Well over an hour into the new year 2013, I wish everybody a very prosperous and
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from Narvik!
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1. January 2013 | Categories: 4-Winter, Holidays, In the News right now, Long Exposure, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Seasons | Tags: 2013, Happy New Year, Narvik, Northern Norway, Norway, Ofoten | Leave a comment
I am crazy busy today – but I just popped by my blog to show my readers an example of last night activity. The Kp-index was steadily around five, which at these latitudes is high (northern lights activity normally starts at Kp 2/3. Tonight there is a geomagnetic storm coming with an estimated strength of G1 (the scale goes from G0 – no activity to G5 where all hell breaks loose and satellites gets their curcuitboards fried and powergrids here on Earth fails).
Unfortunately there were strong winds and quite a bit of rain and partly cloudy yesterday. But still the build up to the storm was quite obvious in between the clouds!
Strong Auroral Activity is seen in between the Clouds last night.
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14. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, General Information, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - Summa cum Laude, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Ankenes, Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Awe-inspiring, Awesome, beautiful, Beautiful sights, Boyfriend, Catching, Chinese, christmas, Cloud, Company, Danielle, Darkness, fjord, Flipping, Flipping through photos, Forratangen, Fraction, G0, G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, Geomagnetic, Geomagnetic Storm, Geomagnetic Storm G1, Geomagnetic Storm G2, Geomagnetic Storm G3, Geomagnetic Storm G4, Geomagnetic Storm G5, Grown man, Japanese, Jumping, Kid, Kid at Christmas, Kjeldebotn, Korean, Kp, Kp-index, Lifetime, light, Memories, Memories for a Lifetime, Meteor, Meteor shower, Narvik, nature, Nordlys, Northern Lights photographs, Northern Norway, Norway, Occasion, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, Orionids, Partly cloudy, Passing, Phenomenal photo shoot, Photos, Physics, powergrids, science, Shooting star, Shouting, Show, Silly, Techniques, Tonight, Tourist, travel, Veggen, weather, Yes | Leave a comment
Aurora borealis above the Ofoten Fjord with the mountain Veggen in the background as seen from Ankenes yesterday.
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13. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: 3-Autumn, Ankenes, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Awe-inspiring, Awesome, beautiful, Beautiful sights, Boyfriend, Catching, Chinese, christmas, Company, Danielle, Darkness, fjord, Flipping, Flipping through photos, Forratangen, Fraction, General Information, Geophysics, Grown man, Japanese, Jumping, Kid, Kid at Christmas, Kjeldebotn, Korean, Kp, Kp-index, Lifetime, light, Long Exposure, Memories, Memories for a Lifetime, Meteor, Meteor shower, Meteorology, Narvik, Nature's Delight, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern Lights photographs, Northern Norway, Norway, Occasion, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, Orionids, Passing, Phenomenal photo shoot, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Photo - Summa cum Laude, Photos, Physics, Science & Technology, Shooting star, Shouting, Show, Silly, Techniques, Tourist, travel, Travel | Tags: Aaaah, Veggen, Yes | Leave a comment
Standing there in the darkness – jumping up and down like a little kid at Christmas – and shouting -Yes! and Aaaah!, I probably look quite silly for a grown man, but every occasion like yesterday is exactly like Christmas to me! The Aurora borealis – Northern Light is so awe-inspiring that I wish all the japanese, Korean and Chinese tourist here in Norway could see it! They really are memories for a lifetime. Last night Kp-index was 3 (2 and above means chances to see northern lights at these latitudes). Today the Kp is even higher, at 5 – so I am soooo hoping for equally crisp, clear skies and even bigger lights!
I managed to get great many shots yesterday. And I had company. Danielle came down to the water with her boyfriend and I helped her getting into the fine techniques of shooting Northern Lights photographs.
And another bonus last night was the swarms of beautiful meteorites. I belive it must have been the orionides that should be passing just these days. Although my camera was pointed in the wrong directions, when I got home, I found that actually three of my photos had captured these beautiful sights. My head was obviously pointing in the wrong direction at these points, as I didn’t see them until I started flipping through the shots.
