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The total solar eclipse has come and gone, but sky-gazers have reason to keep looking up — a meteor shower will peak this week right before a full moon rises. The bright orb may steal some of the Lyrids’ thunder, but experts have some tips on how best to view the celestial spectacle.
The Lyrid meteor shower will be most active Sunday night through the early morning hours of Monday, according to the American Meteor Society. And April’s full moon, also known as the pink moon, reaches the crest of its full phase at 7:49 p.m. ET Tuesday.
During the Lyrids’ peak, onlookers typically catch a glimpse of up to 18 meteors per hour, but this year the moon’s brightness will interfere with the sighting of faint meteors. The shower will be most visible to folks in the Northern Hemisphere, said Ashley King, a postdoctoral researcher of planetary sciences at London’s Natural History Museum. The Lyrids’ radiant, or the point the meteors appear to originate from, will not rise high enough in the Southern Hemisphere’s night sky for high rates of meteors to be seen, he explained.
How to catch sight of a Lyrid meteor
Night owls aiming to view the Lyrids will need to let their eyes adjust by going outside at least 10 to 15 minutes before trying to spot a meteor, King added. Since meteors can appear all over the sky, experts don’t recommended using a telescope or binoculars due to the devices’ small fields of view, according to NASA.
“The best time to go out (to see a meteor) is kind of the very early morning before the sun comes up,” King said. “If you can get somewhere dark and possibly get up high, so you can see lots of the sky, that’s ideal.”
The Lyrids are not known for being the fastest or the brightest meteors, but the shower could still provide a worthwhile celestial light show — and there is always a chance for surprises.
“You never know quite what you are going to see, and seeing a meteor is such a really nice way to see what’s going on and see that the solar system is active,” King said. “In a way, (by seeing a meteor) you’re looking at … some of the oldest materials that formed in the solar system.”
Look to the sky for the pink moon
The pink moon will be visible to everyone across the world, since Earth’s natural satellite will appear to be full for a couple of days.
Despite its name, this full moon will look like any other, said Paul Hayne, a planetary scientist with the University of Colorado Boulder. Any full moon may occasionally take on a reddish hue when near the horizon, due to light passing through Earth’s atmosphere.
The pink moon actually got its moniker due to its annual appearance not long after the start of spring, much like its namesake, a hot pink wildflower called Phlox subulata that blooms in early springtime, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
It’s best to view the full moon with binoculars, or even just the naked eye, as it might be too bright to view through a telescope, Hayne said.
“Our closest celestial neighbor has played a starring role in both human mythologies and the evolution of life on Earth. It’s also one of the most beautiful sights in the night sky that is visible without a telescope,” Hayne said in an email. “Looking up at a full moon is a great opportunity to be reminded of the vastness of space and our connection to the cosmos.”
More full moons this year
Of the 12 full moons in 2024, the September and October lunar events are set to be supermoons, according to EarthSky.
Definitions of a supermoon can vary, but the term generally denotes a full moon that is closer to Earth than normal and thus appears larger and brighter in the night sky. Some astronomers say the phenomenon occurs when the moon is within 90% of perigee — its closest approach to Earth in orbit.
Here are the remaining full moons of 2024:
• May 23: Flower moon
• June 21: Strawberry moon
• July 21: Buck moon
• August 19: Sturgeon moon
• September 17: Harvest moon
• October 17: Hunter’s moon
• November 15: Beaver moon
• December 15: Cold moon
Meteor showers of 2024
Sky-gazers can look forward to a multitude of meteor showers still to come this year, according to the American Meteor Society. Here are the dates when meteor events are expected to peak.
• Eta Aquariids: May 4-5
• Southern delta Aquariids: July 29-30
• Alpha Capricornids: July 30-31
• Perseids: August 11-12
• Draconids: October 7-8
• Orionids: October 20-21
• Southern Taurids: November 4-5
• Northern Taurids: November 11-12
• Leonids: November 17-18
• Geminids: December 13-14
• Ursids: December 21-22
Solar and lunar eclipses
While the most highly anticipated of 2024’s eclipse events was the total solar eclipse on April 8, an annular solar eclipse will occur on October 2 over parts of South America. In this type of eclipse, the moon is at the farthest point from Earth within its orbit as it passes between our planet and the sun, so it can’t completely block the fiery orb. Instead, an annular solar eclipse creates a “ring of fire” in the sky as the sun’s light surrounds the moon.
Meanwhile, a partial lunar eclipse will appear over Europe and much of Asia, Africa, North America and South America between September 17 and 18. During this event, Earth moves between the sun and the full moon in an almost perfect alignment, causing Earth’s shadow to obscure a portion of the lunar surface for those in the eclipse path.
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The Quadrantid meteor shower is one of a few each year with a narrow peak, in this case lasting only about 6 hours.
When to watch: The best night for the 2025 Quadrantids is January 2-3. (The predicted peak** is 19 UTC on January 3).
Nearest moon phase: A first quarter moon will come at 23:56 UTC on January 6, 2025 (CST) so the moon will be a waxing crescent and set late on January 2 and not interfere with the Quadrantid meteors.
Radiant: Rises in the north-northeast after midnight and is highest up before dawn. The radiant point for the Quadrantids is in a now-obsolete constellation, Quadrans Muralis the Mural Quadrant. Nowadays, we see the radiant near the famous Big Dipper asterism. Because the Quadrantid radiant is far to the north on the sky’s dome, this is mostly a far-northern shower, not as good for the Southern Hemisphere.
Expected meteors at peak, under ideal conditions: Under a dark sky with no moon, when the radiant is high in the sky, the Quadrantids can (briefly) produce over 100 meteors per hour.
Duration of shower: The Quadrantid meteor shower runs from mid-November through mid-January each year, according to this 2017 article in the journal Icarus. You might see a Quadrantid streak by any time during that interval. But most activity is centered on the peak.
Note: The Quadrantid shower is one of four major meteor showers each year with a sharp peak (the other three are the Lyrids, Leonids, and Ursids).
Report a fireball (very bright meteor) to the American Meteor Society: it’s fun and easy!
