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| Summary: It's northern autumn and that means it's also aurora season. Almost all of the auroras spotted this month have been caused by solar wind streams flowing from coronal holes. See also the August 2003 aurora gallery. Page 1 | Page 2 Unless otherwise stated, all images are copyrighted by the photographers. |
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Ragnar
Johnskås,
Norway Sept. 17 |
#1, #2, #3, more |
Photo details: 10-30 seconds with 35 mm lens at F:2.0, using an old Canon AE-1 camera. "I was really positively surprised by the Fuji Superia X-tra 800 positive film," says Ragnar. |
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Stephane
Levesque,
Luceville, Quebec, Canada Sept. 30 |
#1, #2, #3 |
Photo #3 shows the International Space Station overhead with faint auroras near the horizon below. |
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Juha
Kinnunen,
in and around the small village of Nuorgam (70 deg. N), located in
the Finnish Lapland. Sept. 19 - 26 |
#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, more |
J. Kinnunen: "Thanks to two separate coronal holes on
the Sun, aurora activity was quite good. The ground weather in Nuorgam
was also
decently
clear most of the week. So I enjoyed several very enjoyable aurora
displays in the mild, hardly below freezing temperatures.
Some of the brightest substorm 'bursts' were incredibly bright, and several
frames were overexposed even with a shutter speed as slow as 1.3 seconds!" |
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Krzysztof Kordybach,
Helsinki, Finland Sept. 24 |
#1, #2, #3, #4 |
K. Kordybach: "The show was not as spectacular as in
October last year, but still the aurora was stronger than the city
lights. Photo #2
shows aurora over a business centre, where the global
headquarters of Nokia are located." |
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Kevin
Jeske,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Sept. 23 |
#1, #2, #3, #4 |
Photo details: Fuji Superia 400 film with a 28mm lens at f2.8 with a 10 sec exposure on a Pentex ME Super camera. |
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William Biscorner, Memphis, Michigan, USA Sept. 24 |
#1 |
Photo details: Pentax K1000, 50mm lens, f/2, fuji 800 film for 20 seconds |
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Jouni
Jussila, Ylikiiminki, Finland Sept. 24 |
#1, #2, #3, more |
Photo details: 24 or 35 mm f/1.4, 4-8 s., Fuji 400F |
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Colin Orthner,
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada Sept. 24 |
#1, #2 |
Photo details: Canon 10D with 20mm lens at 1600ISO |
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Mark Simpson,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada Sept. 25 |
#1, #2, #3, more |
M. Simpson: "This was the strongest display I've seen for a while. At one point it became so bright that it started to light up the ground." |
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Andre
Clay, North Pole, Alaska, USA Sept. 24 |
#1 |
Click to view the
complete movie. |
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Marc Martineau,
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Sept. 24 |
#1 |
Photo details: Camera: Fuji S602Z digital,
Exposure: 8 sec at f:4.0,
Speed: 400 ISO sensitivity,
Lens : wide angle 35mm (35mm equivalent)
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Philippe
Moussette,
Cap-Rouge, Québec, Canada Sept. 24 |
#1, #2, more |
Photo details: Coolpix 4500, 15s exposure, 400 ASA |
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Duane
Clausen, near Menominee, Michigan, USA Sept. 21 |
#1, #2, more |
D. Clausen: "You can tell the sun was starting to creep into the sky, but the auroras were visible anyway." |
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Dr
Russell Cockman,
near Edinburgh, Scotland Sept. 20 |
#1, #2, more |
R. Cockman: "After a long spell of overcast weather, skies cleared just in time for us to catch the tail end of the auroral storms that had raged for a couple of days. Whilst we watched, we saw the Moon and Saturn rise majestically in conjunction in the NE amongst the stars of Gemini. An iridium flare appears in the first image." |
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Lionel
Bernardi, 36,000 feet above the
Atlantic Ocean, just south of Greenland Sept. 20 |
#1, #2, more |
Photo details: "Canon Eos1ds, 24mm, FD2.8, exposure 20s." |
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Tom
Eklund, Kiilopää, Vuotso and Porttipahta
in Finland Sept. 17 |
#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, more |
Photo details: 28mm f/2.0, 4-15 sec and Fuji Provia 400F |
