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Spanish Rose
Submitted by:
Erwin Matys at Wed May 9 20:52:01 2012 UTC
Rosette Nebula shot 2012-02-25 with a modified EOS 350D, Zeiss Sonnar 135mm @f4, IDAS LPS-P2, 22 x 4min on an Astrotrac 320X-AG from La Palma, Spain. (c) erwin matys, karoline mrazek e-mail: erwin@matys.at web: http://www.project-nightflight.net
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The Spirit Dance
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Mar 28 21:03:01 2012 UTC
Here is another overhead crowning aurora from the intense auroral
display on the evening of March 8, 2012. The aurora was at the magnetic
zenith for less than two minutes as it swung southward over Homer,
Alaska. I captured this image using a 6x7 cm medium-format camera with a
38mm 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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Electric Angels
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Wed Mar 28 20:39:01 2012 UTC
On the night of March 8-9, 2012, we saw some of the most intense auroral
displays of recent memory. This is one of just a couple images of a
brief but intense overhead crowning observed as the aurora surged
southward over Homer, Alaska. I used a 6x7 medium format camera with a
38mm wide-angle lens anf Kodak E100G film to capture the moment. This
crowning was so bright that it didn't even notice that there was a full
moon! Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact
at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Venus, Jupiter, Moon March 25, 2012
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Mon Mar 26 22:54:01 2012 UTC
The planets Venus and Jupiter, are joined by our crescent moon and a
few stars in the westerly sky as viewed from near Homer, Alaska.
Illiamna volcano is seen at the right against the last of the evening's
twilight. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography
Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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Lunchtime Companions - Venus and Moon
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Mar 26 18:11:01 2012 UTC
Venus and the crescent Moon at lunchtime - 1:15pm. 26 March 2012 from Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania. Copyright (c) 2012 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Moon, Jupiter, and Venus - 25 March 2012
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Mar 26 17:47:01 2012 UTC
Moon near Jupiter with Venus above them. 25 March 2012 from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Copyright (c) 2012 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Fisheye View of Aurora with Russian Church
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Mar 16 21:05:01 2012 UTC
While in the village of Ninilchik, Alaska on March 10-11, 2011, I had
just received an emergency tsunami warning on the local radio station.
Japan had just suffered a devistating earthquake and the subsequent
tsunami was racing across the Pacific ocean and headed for our coast.
While I stood here at the 100-year-old Russian Orthodox Church with the
moon about to set in the west, I wondered, should I stay or should I go?
The 5-minute exposure is using a 35mm lens on 4x5 Fuju Provia 100-F film
and is facing north. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax
Photography Contact at auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit:
www.auroradude.com
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Fisheye View of aurora March 8, 2012
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Mar 16 20:41:01 2012 UTC
The aurora borealis fills the northern sky as photographed from Diamond
Ridge near Homer Alaska. I used a 35mm lens on a home-built 4x5 camera,
which creates a circular fisheye effect, to capture this moonlit scene
on Kodak E100G film in unprecedented detail. The sun has finally come
out of its deep slumber and we can only hope that scenes like this
become more and more common as we move towards the solar maximum.
Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at:
auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com
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120 degree parhelion near local noon - 10 March 2012
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Sun Mar 11 01:48:01 2012 UTC
120 degree parhelion near local noon. The arc was clearly parhelic around the zenith. I observed and
photographed the arc a bit wider, but in a few minutes it was gone. I'd never seen one so high in the
sky. From Easton, Pennsylvania around 11:30am on 10 March 2012. Camera: iPhone 3GS. Copyright (c)
2012 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Early Start March 8, 2012
Submitted by:
Dennis Anderson at Fri Mar 9 12:33:01 2012 UTC
Not long after dark, a green glow appeared on the northern horizon and I
fired up my van to have a session with the aurora. Multiple green bands
appeared and I snapped a couple shots from my driveway near Homer,
Alaska around 9:00 p.m. local time. Later, there were at least three
substorms, one amongst the nicest that I have ever seen. Copyright (c)
Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography contact at
auroradude@acsalaska or visit www.auroradude.com
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Planets and Moon - 26 February 2012
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Feb 27 02:13:01 2012 UTC
>From upper left, Jupiter, Moon, Venus, and Mercury (near horizon just above branch at lower right) from
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania around 6:25pm on 26 February 2012. Copyright (c) 2012 Beth Katz,
katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Jupiter, Venus, and Moon - 25 February 2012
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Feb 27 01:25:01 2012 UTC
Jupiter, Venus, and Moon from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania around 6:15pm on 25 February 2012.
How did it look from your house? Copyright (c) 2012 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu. I apologize for
the image problems. It may be an incompatibility with Mail on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
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Venus and Moon before sunset - 25 February 2012
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Feb 27 01:01:01 2012 UTC
Moon and Venus (at 7:30 o'clock from Moon) from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania around 5:45pm on
25 February 2012. This was before sunset but very close. I was dodging clouds to get a picture. A plane
reflecting sunlight seems to be very near the Moon. Copyright (c) 2012 Beth Katz,
katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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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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Multiple but brief arcs - 9 December 2011
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Sat Dec 10 03:32:01 2011 UTC
Top to bottom: circumzenithal arc, 46 degree halo, upper tangent arc,
faint 22 degree halo. There was also a brilliant sun dog on the right
and part of the 46 degree halo on the left. The 46 degree halo
definitely was not touching the circumzenithal arc above it, so that
rules out the supralateral arc. These clouds were very fleeting, and I
didn't have time to run into the house and grab my better camera. So
these are from my iPhone 3GS. From Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
around 3:20pm on 9 December 2011. Sun about 11.5 degree altitude.