Quadrantids’ parent object(s)
From the late, great Don Machholz (1952-2022), who discovered 12 comets …
For many years, the parent comet for the Quadrantids remained unknown. That’s because astronomers were looking for an object whose orbit matched the orbit of the Quadrantids’ meteor stream. Other meteor showers do have parent objects whose orbits match their meteor streams.
But the Quadrantids’ parent object – or objects – are different. There are currently at least two related objects associated with Quadrantid meteors. Neither presently comes anywhere near Earth’s orbit. But both seem to be responsible for these early January meteors.
The chief object that spawns the Quadrantids is an asteroid named 2003 EH1. It’s believed to be a dormant or extinct comet. The Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) based near Flagstaff, Arizona, found asteroid 2003 EH1 on March 6, 2003. The asteroid takes 5.5 years to orbit the sun. Its closest point to the sun (perihelion) is 1.2 astronomical units (AU). One AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun.
In past centuries, 2003 EH1 must have passed much closer to the Earth’s orbit. Now, though, this asteroid stays well outside Earth’s orbit. Yet particles ejected from this asteroid do intersect Earth’s orbit, to produce the Quadrantids’ narrow peak.
And astronomers now say there is also a second, related object that also contributes to this meteor shower. The second object – Comet 96P/Machholz – produces a less intense and shallower peak. The material we see streaking across the sky left this comet centuries ago. Its perihelion distance is 0.12 AU, and it orbits the sun every 5.3 years. It was back near the Earth in late January 2023.
Another object might be involved
What’s the story on these two parent objects for the Quadrantids? The latest theory is that a large comet was captured by our sun and settled into a short-period orbit in about 2,000 BCE. This comet supplied meteors to the inner solar system and then it broke apart sometime between 100 CE and 950 CE. This breakup produced the Machholz Complex. In other words, there are multiple resultant offspring of this great comet. They are Comet 96P/Machholz, the Marsden Comet Group, the Kracht Comet Group, asteroid 2003 EH1, and eight meteor showers. The group is named the Machholz Complex after the main object, 96P/Machholz.
A comet that was seen more than 500 years ago, C/1490 Y1, might be involved, too. The orbit calculated for this comet comes from rough positions calculated for the comet’s predicted return, which should be every few years. But we have not seen this comet again. One study suggests it approached too close to the planet Jupiter. So it might have been thrown out of the solar system. That might be why we haven’t seen it since 1490. Or, the comet might have split up prior to its next return, producing the Machholz Complex.
This is not the final word about the parent objects of the Quadrantid meteor shower. Research continues among orbit calculators to better understand the transition of material from the surface of these objects to our Earth’s atmosphere every January. A new paper comes out nearly every year on the subject. That is how science works.
Regardless of their origins, the Quadrantid meteor shower is a fine way to start a new year.
The Quadrantid meteor shower radiant point
The radiant point of the Quadrantid shower makes an approximate right angle with the Big Dipper and the bright star Arcturus. If you trace the paths of the Quadrantid meteors backward, they appear to radiate from this point on the starry sky. See chart at the top of this page.
Now for our usual caveat. You don’t need to find the meteor shower radiant to see the Quadrantid meteors.
You need to be at mid-northern or far-northern latitudes, up in the wee hours of the morning, and hope the peak comes at just the right time to your part of the world.
The meteors will radiate from the northern sky but appear in all parts of the sky.
Constellation Quadrans Muralis?
Most meteor showers get their name from the constellations from which they appear to radiate. So it is with the Quadrantids. But the Quadrantids’ constellation no longer exists, except in memory. The name Quadrantid comes from the constellation Quadrans Muralis (Mural Quadrant). French astronomer Jerome Lalande created this constellation in 1795. This now-obsolete constellation was between the constellations of Boötes the Herdsman and Draco the Dragon. What happened to it? Where’d it go?
To understand the history of the Quadrantids’ name, we go back to the earliest observations of this meteor shower. In early January 1825, Antonio Brucalassi in Italy reported that:
… the atmosphere was traversed by a multitude of the luminous bodies known by the name of falling stars.
They appeared to radiate from Quadrans Muralis. In 1839, two men, Adolphe Quetelet of Brussels Observatory in Belgium and Edward C. Herrick in Connecticut, independently suggested the Quadrantids as an annual shower.
Then, in 1922, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) created a list of the 88 modern constellations. And it did not include Quadrans Muralis. Hardly anyone would remember this old constellation, if not for the Quadrantid meteor shower.
Quadrantid shower favors the Northern Hemisphere, but …
The Quadrantids favor the Northern Hemisphere because their radiant is so far north on the sky’s dome. If you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, you might be tempted to resign yourself to the months-long meteor drought that kicks off every year and ends in April with the Lyrids.
But, once in a while, we do hear from Southern Hemisphere dwellers who’ve seen a few Quadrantids!
Quadrantid meteor shower photos from the EarthSky community
Bottom line: The Quadrantid meteor shower in 2025 will peak late night on January 2 through dawn on January 3, in a moon-free sky. This shower has a narrow peak, lasting only hours.
**Peak times for meteor showers provided by Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society. Note that meteor shower predicted peaks may vary.
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Sky Stream, the puck-sized streaming box, is launching on Sky Italia.
Stream is the sister product to the Sky Glass integrated TV that runs on the Entertainment OS software. It will launch in Italy on June 3.
Andrea Duilio , CEO of Sky Italia, said: “In a world where people have more and more choice, almost half of consumers say they have difficulty deciding what to watch. Precisely for this reason Sky Glass was born which, with its cutting-edge operating system, allows you to solve this problem and save time. Today, with Sky Stream, we bring this innovative experience to any TV, giving everyone the opportunity to find the right content between the various apps, Sky and the main free-to-air channels in a simple and immediate way. Choosing what to see will be really easy for everyone.”
In the Italian market Stream provides access to all Sky content from apps including Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, DAZN, RaiPlay, Discovery+, Paramount+, Apple TV+ and Mediaset Infinity as well as the main free-to-air channels in a single interface.
Functionality includes pausing Live TV and Restart including the FTA channels. Each member of the family has a personal playlist where they can collate their favourite content.
The arrival of Sky Stream will be accompanied by a cross media campaign that will be released shortly.