Well, here is a tiny fraction of last night’s phenomenal photo shoot. Enjoy!
Northern Lights stretching all the way form to the North of Narvik and all the way to the South-West above Vestfjorden. To the left Ankenes, and to the right Veggen and Forratangen. In the center Kjeldebotn.
Strong meteor (shooting star) between the lighthouse in Ankenes and aurora.
Northern Lights above the Narvik peninsula last night
Northern Lights photographer Danielle catching the last of the show
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13. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Christmas, General Information, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Photo - Summa cum Laude, Physics, Science & Technology, Travel | Tags: Aaaah, Ankenes, Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Awe-inspiring, Awesome, beautiful, Beautiful sights, Boyfriend, Catching, Chinese, christmas, Company, Danielle, Darkness, Flipping, Flipping through photos, Forratangen, Fraction, Grown man, Japanese, Jumping, Kid, Kid at Christmas, Kjeldebotn, Korean, Kp, Kp-index, Lifetime, light, Memories, Memories for a Lifetime, Meteor, Meteor shower, Narvik, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern Lights photographs, Northern Norway, Norway, Occasion, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, Orionids, Passing, Phenomenal photo shoot, Photos, Shooting star, Shouting, Show, Silly, Techniques, Tourist, travel, Veggen, Yes | Leave a comment
The conditions are good! Clear skies and moderate particle stream from the sun, so my camera is set, my wool clothes are all ready. Tripod? Check! Extra battery? Check! Flash light? Check! All systems nominal. Go, no-go for northern lights! WE HAVE A GO FOR AURORA BOREALIS!
In the news today we saw that 45. million readers have seen the Facebook page for Visit Northern Norway – and yet again my friend Øystein Lunde Ingvaldsen lundeimages. com made the frontpage with one of his stunning photos, the very photo I got his permission to show here to the right! It is an absolute beauty of a northern lights shot! The photo is taken in Bø in Vesterålen (Boe in Vesteraalen) – the beautiful group of islands between Lofoten and the main land.
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45 million visits to Visit Northern Norway (Norwegian)
Northern lights? -straight up, please!
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12. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Facebook, Friend's Achievements, From the archives, Geophysics, In the News right now, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Other Bloggers, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Aurora statistics, Battery, battery check, Camera, Clear conditions, Clear weather, Extra battery, facebook, Flashlight, Go, nature, No-go, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern, Northern Lights, Northern Norway, Particle flux, Particle stream, science, sun, Systems nominal, Tripod, Wool, Wool clothes | Leave a comment
Incidentally exactly one year ago I was also shooting Aurora Borealis – Northern Lights photos. I recall the conditions were somewhat better than today, but still, I am not complaining. I shot a few, but this was – if not the best – the most interesting because of the perspective. The aurora is partly obscured by a cloud.
Aurora borealis is formed some 80 – 3-400 km above Earth Surface by charged particles from the sun that excites atoms in the ionosphere. When the electrons in the excited atoms falls back again to lower states of energy, they release the energy, from the collision with the particle from the sun, in the form of a photon which is the light waves/particles that we observe as light on our retina.
Northern Lights – Aurora Borealis tonight above Ankenes
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1. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Seasons | Tags: Amazing Natural Phenomenon, Ankenes, Ankenesstrand, Aurora Borealis, beautiful, Beautiful Sky, Charged particles, Earth Surface, electrons, Energy, Ionosphere, light, light waves, Narvik, Nordland, Northern Lights, Northern Norway, Norway, Particle, particles, Photon, retina, science, sun | Leave a comment
My latest English poem. Can’t read the text? Just click the picture to enlarge!
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31. March 2012 | Categories: 2-summer, From the archives, Nature's Delight, Photo, Poem, Seasons | Tags: agleam, Beam, bridge, carved, Colours, dream, fairyland, flaming seem, gap, golden, golden stream, hard, light, Midnight, Midnight Sun, Night, Northern, Northern Norway, Northern sea, Norway, raging, real, rockface, screams, seem, Sky, soaring seagulls, softness, steady, The night, vastenss | Leave a comment
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