Aurora Afterglow
Taken by Fredrik Broms on March 2, 2014 @
Kvaløya, Northern Norway
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Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D800
Exposure Time: 5/1
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 1000
Date Taken: 2014:03:02 00:45:03
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After having spent endless nights under the aurorae as an aurora photographer now, I have no other words for tonight's sky than "simply weird". Spaceweather.com's description of "afterglow" fits well but after some early "normal" auroras, the sky turned very hazy, almost like a thick mist with a dull red colour that could just be made out with the naked eye. Some green appeared again, but minutes after was replaced by red haze again. Exposures like these reveal a rather sick/surrealistic red or 'normal' green colour (timespan between the two exposures is 6 minutes - postprocessing the same), but this was unlike any other red aurora I have witnessed before. The local magnetometer went haywire but nothing much happened except than an intensified strong hazy glow all over the sky - (no pulsating aurorae), just this reddish "aurora fog". So "a simply weird afterglow" goes into tonight's log-book (a somewhat less scientific than than usual description), but I have no other better words for it..
Photographer's website:
http://nordlysfoto.blogspot.no/
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