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Six Nations Rugby has today confirmed it has agreed a new partnership with Sky Italia for broadcast rights in the Italian market.
The agreement in principle will see Sky Italia become an official broadcast partner of Six Nations Rugby across all three Six Nations Championships as well as the Autumn Nations Series.
Subject to final contract, the partnership will see Six Nations matches across the Guinness Six Nations, Women’s Six Nations and Men’s Under-20 Six Nations available to rugby supporters in Italy, meaning fans will be able to enjoy widespread coverage of Rugby’s Greatest Championships. The coverage will start next week on June 19 with the launch of the 2021 Under-20 Men’s Six Nations Championship.
Welcoming the news, Ben Morel, Chief Executive of Six Nations Rugby said: “Sky Italia are synonymous with excellence in sports broadcasting and we are really pleased to have agreed this partnership. We look forward to working closely together to tell the story of our great Championships to fans in Italy and continue to grow the game there.”
FIR President Marzio Innocenti added: “We’re delighted to welcome back Sky Italia to the Italian rugby family, with an unprecedented level of coverage of our national teams.
“Sky will play a pivotal role in promoting rugby to new audiences, bringing the emotion and atmosphere of Rugby’s Greatest Championships to life in the homes of current and new fans alike. Sky has always been highly focused on women’s sports, so we are particularly thrilled to work together on the Women’s Championship, ensuring the best possible stage for our Azzurre while inspiring new generations to approach and join the game.”
Marzio Perelli, Sky Executive Vice-President, commented: “We are delighted to broadcast the Six Nations Championship, the most prestigious rugby tournament for the top teams in Europe, including Italy, on our channels again.
“All fans will be able to continue experiencing the emotions of great rugby on Sky, which thus confirms the support for the Italian national team and the Italian teams involved in international competitions.
“Sky’s programming dedication to the oval ball means an increase in rugby events, indeed: in addition to the Six Nations 2022, we will give visibility to our young and women rugby players, thanks to the broadcast of the U20 Six Nations and the Women’s Six Nations, as well as the Autumn Internationals.
“This is in addition to the already rich rugby content, which includes the Heineken Champions Cup, the European Rugby Challenge Cup and the events organized by Sanzaar. ”
No further comment will be made at this point from any of the parties until such time as the contract terms have been concluded.
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Sky Italia has ordered “Romulus,” a 10-part series about the origins of Rome from “Gomorrah" producer Cattleya.
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Sky is building its slate of originals in Italy with “Romulus,” a 10-part series about the origin of Rome from Cattleya, the Italian producer that makes “Gomorrah.” Non-English-language drama is in vogue, but “Romulus” takes that a step further by having the characters speak in archaic Latin.
Matteo Rovere, known for his movie work, is attached to direct his first TV series. His shingle, Groenlandia, will co-produce. “‘Romulus’ is a story about feelings, war, brotherhood, courage and fear,” he said. “It is a great, epic fresco, a highly realistic reconstruction of the events that led to the foundation of Rome. But above all it is an investigation into the origins and the profound meaning of power in the West: a journey into an archaic and frightening world, where everything is sacred and people feel the mysterious and hostile presence of the gods everywhere.”
Rovere is familiar with the subject matter, having helmed the film “Romulus & Remus: The First King,” which scored international deals before having a market screening at Cannes. Michele Alhaique and Enrico Maria Artale will also direct installments of the 10-part TV series.
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The cast includes Andrea Arcangeli (“Trust”), Marianna Fontana (“Indivisible”), and Francesco Di Napoli (“Piranhas”). The story will be told through three main characters, two men and a woman, who decide to shape their own destinies instead of passively suffering their fate.
Cattleya is owed by ITV, and international sales are being handled by ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Filming starts in Rome in early June and will continue for 28 weeks in the Italian capital and its surroundings.
“’Romulus’ is an epic series in the true sense of the word, an international project featuring some of the youngest and outstanding Italian talents,” said Nicola Maccanico, EVP for programming at Sky Italia. “A project that has at its heart what is perhaps the most recognizable brand of our country, Rome, which is once again set to attract worldwide attention with a great story to tell – that of the founding of the Eternal City and its myth.”
Riccardo Tozzi, founding partner of Cattleya, added the team want to tell the story of “the origin of Rome’s power, and the interrelationship among the main events that made it possible.”
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Had you told me 12 years ago that my friend Hillary Gerardi ’09 would become one of the best mountain runners in the world, I doubt I would have believed you. For one thing, she is short, not much over five feet. For another, when I met her, she was wearing a red sequin dress and occupied one of the leadership roles on our college frisbee team best described as “party captains.” Once, she learned that a classmate liked to go on two-hour runs, and she found his habit ludicrous. She despised running. Now and then, she did it reluctantly to get exercise, but she rarely went more than two miles.
I don’t remember when I began to think of Hillary as a runner. I suspect it was sometime in 2012, when we had been out of college a few years. Hillary moved to Grenoble, France, with her boyfriend, Brad Carlson ’10, who had been hired as an English teaching assistant in a French public school. She worked as a nanny and a tutor and spent many days backcountry skiing in the mountains cradling the city. That spring, a friend invited her to a 30-kilometer—18-mile—race in the Massif de la Chartreuse, north of Grenoble. In France, and especially in the mountains, trail races are numerous and popular. Hillary accepted, and to her surprise, she won the race. The prize was a 12-pound leg of prosciutto. I remember the photograph she sent me afterward: Hillary standing on a podium, grinning, her petite torso obscured by the hunk of meat.
She intended to stay in France six months, and then months turned into years. Brad, who finished his teaching assistantship, was accepted into a master’s program at the University of Grenoble, in the Laboratory of Alpine Ecology. Hillary was hired to teach English at the American School of Grenoble. Each May, she ran “the ham race,” as she called it, and in 2015, she registered for her longest race yet, the Grand Raid des Pyrénées, 120 kilometers through a range on the southwest border of France. That summer prior to the race, Hillary and Brad visited my boyfriend, Terray Sylvester ’05, and me in California, and the four of us went to Yosemite National Park. One evening, after a full day of rock climbing, Hillary embarked on a 16-mile training run. Brad bowed out and drank a beer by a lake, while Terray tried to keep up with Hillary, though his legs are twice the length of hers. I chased behind them for roughly five miles and then retreated and took a nap on a rock.
