Spectacular polar lights over Iceland By Martin Rietze, March 2005 |
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The month February
showed a long-continuous unusual weather situation. Also the partial
strong solar activity of the last months let hope for a stronger
northern light
activity. On the way in a sunspot minimum this
trip would perhaps be the last chance to observe phantastic polar
lights. The sun prognoses and the polar light forecast briefly before
the departure was very low. However the polar light forecast was
confirmed, and no sunspots and a minimum activity produced in the first
days only weak lights deeply on the north horizon.
In the night of the 5th
to 6th everything should change.
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Anyway, when already all films and CF memory cards were full I realized that a light spectacle like this could no be illustrated with any camera.
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This impression which can not be described with words demoted all my past nature impressions. From full moon-bright bolides to the total sun eclipses, this nocturnal ecperience was only in comparision with the observation of a volcanic ongoing from a closer range. All shown photographs were taken up with a Canon 20D camera, with a 20mm f:1,8 wide angle and a 10,5mm f:2,8 OD fish eye. Even this full format fish eye could not catch the whole active area! The exposure times were between 8-15 seconds about 800-1600 ASP.
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In the night from the 3rd to the 4th of march
a full moon-bright bolide was seen coming down by the lyra going in the
north from the zenith. This enlighted the landscape clearly, which can
be clarly seen on the picture series “. Unfortunately the bolide turned
down some degrees on the right of the screen window.
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©photos & text by Martin Rietze ,
Webbl and translation Th. Böckel ,last modification 25.3.2005
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