Auroras
Taken by Rayann Elzein on April 11, 2020 @
Utsjoki, Finnish Lapland
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Exposure Time: 1/1
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1600
Date Taken: 2020:04:12 02:15:45
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Some kind of solar wind has arrived, sparking our (maybe) last auroras of the season here in Utsjoki, Finnish Lapland!
Around 11:30 PM local time the sky was just dark enough to hope for some northern lights. With the very good solar wind numbers, I was expecting the show to actually start in the south, which is favourable to us because there the sky is a lot darker than the northern horizon at this time of the year.
And I was right! There was the aurora, even almost too low above the southern horizon for us to be able to see it. But soon after it exploded in beautiful green needles, and again a purple nitrogen fringe.
I could use a very fast shutter speed (less than 1 second) thanks to the bright sky, so my pictures reveal here the very fine texture of the aurora. You can see the beams, or needles, as sharp as they were to the naked eye.
Such strong displays could still be visible for a couple of days (providing we get clear sky), but now we have to forget about the (almost) daily northern horizon aurora bands. Stay tuned to find out how long we can still extend the season here!
Photographer's website:
https://rez-photography.com
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