Hillary won the Grand Raid des Pyrénées that September. Suddenly, her athletic career seemed meteoric. Through the glossy portal of Instagram, I watched her dominate race after race in a sequence called the Skyrunner World Series. “Skyrunning” was pioneered in the 1990s by an Italian climber, Marino Giacometti. The courses span long distances at high altitudes and require scrambling on precipitous ridges and treading off-piste. The secret to the sport, Hillary discovered, was knowing when not to run. With her experience climbing and skiing, she excelled on technical terrain. She could scramble without fear up rocky columns and glissade down snowy slopes. The Skyrunning Federation took note of her strong performances and began supporting her races, and when she won those, she acquired sponsors. One day, an image appeared on my Instagram feed of Hillary sharing a podium with Killian Jornet, the six-time champion of the Skyrunner series and by most measures the best endurance athlete in the world. In 2018, Black Diamond invited Hillary to join its team of mountain athletes. On the roster were world-class climbers Babsi Zangerl and Alex Honnold.
I began to think of Hillary as my most impressive friend. Really, it was more a feeling than a thought. Each time I saw a new photograph of her winning another race, I felt an inexplicable upwelling of emotion. I bragged about her to acquaintances and relatives. I told the story of the “ham race.” In my stories, I turned Hillary into a legend, and this legend grew to fill the distance between us, until I realized, one day, how long it had been since I had seen her and how little I actually knew about her life. This past September, we spoke by phone. Hillary had finished a string of races around Europe. Her last race of the season was in Limone sul Garda, Italy, in mid-October, and then she would fly to the Black Diamond headquarters in Salt Lake City to meet with her team. After that, she would return to France to emcee a mountain film festival in Grenoble. It was terrible timing to visit her, but we were in our 30s, the thick of our careers; what timing would be better?
I planned to stay five nights with Hillary and Brad in Servoz, a pastoral mountain village near Chamonix where they now live, and then drive with Hillary through the Alps, past Milan, to Limone sul Garda, where I would see her compete in her final race of the season. But the night before I arrived in Servoz, Hillary twisted an ankle while running intervals on the trails above the village. “Not sure what future holds in terms of race next weekend,” she texted. She was feeling “gutted,” she said. “Very much looking forward to good cheer to lift spirits!”
When I found her the next morning, Hillary was limping miserably, her ankle swollen to the girth of her calf, but her mood had improved. While petite, she commands an energy field many orbits beyond her body. She has luminous skin, and thick eyelashes feathering her baby-animal eyes, and a deep, smoky voice incongruous with her appearance. She is intensely charismatic, connective.
Within minutes of our arrival in Servoz, she led me on a treasure hunt through her neighborhood to locate a key secreted inside a friend’s shed, which opened the friend’s chalet, where we would find another key to a cellar in which the friend had buried a set of crutches. Meanwhile, Hillary was on the phone, chattering in fluent French as she translated the friend’s clues for me into English. When at last we located the crutches, she gasped, pleased. These were not ordinary crutches: They had crampons, a set of four teeth each, which could be extended to grip on ice and snow.
Hillary and Brad live in a small bottom-floor apartment: white walls and terra-cotta tile; a kitchen cluttered with oils, spices, and bottles of wine; a couch strewn with pillows; shelves spilling forth novels, cookbooks, guidebooks, and trophies. Photographs of mountains decorate the walls, as well as a collection of maps, the topography magnified with a glance out the living room window, which serves up a view of the classic ascent of the Grand Couloir on Mont Blanc.
They moved to Servoz from Grenoble three years ago when Brad finished a PhD in alpine ecology, and Hillary a master’s in multilingual communication. Both were hired by the Research Center for Alpine Ecosystems, or CREA Mont-Blanc, a nonprofit in Chamonix dedicated to scientific study and education. Hillary serves as the development director; Brad, a researcher. He collects data and builds models to understand how vegetation in the Alps is shifting in the context of climate change. For both, CREA is part-time work and only half the reason they moved to Servoz. Their proximity to Chamonix, the birthplace of alpinism, has served Hillary’s athletic career as well as Brad’s. In 2016, Brad was accepted into the Ecole Nationale de Ski et d’Alpinisme, or the ENSA, the oldest and most prestigious mountain guide training program in the world. This past summer, he became the third American to graduate from the program.
It was Saturday, and Hillary had made us lunch—sesame noodles, salad, a wedge of cheese. Afterward, we assembled overnight provisions and drove west to the foot of the Pointe Percée, a limestone bulb rising from a grassy cirque. In the cirque was a hut where we would stay the night and, some 300 meters above the hut, a barren ridge on which Hillary set her sights as soon as we claimed our bunks. She took off on the crutches, Brad trailing a bit skeptically behind. His bearing is distinct from hers—contained, words carefully measured. “Are you sure this is a good idea?” he said at one point, looking genuinely concerned for her ankle, but she insisted it was, and within the hour we had crested the ridge, from which we could see the Mont Blanc Massif glittering in a fresh veneer of snow.
In August 1786, Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard made the first ascent of Mont Blanc after a Genevan geologist, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, failed several times to climb the mountain himself. Saussure had offered a cash reward to any man who could find a route to the summit and guide him there; Balmat, a crystal hunter, and Paccard, a doctor, were thus considered the founders of mountaineering. By 1880, British, Swiss, Italian, and French climbers had scaled all the major peaks in the Alps. Chamonix, tucked into a valley beneath the Massif, became a mecca for alpinists and legends in the sport like Walter Bonatti, Lionel Terray, Reinhold Messner, and Ueli Steck.
It was this legacy and access that drew Brad to France. He finished high school a semester early and came to live with a host family in Annecy. There, he met a friend who took him into the mountains on weekends and told him about the guide school. “He said, ‘If you play your cards right, in 10 years, you could be a guide,’” Brad recalled. When he moved to France in 2011, Brad prepared to apply to the program.
