Aurora Borealis, Nome Alaska
AuroraPage6. Aurora photos taken towards the end of an aurora season (Mid April and -->), and at the beginning of a new season, (August) when the Sun is low enough under the northern horizon to give an hour or so of precious darkness. These are very accurate, wrt naked-eye impressions.
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23 April, 2001. 3:00am. ADT. Reading of moderate "unsettled" activity on Spaceweather.com I went out and awaited the darkest moments. At about 3:00am some nice formations started peeking through the twilight. This was my last session this season, and I nailed a few decent exposures from this roll.
Nikkor 35mm @f2, Kodak Portra 800, 13 - 20 seconds.
21 August, 3:00 - 3:30am ADT. Surprize. The Aug17th event from the CME arrival had come & gone, and tonight was clear and quiet. I was enjoying seeing the Milky Way just comming into view in the short hour of near darkness. Suddenly the auroras came. All my favorite aurora live update sites said "quiet", but what the heck. I photograph aurora when I see it.
(In fact, Earth had just entered a solar wind stream from a coronal hole, triggering more high lattitude activity).
Nikkor 35mm @f2, Fuji Superia 800, 15 seconds.
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Very nice G2 level storm
20 March 2001
Nice auroras but short nights
21 August 2001
