Too Little Too Late

Submitted by: Dennis Anderson at 2010-07-15 08:57:01

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.

Lights Over Arctic Man

Submitted by: Dennis Anderson at 2010-07-15 08:34:02

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.

Sub-Visual Red

Submitted by: Dennis Anderson at 2010-07-15 02:10:01

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.

Zoom on the rainbow

Submitted by: Thomas Collin at 2010-07-03 15:28:01

Taken after a big rainfall. Thomas Collin http://www.astrosurf.com/tcollin http://www2.globetrotter.net/astroccd/ftp/tcollin/imagettes/ Trois-Rivieres, Quebec

Rainbow

Submitted by: Thomas Collin at 2010-07-03 15:06:01

Taken after a big rainfall. Thomas Collin http://www.astrosurf.com/tcollin http://www2.globetrotter.net/astroccd/ftp/tcollin/imagettes/ Trois-Rivieres, Quebec