The preparation alone was rigorous. Before even qualifying for exams and courses, the ENSA required applicants to complete 40 routes—15 ski tours, including a four-day hut trip on glaciated terrain; 10 classic alpine ridges; five ascents of snowy couloirs (steep mountainside gorges) and ice gullies; and a series of multipitch rock climbs, each graded a minimum of 5.10, at an altitude of 2,500 meters or more. Hillary accompanied Brad for most of these objectives. They climbed Le Pouce, 13 pitches up the crystalline Aiguilles Rouges, and Vecchi Lupi on the south face of the Corno Stella. They climbed the South Pillar of Barre Noire and the North Pillar of Pointe d’Amont, and traversed a toothy mass called the Meije—all in Écrins, south of Grenoble. Brad had more skill and experience as a climber than Hillary, so he led, but she moved confidently, and together they became more efficient, completing routes they set out to do in less time than the guidebooks said they needed. One year, they climbed Küffner Ridge on the shoulder of Mont Blanc. It took them from early morning until midday, and when at last they had gained the ridge, Hillary spotted the summit in the distance and suggested they climb that too. Brad agreed reluctantly. “I was destroyed,” he recalled. “That’s where Hillary’s exceptional physical endurance became apparent. Hillary was still totally fresh.”
Not all their adventures together were so successful. In the winter of 2012, they skied with friends in the southern Alps, near the city of Briançon, where it snowed heavily for days. When at last the storm passed, they ventured out to an untracked slope. Their friends descended first, the snowpack appearing stable, but when Hillary dropped in, a wind slab broke and yanked her downslope. A glacial erratic interrupted her descent, the avalanche pressing her against the boulder. Hillary was buried face-down, the snow hardened “like cement,” she would recall. Brad had not lost sight of her, and within minutes he dug her out.
Later that season, they met friends, again, in Chamonix, where they took a gondola to the Aiguille du Midi, a spire on the north flank of Mont Blanc, from which they descended a snowfield on skis and then boot-packed to the top of a pass. Brad rappelled partway down a couloir on the other side and stamped out a snow platform, where they could observe each other as they skied one-by-one to the bottom. From the platform, Hillary made two perfect turns and ejected from her bindings.
“It was horrifying,” Brad said. “She picked up speed and was riding up the side of the couloir and back down, then bounding 50 feet at a time.”
Hillary does not remember much of her fall: “I remember seeing gray, white, gray, white, and I remember thinking, should I put out my arms and legs to stop, or should I tuck into a ball? But there was a centrifugal force, and I didn’t have much control. I was getting air. I slotted into a crevasse head-up.”
Moments passed before Hillary realized she could move. Blood had soaked the front of her jacket. The crevasse was six feet overhead, and it occurred to her that Brad likely thought she was dead. She made a snowball and tossed it in the air.
Her only injuries were a gash in her lip—the source of the blood—and bruises all over her body. Still, Brad told me, “It was a loss-of-innocence moment. Before that, we were in the mindset of always pushing harder, finding more challenging objectives, and it worked every time. But we couldn’t just up the ante and expect it to go well every time. The consequences of that incident could have been so terrible and unforgiving.”
Hillary skied again that spring but would not return to slopes so steep. Mostly, the fall had not been her fault—the bindings from which she ejected were new to her, and she hadn’t realized they possessed a locking function for steeper terrain—but she had lost some trust in her own judgment.
“I was like, ‘I need to rethink my approach to being in the mountains and not be a cowboy,’” she told me. She believed she had conflated the ease with which she could access the Alps—via an extensive network of gondolas and trains—with a sense of safety. “When you’re in the backcountry, but you’re five minutes from the lift, you’re like, What could go wrong?” She told herself, “You need to respect the mountains more.”
Hillary registered to run a relay with Brad that spring, and it was in the midst of her training that a friend invited her to the ham race. “I needed some objectives in which I could push myself and not be scared—push myself in a way other than taking a big risk,” she said. Running appealed to her more than it had ever before. She found it satiated her desire to be in the mountains while endowing her with more autonomy. She realized how dependent she had been on Brad for both his guidance in the mountains and his command of French. She had hardly spoken the language when she came to the country. Now, she spoke French well enough to make her own friends, to reinhabit her personality. “Our relationship became a lot healthier,” she said. She still loved climbing with Brad, but when she became a runner, “I wasn’t in France just for Brad anymore. There were things I wanted to do independent of him.”
In April 2015, Hillary posted a photograph of Brad on a snowy ridge, holding out a ring. The caption read, “Oui!!”
Hillary had assumed she would always live in Vermont, where she and Brad are from. She was raised near St. Johnsbury, in the Northeast Kingdom, in a house her parents built. Len Gerardi was a fisheries biologist; Lauren, Hillary’s mother, an accountant. Hillary was a “precocious” child, Lauren says, whose magnetism was evident early on. Whenever Lauren dropped Hillary off at daycare, children swarmed her. In elementary school, she joined a gymnastics team, which Lauren says “infused her with an awareness of the demands she could put on her body.” In high school, Hillary played field hockey and lacrosse and became captain of both teams.
She has an older brother, Julian, who officiated her wedding and noted during the ceremony that while Brad “wants everyone to have a good time,” Hillary “wants to win.”
She is refreshingly unapologetic about her competitiveness. “I feel like there’s this belief that it’s somehow more noble to compete for yourself, to push yourself only for yourself,” she told me. “I think it’s bullshit. You don’t do a race if you don’t want to be competitive with other people. You could just go do challenges on your own. I think what I like about competition is that it allows me to push myself harder. I’m fascinated by where that line is, between what I can and can’t do, and I can push that line more when I’m competing.”
It might be more accurate to say that Hillary also wants everyone to have a good time, and she wants to win. She has become known on the skyrunning circuit for smiling through even the most grueling moments. When I asked Ina Høiland, a coordinator of the Tromsø Skyrace in Norway, what made Hillary such a good runner, she replied without pause, “She’s always so happy. If you see her, she gives you a hug. She has this energy about her that no one else has.” If runners pass Hillary in a race, she instinctively cheers them on. Once, during the French National Mountain Running Championships, when a woman pulled ahead, and Hillary yelled, “Allez, allez!” a spectator chided her, “Save your breath.” “I do think a lot of people have a harder time allowing those two things”—competition and fun—“to coexist,” Hillary told me.
