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Auroras & Atmospherics
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PhotographerAlp AkogluLocationElmadag - AnkaraDate10.01.2007EquipmentHP Photosmart 945 Camera 1/250 sec, f/4.3, ISO 100DescriptionThis was a bonus for Comet McNaught. The weather was too dirty and foggy in Ankara to see the comet that evening. So I went to the top of a hill about 1800 meters high near Ankara to take the photos of comet. While I was watching the sun set, this scene came into view. I have never seen such a bright sunpillar before. |
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PhotographerMitrut DanutLocationThe Bucegi Mountains-RomaniaDate26.02.2006 07h 23m 20s UTEquipmentEos 300D with 18-55 mm exp 1/250 f/5.5 100ISODescriptionthis pictures belongs to Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy - SARM, as part of a series of images from it's data base |
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PhotographerErnst Olav AuneLocationHammerfest, NorwayDate18. november 1999EquipmentCanon EF (SLR) with 28mm lens on tripod. Kodak ISO 800 film, 15 sec.DescriptionSaturn,Jupiter and aurora in the western sky. |
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PhotographerLaurent LavederLocationFranceDatefrom 1996 to todayEquipmentOlympus Camedia 5060 at 27mm / Olympus OM1 with SC 180/1800 / Canon 350 D and Sigma 18-50 EXDescriptionwhat have in common those three pictures? The Earth's shadow is the link between them! From upper left to lower right, you have three appearance of the Earth's shadow at increasing distances: - in the Earth's atmsophere, less than 10 km: the blue-grey to pink Belt of Venus (anticrepuscular arch) - high above the atmosphere, about 350 km: ISS entering in the Earth's shadow (yesterday evening) in Taurus constellation - in space vacuum, at 380 000 km from there: a total lunar eclipse (in 09/27/1996) |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationJohnson Co., Kansas, USADateMarch 11, 2006EquipmentThis is a 3 minute exposure with a 16mm fish-eye @ f/5.6 on Fuji Velvia 100F. I shone a green laser through a barlow acting as a dispersion lens to have a wider "paintbrush" with which to illuminate the light pole.DescriptionHere you see an ominous lunar halo, harbinger of the severe weather outbreak that began 10 hours later in the midwest on March 12, 2006. |
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PhotographerMila ZinkovaLocationSan Francisco,CaliforniaDate10/15/06 around 10 a.m.EquipmentPentax point and shotDescriptionThe sun was behind me and I believed these were anti-crepuscular rays. I sent the picture to Andy Young and here's what he writes about it: "These are essentially crepuscular rays, formed in the remaining fog by the light reflected from the windows of the building. The fog droplets are fairly large, so they're strongly forward-scattering. That limits the angular length of the rays, which don't extend very far from the image of the Sun formed behind each window. That makes these really *crepuscular* rather than anti-crepuscular rays; they're seen in the anti-solar direction because that's where the light source (the reflection of the Sun in a window) is." |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationLinn Co., Kansas, USADateJust after midnight, Aug. 13, 2001EquipmentThis was made with an all-sky camera: A 10 minute exposure with a 16mm fish-eye Nikkor @ f/4 on a Mamiya back loaded with Fuji NHG II 800.DescriptionThis is the Great Banded Airglow Display of Aug. 13, 2001. What this image depicts is the entire visible sky laced with bands of glowing oxygen molecules in Earth's ionosphere. The brightest of these bands were visible to the naked eye, but their color shows only in the time exposure. |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationCherry Co., Nebraska, USADateJuly 23, 2000EquipmentThis is a 15 minute exposure with a 50mm lens @ f/2.8 on Fuji NHG II 800.DescriptionThis image shows tiny comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) surrounded by green and red airglow. See S&T for July 2006, and Feb. 2007 for more info on this phenomenon. |
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PhotographerLaurent LavederLocationQuimper, Bretagne, FranceDate22/01/07 6:00 PMEquipmentCanon 30D with Sigma 18-50 EG DG at f/8. 1/125 s at 800 ASA. 7 pictures for the stitching.DescriptionFor years, I was waiting for the contrasted shadow fan known as anticrepuscular rays. It is caused by storm clouds masking the sunset light in the opposite direction. The Belt of Venus (the Earth's shdaow) is also visible near the horizon. |
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PhotographerMitrut DanutLocationBacau-RomaniaDate19.03.2006 16 h 18 m 11 s UTEquipmentCanon 300 D 18-55mm lens exp 1/250 f/9 Hoya circ-polarizorDescriptionBeautiful sunset |
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