at our location. Copyright (c)
Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Mammatus at Sunrise
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Dec 9 21:50:01 2009 UTC
The sunrise was no less than spectacular on the morning of December 6,
2009. There were many interesting cloud formations catching the early
light of a rising sun. Here we see an example of mammatus in the
southern sky over Homer, Alaska. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night
Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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A Little Glory
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Nov 6 23:32:01 2009 UTC
While on a flight from Mazatlan, Mexico to Los Angeles this past March
2009, I looked down to see a small glory on the clouds a few thousand
feet below. A glory looks similar to a solar or lunar halo except that
it is opposite the sun and is caused by reflection and refraction of
sunlight from droplets in the clouds. It is similar to a rainbow that
forms a full circle. The size of the droplets determines the size of a
glory. Large droplets make for smaller glories. If the droplets are of
uniform size, up to four concentric rings might be seen. The shadow of
the 737 jetliner is visible at the center of this glory. Copyright (c)
Dennis C. Anderson Night traxPhotography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit www.auroradude.com
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"Aurora Dawn"
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Tue Sep 1 20:24:01 2009 UTC
Solar cycle 23 began in June of 1996 and was already well under way when
I took this image 11 years ago on August 26, 1998 from Alaska's Kenai
Peninsula. We were already having large sunspots accompanied by major
flares and it only got better and better. It would be nice for the
current cycle 24 to be in a similar part of its cycle but the slowest
solar minimum in 100 years continues as of this writing. It seems that
there is plenty of time lately to reflect on past auroras and dig
through the acrhives for these gems. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson
Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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NLCs above Redoubt Volcano
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Aug 7 18:31:01 2009 UTC
This is one of the last images before our early dawn completely erased
the night-shining clouds. It is looking NNW towards Redoubt Volcano
which is seen smoking in the distance at lower left center. This image
was taken at 4:40 a.m. ADT from near Homer, Alaska on August 7, 2009.
Copyright(c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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NLCs August 7, 2009
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Aug 7 18:08:01 2009 UTC
This image is taken at 4:07 a.m. ADT as the noctilucent clouds were
growing in strength in the northern sky and slowly moving westward and
south.
Image is taken from near Homer Alaska. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson
Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Noctilucent Cloud Display August 7, 2009
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Aug 7 11:05:01 2009 UTC
NLC display low on the northern horizon as seen from near Homer, Alaska
at 2:30 a.m. ADT.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Sun Dog Over Redoubt Volcano
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Jul 15 20:09:01 2009 UTC
A rainbow-hued sundog, or parihelion, is visible over redoubt Volcano as
viewed from near Homer, Alaska on the afternoon of July 14, 2009.
Sunlight refracting and reflecting through ice crystals high in the
atmosphere cause the effect. Sundogs often come in pairs located 22
degrees to either side of the sun while it is low in the afternoon or
morning sky. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Noctilucent Cloud Display July 15, 2009
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Jul 15 18:53:01 2009 UTC
A faint wispy display of NLCs or noctilucent clouds graces the twilight
sky above as viewed from near Homer, Alaska. The image was created from
four separate images depicting the sky from the western horizon to
overhead. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
Contact at auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit : www.auroradude.com
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Star Trails, Aurora, Volcano
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Sun Apr 26 18:27:01 2009 UTC
The aurora borealis shows as a mottled green arc while the stars trail
during this 15-minute exposure taken from the beach at Deep Creek,
Alaska. The active volcano, Redoubt, can be seen in the distance
catching the early morning light and sporting a small steam plume in
this March 21, 2009 image taken just before dawn with a 6x9
medium-format camera and Fuji 800Z film. Copyright (c) Dennis C.
Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or
visit: www.auroradude.com
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Volcano and Aurora
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Sat Apr 25 20:40:01 2009 UTC
On the early morning of March 21, 2009, Redoubt Volcano (bottom left)
was just starting to wake up from its 20-year slumber when I took this
shot of the aurora borealis putting on its own little show. The view is
looking northwest from Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. I used Fuji Z800 film
in a 6x9 cm. medium- format camera with a 98mm f1.4 lens for this
8-second exposure.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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