Copyright (c) 2011 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Northern Lights over Toronto, Ontario
Submitted by:
David T Chapman at Wed Oct 26 20:51:01 2011 UTC
On October 24, 2011 the northern lights erupted across most of North
America. Over half the U.S. and all of Canada that had clear skies saw
them. I have had a goal for over 10 years now to photograph the northern
lights over top the city of Toronto, Ontario. Thankfully, this night
delivered nicely. A lot of people don't know that they can be seen this far
south. It is surprising because they can be seen as far south into Texas,
Florida and California so why not Toronto. It is rare but not impossible as
this night proved. My website is www.naturebirdsandweather.com. My twitter
is @Northof44Pics you can be a fan on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/David-T-Chapman/173134962767601
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Curtains of Red
Submitted by:
David T Chapman at Mon Oct 10 10:59:01 2011 UTC
I am looking forward to the new solar cycle. The last one created northern
lights like the ones in this photograph here. I was in the Owen Sound,
Ontario, Canada area on October 30th looking southeast over Toronto when I
took this photograph. I have only seen them that direction 3 times in my 10
years of photographing the Northern Lights. The northern lights were so
intense this night, that I was able to photograph them using 100iso film
speed on a 20 second exposure. I typically photograph northern lights on
400iso. I know www.spacew.com has really helped me monitor the northern
lights, kept me from staying up all night by being able to read their data.
Thank you! My website is www.naturebirdsandweather.com. My twitter is
@Northof44Pics you can be a fan on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/David-T-Chapman/173134962767601
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Alaskan Nights
Submitted by:
Sue Evans at Wed Sep 28 14:44:01 2011 UTC
Auroral display at Chena Hot Springs, Alaska taken 12 March 2010
1130pm AKST. Canon EOS. Outside temp: -12F. Kp Index of 2.
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Aurora from Whitstable, UK 26th Sept 2011
Submitted by:
John Kemp at Tue Sep 27 12:48:01 2011 UTC
First for 8 years here! Because of the location of the magnetic pole,
auroras are much rarer here at 51deg N than from a similar latitude in
Canada. I caught the tail end of the display.
My best pic was this, the first, at 21.29 UT looking North over the
beach huts towards the lights of the offshore wind farm and the Essex
coast. I was observing till about 1.30 UT.
The green colour was clearly visible to the naked eye, but the red, only
just. The aurora flared up - if that's the word for such a faint display
- about midnight with an overall very faint red cast to the sky colour.
The image has had minimal processing - just the RGB rhs
slider moved left, contrast tweaked +15, and a few duff pixels removed
with the healing brush in PSE-8. It is quite wrong to do any
differential processing in this kind of photography - certainly not
mucking about with colour balance - so I didn't. What is intriguing is
that the sea has a red tinge, showing that the whole - or large areas -
of the sky had a faint red tinge. KonicaMinolta Dynax (Fxxum) 5D
with a 28mm f/2.8 prime lens. Full aperture, 30 sec., 800 ISO tripod. KM
cameras have a higher quality internal IR filter than many other makes
(which lose too much of the deep red), which helps with astrophotography
- both auroras and H-alpha. I can be contacted at
john.e.g.kempATbtopenworld.kom (correct this spelling!) and will give
permission for any reasonable non-commercial use of this image. John Kemp
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Aurora, saint tite, Quebec
Submitted by:
Perez Patrick (LCA) at Mon Sep 12 15:32:01 2011 UTC
Aurora seen between 1h00 and 2h00 (Montreal time), Saturday 10/09/2011
It was not intense due to full moon but really nice to see. Nice arc, 25 to
35 degrees high.
Copyright (c) Patrick Perez
Contact patrickperez2003@gmail.compatrickperez2003@gmail.com>
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Corona on 31 August 2011
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Fri Sep 2 19:30:01 2011 UTC
I really saw the colors shown here. They were brilliant yet fleeting. It
was hard to find something to block the sun. From Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania around 2:30pm on 31 August 2011. Copyright (c) 2011 Beth
Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Rainbow Wheel Spokes over Conifer, Colorado
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Fri Sep 2 04:11:01 2011 UTC
My picture of a partial rainbow wheel made the Earth Sciences Picture of
the Day on 7 August 2011. I thought it would be good to include it here
in my gallery. I was visiting my Mom near Conifer, Colorado. I had never
caught anti-crepuscular rays in a photo but finally got them in a
rainbow. Photo taken about 7:45pm 10 July 2011. EPOD link:
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/08/rainbow-wheel-segment-over-conifer-color
ado.html Copyright (c) 2011 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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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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4-5 June 2011
Submitted by:
Dominic Cantin at Sun Jun 26 03:48:02 2011 UTC
When I saw good graphics , I went outside to see if there was activity and I
saw nothing due to light polution but I took a picture to be sure and my
photograph reveal a green arc. Then I decided to go on a dark site to
apreciate the show ... it was a smooth show with different greens and rays
sometimes ! It's nice to see that the northern lights are back 8)
C Dominic Cantin
For more images http://www.pbase.com/dominiccantin
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