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Summary:
Solar wind streams hit Earth on August 12th, 20th and 30th, each
time sparking Northern Lights around the Arctic Circle. See also
July 2009.
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Photographer,
Location |
Images |
Comments |
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Kjetil Skogli,
Tromsø, Norway
Aug. 30, 2009 |
#1,
#2, more |
Who says it
needs to be cold to see the Northern Lights? +14 C and a
warm wind made it easy to stay outside last night.
Photo
details: Canon
EOS 5D mkII, EF24mm/f1.4 mkII. ISO 400, f1.6, 12sec.
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Erkki Rauhala,
Uurainen Finland
Aug. 31, 2009 |
#1 |
Photo
details: Canon
5D, 17 mm 2,8 20 sec, ISO 3200 |
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Zoltan Kenwell,
North of Edmonton Alberta, Canada about 40 miles.
Aug. 20, 2009 |
#1,
#2, #3,
#4, more |
Seeing the elevated
prediction and that the Aurora belt was approaching my latitude,
thanks Spaceweather! I headed out 40 miles to the country
and found some water. Things were pretty slow, then POW!
I imaged for about 2 hours. I was shooting a pair of Canon
5D2's one with the Canon EF 16-35mm f2.8L and the other
with the Sigma 12-24mm f4.5-5.6. I pushed the envelope and
used ISO 1600-5000 around 30-50 seconds on these images.
The
5D2 is an amazing camera! There was a substantial amount
of trace surface fog on the lake and a few wisps of clouds
that make the images kind of neat! Dreamy like. |
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Sylvain Serre,
Salluit, Nunavik, Quebec, Canada
Aug. 19, 2009 |
#1,
#2, #3,
#4, more |
Tonight, the
were a lot of Northern Lights in the beautiful clear sky
of Salluit. I went, with some friends, to take some very
nice pictures. I was very surprised by the colors of the
auroras.
Photo
details: Canon
EOS 30D, 10mm, 800iso, 3.5f, 15 sec. |
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Robert Postma,
Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Aug. 12, 2009 |
#1,
more |
I was treated
to a triple whammy the night of August 12th, 2009. The Northern
Lights came out, there were noctilucent clouds on the horizon
and a Perseid meteor streaked across the sky. A perfect
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more images:
from
Gilles Boutin of St-Jean-Port-Joli et L`Islet-sur-mer Québec
Canada |
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