Still, she found some races more motivating than others. In 2016, she raced for the first time in Limone sul Garda, Italy. Popular with spectators, the event begins with a sprint through cobbled passageways and then ascends thousands of meters amid limestone crags. Hillary placed eighth among women, and it was after this race that she registered for the 2017 Skyrunner World Series, with the goal of achieving a ranking. By the end of that season, she ranked fourth.
In January 2018, Hillary began working with a coach, Antonio Gallego. He designed for her a training plan that focused three weeks at a time on themes like aerobic endurance, vertical gain, and power. Together, they set goals for her season. The Skyrunner series had a subcategory called SkyExtra, which involved longer and more technical courses. The more scrambling, the better, in Hillary’s mind, and so she set her sights on three races—the Tromsø Skyrace in Norway, the Trofeo Kima in Italy, and the Glencoe Skyline in Scotland.
Her first win of the season came at the Monte Rosa Skymarathon in Switzerland, which she ran with a British racer named Holly Page. Then, in late June, she won another team endeavor, with Middlebury alumna Katie Schide ’14, on the Pierra Menta Eté, a three-day stage race. (Schide has lately dominated ultramarathons across Europe.)
In early August, Hillary arrived in Tromsø. The landscape—steep, rocky, veiled in mist—reminded her of the White Mountains in New Hampshire where she had spent college summers as a crew member in the Appalachian Mountain Huts. The course, designed by Killian Jornet and his wife, Emelie Forsberg, spans 57 kilometers and gains, altogether, 4,700 meters. Hillary suspected her competition was Ragna Debats, a Dutch runner leading the series, who was weaker on technical terrain but, on sections that required real running, would be hard to beat. Not long after the race began, Debats pulled ahead. The course rose into clouds, the trail interrupted by granite blocks on which Debats began to slip, and as they descended off-trail, Hillary passed Debats, who caught her again three kilometers later.
Hillary checked her watch and measured Debats’s pace, and the next time she caught her competitor, she stayed ahead. The trail flattened in a forest, and here Hillary used a tactic her coach had taught her: Where Debats could not see her, she ran as fast as she could, and when she emerged from the forest, she slowed to an easier pace. The point, Hillary understood, was to “trick Debats into thinking she couldn’t catch me.” The rest of the course was “quite runnable,” she would recall, “and I just ran scared.” Hillary had lost sight of Debats but suspected she was not far behind. Once, Hillary thought she was alone in the woods and was startled to hear a person call out, “You’re doing great!” She looked up and saw it was Jornet, filming her. “All I could think was, ‘I can’t get caught while he’s watching me,’” she said.
She had never run so hard as in those final kilometers to the finish. The trail gave way to a road over a bridge, where Hillary spotted her father, jumping excitedly, and then entered a wharf. This finish would seem to her the perfect metaphor for how big and small our lives can feel at the same time.
“You’ve been running for eight hours as hard as you can, and people are in restaurants looking at you, not knowing what you’re doing, not cheering.” When she crossed the finish line, breaking the women’s course record, her mother, who had never seen her race before, was there waiting, leaping, yelling.
Later that August, Hillary won the Trofeo Kima, and in September at the Glencoe Skyline, she sprinted to another winning finish, beating the renowned British ultrarunner Jasmin Paris by four seconds. At both races, she shared the podium with Jornet.
Originally, she had planned to end her season there. She had done better than she ever imagined, winning the SkyExtra category. But when she learned she was second behind Debats in the overall ranking, she reconsidered.
“All these people told me, ‘If you do Limone, and you beat Ragna, you could win the series.’” That October was sweltering in Limone; Hillary dropped out midrace. “I was so sad,” she told me. “I called my coach crying, and he was like, ‘Wait a minute. Every race you said you wanted to do at the beginning of the season, you won.’ I thought, This season has been such a success, but other people put these expectations on me, and it ended up feeling like a disappointment. It’s interesting how the expectations of other people impact your perception of self.”
On Tuesday morning, four days until the race in Limone, Hillary’s brother Julian texted, “How’s your cankle?” It was not looking good, one more disappointment in a string of them this season. First, Hillary had twisted her left ankle; then, she developed bursitis in a heel. At a race in Italy, cramps spread through her body. Then: hip bursitis. The day she sprained her right ankle, she had been focused on her hip.
In spite of these injuries, she was ranked sixth overall in the Skyrunner series, but if she did not race in Limone, she could lose her ranking. All this made Hillary more subdued than usual. She had not called her coach since Friday, because she knew that when he answered the phone, she would cry.
That night, we lightened the mood by watching YouTube clips of a 1988 Glen Plake movie, The Blizzard of AAHHH’s. Plake, an extreme skier from Lake Tahoe, narrated the film in a voice caught between surfer and John Wayne. In one frame, he sported a pink Mohawk and flame-print pants as he sipped coffee on a street in Chamonix; in another, he bombed down steep couloirs and hucked himself over crevasses.
There is a certain pressure that comes with living in the Chamonix valley, knowing, as Hillary put it to me, “that at any moment of any day, someone is getting after it.” Some say life here is usant—it uses you up. Perhaps nothing so well captures the culture as a passage from Jon Krakauer’s Eiger Dreams, in which he tells a local about a spire he climbed, and the local remarks how difficult it must have been to launch a paraglider from the summit. Krakauer corrects him; he had simply climbed “with a partner and a rope,” not flown off of it. “You did not solo and you did not fly?” the local asks. “Did you not find the experience a little—how you say in English—banal?”
This quality of the culture is unlikely to fade—thrill seekers will always find new methods to push their physical and psychological boundaries—but in other ways the valley is changing. On spring days, the streets of Chamonix are now as thronged with runners in spandex as with alpinists draped in coils of rope. Climate change may have something to do with this, as adventurers adjust their objectives to warmer environments. It’s a shift Hillary and Brad think about daily in their work at CREA and as athletes. “What will define the coming years of alpinism here is adaptation, reinventing the sport around these drastic changes to the landscape,” Brad told me. “Finding new routes. Finding new windows of opportunity to do those routes.” According to climate models, glaciers in the Alps will be gone by the end of the century. “How do we motivate ourselves and clients to practice alpinism in a nonglaciated environment?”
