Massive Auroras
Taken by Ole Salomonsen on November 23, 2014 @
EISCAT, Tromsø, Norway
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Auroras started to appear really early (4pm UTC+1) over the skies of Tromsø, Norway. After a long day of photographing whales at sea I was kinda looking forward to relax this afternoon. No such thing. Lady aurora invited me out, and I could not resist.
After quickly getting new batteries and memory cards for my camera it was out hunting, this time for the magic emerald light.
This night I visited several locations in and around Tromsø. One stop was at the EISCAT facility where I photographed the UHF radar/antenna.
Eventhough the magnetograms never really exploded like the previous night, the entire sky was filled with majestic moving green auroras. At time there were 4-5 arcs stretching from east to west next to each other in the sky, this was really amazing to watch!
Attached are two shots from a full frame camera with 14mm wide angel, one early showing both the milky way and auroras. And one shot later when the auroras filled the entire sky. I have also attached two all sky shots which cleary show how the entire sky was full of auroras.
Ole Salomonsen
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The EISCAT Scientific Association is an international research organisation operating three incoherent scatter radar systems, at 931 MHz, 224 MHz and 500 MHz, in Northern Scandinavia. It is funded and operated by the research councils of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Japan, France, the United Kingdom and Germany (collectively, the EISCAT Associates).
EISCAT (European Incoherent Scattter) studies the interaction between the Sun and the Earth as revealed by disturbances in the magnetosphere and the ionised parts of the atmosphere (these interactions also give rise to the spectacular aurora, or Northern Lights). *
* more info here: http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/EISCAT_Ramfjordmoen_Tromso_Norway.html
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