Auroras
Taken by Rayann Elzein on January 4, 2020 @
Inari, Finnish Lapland
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Exposure Time: 8/1
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 3200
Date Taken: 2020:01:04 23:25:55
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Finally we got our first excellent Aurora show of 2020! What a night here in the northernmost part of Finnish Lapland.
Around 5:45 PM, when the sky became dark enough during this Polar Night, I could already observe a glow of the Aurora. Soon after, the glow became a bright band in the northern sky.
But it's around 9 PM local time that things got serious. The band grew higher and brighter, until multiple parallel bands appeared.
After about an hour of the green band(s) high in the sky, everything collapsed quickly like a bad soufflé.
Unlike many shows here so far in the north, the Aurora was quite static this time, despite the constantly negative Bz, which would usually spark fast moving Auroras up here. Maybe it has something to do with the extremely low solar wind density? The value of the density was close to 0 most of the night.
Or instead of asking myself scientific questions, I should just be amazed by the wonderful show that we just witnessed.
Photographer's website:
https://rez-photography.com
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