The next morning, I accompanied Hillary to an appointment in Chamonix with her physiotherapist, Neil Maclean-Martin, who would determine if she could race in Limone. He met us in the bright lobby of his practice and then led us down a flight of stairs into a low-ceilinged exam room. Hillary had met Neil through a local climber who recommended him.
When I asked Neil if he worked solely with athletes, he replied, “Try to find someone in Chamonix who’s not.”
He took a seat on a stool and instructed Hillary to stand barefoot. “You heal well,” he said, and she bounced a little in excitement. “How’s it going on your tiptoes?”
“I was trying this yesterday,” she said, lifting one heel and then the other.
“Now little hops.”
She winced.
“Super rigid,” Neil observed. “Not to worry.”
Hillary sat with her legs extended as Neil massaged the tendons in her calf, pulled on her heel, bent her toes. At last, he taped her ankle, and she stood up again. “That’s looking nice,” he said. “A bit more range.”
“So, in your opinion, do you think I can go around the course?”
“This is what I think,” Neil replied. “You’re going to do a good tape job, and you’re going to be very conscious of what’s going on. Tactically, don’t try to lead them out, but leave yourself the option of being competitive.”
Hillary beamed.
It was sunny when we arrived in Limone, but on the morning of the race, clouds descended, spitting a light rain. Boats rocked on a steel-colored lake, as puffed-up swans skulked along the edge.
The first racer to appear at the start was Sheila Avilés, a lithe Catalonian in a black-and-white windbreaker, who had the prance and aesthetic of a zebra. Avilés was favored to win the series. I watched her jog back and forth as a sound system blared Ed Sheeran and Khalid’s “Beautiful People” and racers crowded the start line. Amid the neon spandex, the sculpted bodies, the cowbells, the British pop, the emcee leaping rapidly between languages, I had landed in a Euro fantasia.
Hillary was nowhere to be found. The evening before, I had visited her in her hotel room, which she shared with Holly Page, the racer with whom she won the Monte Rosa Skymarathon. They had met in Limone two years earlier, when a series organizer asked Hillary if she minded a roommate. Now, whenever they attended the same race, the organizers made sure to room them together.
I had asked if either had a prerace routine. “When I first started, I had my go-to meal I’d make beforehand,” Hillary said. “But you really don’t want to get attached to one thing, because what if you can’t find it in the place you’re traveling to?”
“I used to wear lucky knickers,” said Holly. “Then one day I forgot them, and I won the race, and I was like, ‘Oh, the lucky knickers are not lucky.’”
“I mean, I feel like the goal is to not have lucky knickers, not have lucky anything,” Hillary said.
Now, 10 minutes before the start of the race, I spotted her. “My ankle’s sore,” she told me and disappeared into the scrum of racers.
There was a countdown, and then they were sprinting along the waterfront, banking left through a corridor into the old city, past gelaterias and pizzerias and shops selling limoncello, under arches spilling bougainvillea blossoms, until the route cut west through oak-strewn crags that rose above the lake.
As soon as they were out of sight, I took off running, too, up a rugged shortcut that would deliver me to a midpoint on the racecourse. The city shrank below, and all I could see were terra-cotta roofs and fluorescent swimming pools, lawn chairs reclining empty at their sides, and then the roofs and pools disappeared as well, the trail swallowed up by clouds.
When I reached the midstation an hour later, I found men and women huddled beneath an awning. I heard a clamor of voices, a cowbell, and the first racer, a Japanese man, emerged around a bend. There was a rush of men, and then Avilés in her zebra jacket, trailing a Romanian named Denisa Dragomir. Only eight minutes later, after five other women had passed, Hillary appeared.
It was then that I noticed the same emotion rising inside of me that I felt whenever I saw Hillary win a race from the distance of another continent. What was it, this gutty mix of joy and love and pride that made me want to leap and shout encouragement? There was something at once confirming and miraculous to me in what Hillary was doing—something about watching an old friend, another woman my age, push her body to the limit of what it could do and be so undeniably good at it.
Later, Hillary would tell me how exhausted she had felt—how, for the first hours of the race, she had focused her mind on the exact placement of her feet so she would not worsen her injury. After I saw her, I took off running again, descending the thousand meters to the finish, where I waited for her to reappear.
The first woman to arrive was Dragomir, followed two minutes later by Avilés. Then came the other five, among them the Dutch racer, Ragna Debats. If Hillary had not lost her place, she would be next, but minutes passed, and no racer came. The rain fell harder.
I had begun to wonder if she had dropped out when I sensed movement in the crowd. I craned my neck but could not see past the mass of spectators. Then the emcee called out: “Always smiling, the beautiful—”
And I knew that it was Hillary.
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Ensuring quality by unifying development teams and tools
The global media industry continues to change rapidly as new technologies and new operating models emerge. Competition from other national broadband providers and from global streaming media services means that Sky Italia must constantly evolve and improve its offerings in order to retain existing customers and attract new ones. In line with other leading bundlers of pay TV, Sky Italia is also creating its own compelling content—under the Sky Originals banner—giving customers more reason to sign up or renew their contracts.
To support this ongoing evolution and improvement in services and content, and to enable the business to deliver on its long-term plans for operational innovation, Sky Italia recognized that it needed to transform its internal information technology capabilities. In particular, the company needed to improve the quality management and governance around its development projects.
There were clear opportunities for improvement both in organizational terms and in terms of tooling, as Simona Magale, head of information technology quality assurance at Sky Italia, explains: “Previously, teams in our software development center worked independently, each using its own practices and tools. In addition, there was no independent team responsible for quality assurance or for certifying that finished software conformed to the original expectations and specifications from the business.”
Scoping out a new approach
For many areas in the management of software quality and testing, Sky Italia had no standardized tools. The company was using OpenText™ test automation tools only for a very limited scope; standardization and the full adoption of test automation would provide an opportunity to review how these tools could fit into a larger and more robust scope.
The first step in the transformation at Sky Italia was the establishment of a fully independent Quality Assurance (QA) department to take responsibility for enhancing and guaranteeing quality right from the outset of any business initiative. The independent nature of the QA department was designed to ensure segregation of duties and full transparency in reporting on software quality.
