Nort­hern light …

Sun
24 Mar
2019

The days are get­ting lon­ger, and time is just fly­ing! Now we have alrea­dy had this year’s spring equinox. The equa­to­ri­al pla­ne of the Earth pas­sed through the cent­re of the sun on Wed­nes­day (20 March) at 21.58 hours (UT = uni­ver­sal time = GMT). From now on, the days are lon­ger again than the nights on the nort­hern hemi­s­phe­re, and the fur­ther north you are, the more light and the less darkness.

This means that the cur­rent nort­hern light sea­son in Spits­ber­gen is now slow­ly com­ing to an end. On Satur­day (16 March) we had ano­t­her ama­zing celesti­al per­for­mance. A stun­ning auro­ra borea­lis, inten­se, vibrant, fast.

Auroa bora­lis abo­ve Ope­raf­jel­let.
The nort­hern light sea­son in Spits­ber­gen is now com­ing to an end.

This nort­hern light was defi­ni­te­ly abo­ve average! To cap­tu­re the very fast move­ment, I used shut­ter times of up (or, rather, down) to 0.3 seconds, and even that was pro­bab­ly too slow to cap­tu­re the fili­gra­ne, but very lively struc­tures (click here to read more about nort­hern lights and how to pho­to­graph them).

Aureo­le (or dome) of nort­hern light abo­ve Advent­da­len.

The last days were full, the­re was just no time to wri­te new blog ent­ries … the­re will be more soon.

By the way, my new book is in print and it can now be orde­red 🙂 it is a pho­to book with the tit­le “Nor­we­gens ark­ti­scher Nor­den (1): Spitz­ber­gen – vom Polar­licht bis zur Mit­ter­nachts­son­ne”, with Ger­man text Click here for fur­ther details!