Aurora Borealis Photo Gallery

                       Nome, Alaska
                          (  64.8 N Latt, 166 W. )
                  (Correted geomagnetic latt: 61.5)

  With Solar Maximum upon us, I find myself squarely in a front row seat, with a fury of charged Solar Wind being funneled into Earth's outer atmosphere, by the nearby magnetic North Pole, right over my head ....
  Sometimes, as I realize I'm facing another long dark winter, I long for those warm balmy days and nights down south. But not on nights like these ....
29 September and 3 October 2000.
2 intense substorms on 2 nights each lasted about 3 minutes.
Fuji Superia 400 and NHG II Pro 800 films.
27 November 2000
Taken at the onset of the huge multi-CME storm.
** Most photos on this page are not linked.
Kodak Portra 800 and Fuji NHG II Pro 800 films
28 November 2000
Impact: Taken during the multi-CME storms.
Incredibly bright active auroras lasted until daylight.
4 second exposures on the faster 800 films.
Fuji Super HQ 200, Kodak Royal Gold 400, Fuji NHG Pro 800.
20 March 2001
The arrival of an Earth directed CME fired a surprising level of activity. Look for this date in your other favorite aurora sites.
Fuji Superia 400, NHG Pro 800, Kodak Portra 800
Some better moments
during "non events"
From late March through April, our sun launched a long almost continuous stream of CME's and flares toward Earth. Click above to explore world settings in a new light. You may not come back.
(Photos here property (©) of their respective owners).
Photos and brief descriptions

LINKS to a few of my favorite sites
Email me at: jrussell@nome.net
Reset 17 June 2001. Thanks for visiting!
Aurora Photos in strong twilight. Last of a season, and first of a new aurora season. Though it's difficult to eek out the suptle colors with this much sunlight, these photographs take on an interesting "look". I rather like it, and decided to launch a dedicated Twilight page.
August 27-28, 2001.
A not quite Earth directed X-5 class solar flare and CME generated beautiful auroras in northern latitudes.
Covering the (short) darkest times and continuing into twilight. (Left: Venus rising over a distant hillside. Jupiter upper right).
Kodak Portra 800 and Fuji Superia 800
Photo by Duane Clausen. Thanks!
23 September G1 level storm.
Another great high-lattitude storm that also sparked nice auroras throughout northern Europe.
Kodak Portra 800 and Fuji Superia 800.
26 Sptember 2001, G2 level storm
Between the cloudy / hazy skies and overall
auroral glow everywhere, it was difficult to photograph
the details. This short page covers about 7 intense minutes on a single roll of Fuji Superia 800.
28 October 2001 (Page10)
5 November 2001. (Page11)
October 2001.
Beautiful storm level auroras during full moon on the 1st.
Nice coronal hole fired auroras on the 14th.
Storm level auroras in almost fully overcast skies on the 22nd.
Kodak Portra 800, Fuji Superia 800, NHGII800, Provia films.
5 November 2001.
Severe level geomagnetic storm fired by a high energy proton flare and Earthward directed CME. Best auroras I've seen to date.
Fuji Superia, Provia, and Kodak Portra films.
  (All photos  on this site are raw. No Photoshop used except to blur out aircraft or vehicle registration #'s for privacy issues).
Photo © by Peggy Fagerstrom
HandyCam video in real time
April 2000
April 18 2002
Very nice colorful auroras in Spring's growing twilight. My last session this season, as darkness dissappears.
Fuji Superia and Provia films.
Spaceweather news: (15 July 2002) A huge explosion on our sun has just sent billions of tons of charged particles into space generally torward Earth. This Coronal Mass Ejection will be opon us in a couple days. Update: (16 July) Yet another CME on our star, but unfortunately this was a backside event. (It's headed directly AWAY from Earth).

Below are a couple links from within NASA's spaceweather.com website.
(What's a CME ?)  (Watch a small video of the 2nd July 16th explosion)

Site news: (15 July) Minor changes in progress this Summer while I await dark nights. Navigational improvements, and also getting more into standard internet site practices. (Underlined text, link colors, etc...) Some photos that got the axe earlier will be rotated into their respective pages.

Navigation: All pages and information links open in your current browser window. The "hot" image thumbnails below open in a new window.