Auroras, City, Tromsø

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Auroras, City, Tromsø
Taken by Ole C. Salomonsen on November 14, 2012 @ Tromsø, Norway

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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Exposure Time: 1/1
Aperture: Unavailable
ISO: 5000
Date Taken: 2012:11:14 04:28:34

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My Beloved

Tonight was a spectacular night. This for sure was the strongest auroras so far this season. The magnetograms at the University of Tromsø went bananas!! The graphs hit the floor and almost through!! Even if Tromsø, which is a city of about 70,000 is giving a lot of light pollution, auroras was clearly visible standing in the middle of the city! It was just sick!! Curtains, rays, red, blue, purple and green auroras!! Once a year the arctic cathedral in Tromsø is lit in blue to put focus on diabetes. This was the first night it was lit blue this year, and man was I lucky to get one of the strongest outbreaks I have seen just over it, and the Tromsø bridge.

This was just a mindblowing visual and astronomical experience. I came home with almost 500GB of shots this night!

This image consist of three exposures, to be able to preserve the dynamic range at the bottom. This is the way my eyes perceived this outbreak.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III + Nikon 14-24 @14mm.

Ole

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stunning display and what a fantastic picture! Cant wait to get there in January!

Posted by PeasKeeper 2012-11-14 04:31:56

Great picture, congratulations!!!

Ive made a simple app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that could help you to stay alert with these magnetic events. It is free, and it can be downloaded from
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magnetic-storms/id575956246?ls=1&mt=8

Enjoy.

Best regards.

Posted by ograo 2012-11-14 06:50:46

What a great picture, thanks for showing us. I´ve seen auroras in Karasjok in March 2011, since than, i´m infected, I will come up to the very north again hopefully this winter.

best regards from Berlin
Dagmar

Posted by Dagmara 2012-11-14 10:54:51

Ole, this is just spectacular. What a beautiful city, with an even more beautiful heavens! Thank you for sharing with us.

Posted by susie77 2012-11-14 11:09:07

Hi,
What a fabulous image. I was in Tromso at EISCAT in 1996 and what a fabulous place! I loved the Arctic Cathedral.
The best place on Earth to see the aurora.
B.

Posted by auroraB 2012-11-15 04:44:57

140 thumbs up

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