[Credit & Copyright: Sebastian Voltmer]
Thanks for posting this fantastic, fabulous picture!
Amid all the news about holiday killings, political mud slinging and accusations, and dire predictions about 2012, your photo is a welcome respite, a true thing of beauty!!
Truly a nice way to end my evening.
Awesome!
bttt
Highly distorted and compressed horizontally. Stretch it out about twice its width.
You would never see that display for real, although North Norway has the best and most consistent aurora displays.
Just gorgeous!
Thank you, SunkenCiv! You know how much I love looking at pictures of the Aurora. It is just so mystical and magical. (now I feel bad... I didn’t get you anything).
To SunkerCiv: Beautiful, but at the same time scary. I know this is silly, but it reminds me of a ‘wall cloud,’ which here in Texas is associated with violent thunderstorms and tornados.
To raygun: Your comment brought back memories. In graudate school, I wrote a paper on the Aurora for an astronomy class. References to the solar wind, magnetosphere etc. all jogged my old memory. I got an “A” on the paper and in the class. (”It ain’t braggin’ if you can do it.”)
The last one was all pixel-y anyway. This is much better.
WOW!
Looking at this picture gives me an idea of why it was that the Apostle John used precious metal and jewel imagery to describe the New Jerusalem in the Revelation of Jesus Christ to His Church - foundations of amethyst, emerald, etc.; streets of pure, transparent gold; gates made of a single pearl, and no need of moon or sun for the Lord Himself and the Lamb shall be our light forever and ever! Wahoo!