Posted on 05/04/2015 5:49:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Sometimes the sky lights up unexpectedly. A trip to northern Norway to photograph auroras was not going as well as hoped. It was now past midnight in Steinsvik, Troms, in northern Norway, and the date was 2014 February 8. Despite recent activity on the Sun, the skies were disappointing. Therefore, the astrophotographer began packing up to go. His brother began searching for a missing lens cap. When the sky suddenly exploded with spectacular aurora. Reacting quickly, a sequence detailing dramatic green curtains was captured, with the bright Moon near the image center, and the lens-cap seeking brother on the far right. The auroral flare lasted only a few minutes, but the memory of this event, the photographer speculates, will last much longer.
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[Credit and Copyright: Tommy Richardsen ]
That’s an exceptionally nice aurora photograph. I imagine it was accompanied by yelling at the brother to look up.
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“That’s an exceptionally nice aurora photograph. I imagine it was accompanied by yelling at the brother to look up.”
Reminds me of a camping trip a friend and I took out in the desert during the time a big comet was supposed to appear at night. We were looking on the horizon to no avail as that was where it was supposed to be according to the newspapers. Then one of us looked straight up and there it was. Almost missed it.
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