Trollsk – Unreal
Yet another photo from the harbor tonight. The fog makes a “trollsk” atmosphere, meaning unreal or unbelievable.
Bulk Carrier ablaze - not she isn't - her deck lighst are just cover with the dim fog - Please click the picture to see the full resolution, and the zoom in further to see the smalles details
Tonight’s Panorama of Ofoten Fjord with distant cumulus clouds in the background
Tonight's Panorama of the Ofoten Fjord with cumulus clouds in the background
Try landing on the Moon!
If you’re a history-buff, love space exploration like me and love flying – you’ll have to try this game!!! Moonlander by PlanetInAction.com I have only tried it in Google Chrome and it requires Google Earth plugin. If you’ve got the latest version of Google Earth and Chrome installed on your system, you have already got the plugin.
Steering the landing-craft of Apollo 11 – the first landing-craft to put man on the Moon – (at 02:39 UTC on Monday July 21 (10:39pm EDT, Sunday July 20), 1969) – is quite easy!
Use the left ← and right → arrow keys on your keyboard to control the pitch of The Eagle. Fire your engine in bursts by pressing the space-bar button on your keyboard. You can try a landing with unlimited fuel, but that is cheating ;o)
Keep an eye on the fuel gauge top right side, and keep the speed in the green area!
First you’ll need to break the orbital insertion velocity. Then pitch the craft upright when you’re over the (red) target landing area. Keep the speed in the green zone! Nice and smooth: touchdown! When you succeed, you’ll hear the actual recording from the landing from Mission Control Houston.
I prefer a full screen to get the most details.
Touchdown! Limited fuel-landing - smooth as a baby's bottom
Northern Lights and a moonlit Night
Romantic scenery panorama
Please CLICK on the picture to see it in full resolution. Northern light (aurora borrealis) with moon shining on the mountains in the background
Watching the “Sky Fire” while fetching some Fire Wood
Great Northern Lights Show Yesterday above Narvik (please click the picture for highest resolution)
Northern Lights Above the City and the clouds to the right in the picture (please click the picture for highest resolution)
-22 degrees and a Great Show
I stood out in the cold -22° Celcius (-7.6° F) for nearly a couple of hours trying to get a picture of the meteor shower – The Quadrantids. The sky was filled with them but my pocket camera – a Canon IXUS 850IS simply doesn’t have the lens nor chip to catch these really fast specs of light as they flash across the sky in the fraction of a second. But it was a very nice spectacle though.
Meteor Shower and Solar Eclipse and Great Northern Lights Show!
Well, we are way north of the Arctic Circle, so the second biggest solar eclipse in Norway since 1954 won’t be visible here, but further south it will probably be a great show tomorrow!
Furthermore, the Earth is now passing the meteor shower, The Quadrantides, so step outside and watch for shooting stars! This site has advice for when to watch.
And finally, it has been a great night for watching the Northern Lights!
As light as it gets
We are so far north here, so this is as light as it gets this time of year. Apart from these few hours of dusky daylight, it’s pitch black the rest of the day. But the sun has eventually turned, and in a few months time the forrest will explode in a bonanza in green an birdsong and the sun will shine 24 hours a day. Welcome to the land of Contrasts – Welcome to Northern-Norway.
This is the most we get from daylight this far north - just a few hours - then pitch black darkness (apart from the stars, moon and occasional Northern Lights)
The sun – Creator of Life – more beautiful than you have ever seen her
A stunning picture of the sun taken on 30th of march 2010 - Is it beautiful or what?
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