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  • To Find the Ancient and Dreamy Dimension...

    • 22 Mar 2012
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    Antti Pietikäinen  is a passionate photographer from Muonio, Lapland. Main focus in his photography spins around auroras and nature photography. His new concepts and ways to lift up nature photography is stunning and unique. The very basic idea in his photos is to capture the northern phenomenas and landscapes with unique ideas.

    "To find the ancient and dreamy dimension of the Aurora Borealis and how they appeared to the people we know from our folklore."

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  • Aurora over Faskrudsfjordur

    • 21 Mar 2012
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    • Auroras March 21 2012 Solar Flares
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    Aurora over Faskrudsfjordur, Iceland on March 8, 2012. © Jónína Óskarsdóttir.

    "Even though the CME unleashed by active region 1429 initially hit Earth a bit softer than expected yesterday, it ended up gaining some extra “oomph” once the magnetic fields lined up right… enough to ignite some amazing displays of aurorae like the one shown above over Iceland."

    via universetoday.com

     

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  • "Forest Storm" by Ole Salomonsen

    • 13 Mar 2012
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    • Auroras March 13 2012 Northern Lights
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    "Photographer Ole Christian Salomonsen is a master at capturing the northern lights in all their glory… as this image once again shows."
    via universetoday.com

     

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  • Extreme Auroras over Lapland

    • 2 Feb 2012
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    • Auroras February 02 2012 Film Shorts Lapland
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    "A powerful geomagnetic storm creates extreme auroras in the skies above Abisko National Park in Sweden. This video was shot in three hours by Lights Over Lapland photographer Chad Blakley, and shows 8 photographers participating in Lights Over Lapland's aurora borealis photo expedition. We had a fantastic night !! Please visit lightsoverlapland.com"
    via vimeo.com

     

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  • Waterfall and Big Dipper, Moonbow and Aurora

    • 3 Dec 2011
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    Waterfall, Moonbow, and Aurora from Iceland
    Image Credit & Copyright: Stephane Vetter

    "The longer you look at this image, the more you see. Perhaps your eye is first drawn to the picturesque waterfall called Skogarfoss visible on the image right. Just as prevalent, however, in this Icelandic visual extravaganza, is the colorful arc of light on the left. This chromatic bow is not a rainbow, since the water drops did not originate in rainfall nor are they reflecting light from the Sun. Rather, the drops have drifted off from the waterfall and are now illuminated by the nearly full Moon. High above are the faint green streaks of aurora. The scene, captured one night last month, also shows a beautiful starscape far in the background, including the Big Dipper, part of the constellation of the Great Bear (Ursa Major)."

    via apod.nasa.gov

     

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  • Aurora Above Churchill, Manitoba

    • 5 Oct 2011
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    "The photo above showing a brilliant, electric green aurora was captured in Churchill, Manitoba in mid February 2010. Auroras occur when energetic particles streaming out from the Sun are guided along the Earth’s magnetic field lines toward both the north and south magnetic poles. If oxygen molecules get in their way, green light is emitted. Though Churchill is more than 1,700 mi (2,735 km) from the North Pole, it’s only approximately 1,200 mi (1,930 km) from the geomagnetic north pole. Thus, there are more opportunities to view auroras here than from locations in northern Eurasia that are actually closer to the North Pole."

    via epod.usra.edu

     

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  • Many Colored Auroras Stimulated by August 3rd Sunstorm

    • 8 Sep 2011
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    Poland Goes Purple Photograph by Kamila Mazurkiewicz

     
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      Dancing Sky Photograph by Olivier du Tré

    "Two August 3 solar flares were each accompanied by giant clouds of charged gas—or coronal mass ejections—aimed at Earth, triggering the sky show. About 48 hours after NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory had detected the first eruption, the "solar wind" slammed into Earth's magnetic field, creating a geomagnetic storm that lasted four hours."     

    via news.nationalgeographic.com

     

     

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  • A Starry Night of Iceland

    • 17 May 2011
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    "On some nights, the sky is the best show in town. On this night, the sky was not only the best show in town, but a composite image of the sky won an international competition for landscape astrophotography. The above winning image was taken two months ago over Jökulsárlón, the largest glacial lake in Iceland. The photographer combined six exposures to capture not only two green auroral rings, but their reflections off the serene lake. Visible in the distant background sky is the band of our Milky Way Galaxy, the Pleiades open clusters of stars, and the Andromeda galaxy. A powerful coronal mass ejection from the Sun caused auroras to be seen as far south as Wisconsin, USA. As the Sun progresses toward solar maximum in the next few years, many more spectacular images of aurora are expected."
    via apod.nasa.gov

     

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  • Aurora Shimmer, Meteor Flash

    • 21 Mar 2011
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    "haunted skies over the island of Kvaløya, near Tromsø Norway"
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  • Aurora Borealis by Frederic Edwin Church

    • 17 Dec 2010
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    Aurora Borealis by Frederic Edwin Church

    "The ship and sled team in this image belonged to Frederic Church's friend, polar explorer Dr. Isaac Hayes. Hayes had led an Arctic expedition in 1860, and gave his sketches from the trip to the artist as inspiration for this painting. Hayes returned from his voyage to find the country in the thick of the Civil War, and in a rousing speech vowed that "God willing, I trust yet to carry the flag of the great Republic, with not a single star erased from its glorious Union, to the extreme northern limits of the earth." Viewers understood Church's painting of the Aurora Borealis (also known as the northern lights) as a portent of disaster, a divine omen relating to the conflict."

    via americanart.si.edu

     

     

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