Simona Magale comments, “There were three key areas we wanted to cover in QA. First: processes and methodologies, including the introduction of new control processes to monitor and validate IT implementation from strategy to execution. Second: new technologies to manage and certify software quality. And third: service execution, with enhanced test coordination and execution, more extensive automation, and the management of performance in production.”
For its future standardized technology platform for software QA, Simona Magale’s team rationalized its goals into five pillars: methodologies, quality governance, change management which turned out to be the most challenging element—continuous improvement, and finally execution and monitoring. With these pillars in place, the company engaged with multiple external vendors in an RFP process to determine the best solution for its needs.
We got great support and education from the Micro Focus (now part of OpenText™) professional services teams, and we took the approach of top-down sponsorship from the business, including the CEO, CIO, and CTO.
Transforming with OpenText
Based on its previous experience of OpenText technologies, and on the scoring from its RFP process, Sky Italia selected ALM Octane as its strategic solution for managing, optimizing, and monitoring software quality from end to end. The company integrated ALM Octane with its new Jenkins platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Sky Italia added Grafana for test governance, reporting and dashboarding, and is considering the addition of AppQuality and Applause for crowd testing of applications.
Sky Italia also deployed several other OpenText toolsets, including: UFT Digital Lab for testing mobile apps on both physical and emulated devices; LoadRunner Enterprise for performance and load testing; Service Virtualization for the realistic simulation of production environments. The company also deployed Release Control for future use in linking planning and analysis with automated change execution and validation; and Deployment Automation for future use in rapid and compliant continuous delivery. A Vertica database is used to store metrics from Jenkins and feed them into Grafana analytics and dashboarding tools. With the OpenText portfolio offering all of the required tools, Sky Italia was able to achieve end-to-end coverage of the full value stream management chain from a single source, reducing complexity and integration effort.
“This was a significant transformation project, and it required a lot of internal effort and commitment—but the results certainly justified this investment!” says Simona Magale. “We got great support and education from the Micro Focus (now part of OpenText™) professional services teams, and we took the approach of top-down sponsorship from the business, including the CEO, CIO, and CTO. We set up several workshops to inform and educate employees from both the business and the IT organizations, including quality management training for 600 people, and requirements management training for 180 people. Getting people to change their working practices is the biggest challenge, and the process of evangelization is ongoing. But because we deployed the solution with a real focus on our business requirements, we are confident that the transformation will continue to go from strength to strength.”
End-to-End visibility
The OpenText solution is designed to provide business agility, full automation, and end-to-end visibility in software quality. ALM Octane helps Sky Italia to aggregate agile development teams so that they can continue to work independently and flexibly towards the same goal in a coordinated way. It supports a continuous approach to software delivery from beginning to end and covers quality management for all types of development including web and mobile apps, APIs, and web services.
Working together, the OpenText tools support software QA throughout the end-to-end software lifecycle, from business requirements, through the definition of user scenarios, to the development and approval first of high-level design documentation and then of low-level design documentation, to the management of bug fixing, to the execution and monitoring of user acceptance testing (UAT).
A critical success factor in managing any application lifecycle is ensuring that stakeholders have full visibility of everything in the pipeline. At Sky Italia, the OpenText tools work with other tools to provide clear dashboards of actionable data about the productivity, velocity, security, and quality of application development. With immediate visibility into all aspects of the quality management process, stakeholders are empowered to make better decisions at higher speed.
The Micro Focus (now part of OpenText™) solution helps us provide full traceability for releases, packages, business requirements, manual testing, automated testing, and performance testing, so we can work backwards from defects to rapidly fix the problem at the source, multiplying the value of the solution.
Rapid return on investment
The ALM Octane environment at Sky Italia is helping the company to improve the alignment between business and IT stakeholders throughout the application lifecycle, which in turn shortens the demand-to-value chain. In a nutshell, the company can now turn emerging requirements into secure, high-quality applications faster and more efficiently. The environment supports hybrid development modes, eliminating barriers between waterfall and agile development teams, enabling managers to deploy their applications in a repeatable and automated way. Both business and IT stakeholders can access all the information they need in a single, global view of development and operations.
With full visibility of every stage in the application lifecycle, and full traceability of defects from pre-production releases back to code, decisions are now based on accurate, actionable data. Simona Magale says, “The new application lifecycle management environment provides fantastic dashboards and monitoring capabilities that are proving to be extremely useful. We have implemented a large number of dashboards, and we find it very valuable to be able to see what is happening across all stages of the lifecycle.”
She adds, “The Micro Focus (now part of OpenText™) solution helps us provide full traceability for releases, packages, business requirements, manual testing, automated testing, and performance testing, so we can work backwards from defects to rapidly fix the problem at the source, multiplying the value of the solution.”
Future plans: clear skies ahead
The new IT tools and processes are already widely used at Sky Italia, and the standardization of approaches across teams maximizes the value of the company’s latest investments in application lifecycle management. Simona Magale says, “Change management has been the most important and challenging element for us. We’re successfully building a mindset of ongoing process improvement because we can now see exactly where the bottlenecks are and how to resolve them. Contributing to this is better visibility in governance over the performance of external suppliers.”
Now that Sky Italia has a standardized global approach to application lifecycle management based on OpenText (formerly Micro Focus) solutions, the company is building on this foundation to further develop the efficiency and speed of its practices. “We have seen great results already, and there is still more work to do,” says Simona Magale. “We plan to introduce closer monitoring and control over the release and deploy processes, and to bring in more detailed information so that we can automate integrated releases. We also plan to introduce automatic provisioning of data for test environments.”
She concludes: “Ultimately, we are targeting a strategy of extreme shift-left for all development aiming at low code application development. Micro Focus (now part of OpenText™) gives us all of the tools we need to achieve end-to-end coverage of the full value stream management chain. We are delighted with what we have already achieved with Micro Focus (now part of OpenText™), and we look forward to further enhancing the efficiency, speed, visibility, and quality of our end-to-end application lifecycle management.”
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To profitably reach its goals, Sky needed to put in place an operating model that would provide new levels of automation, speed, agility, efficiency, and stability for its business processes, especially the critical ones. One such example is the winner selection process for its Sky Extra voting contests. This process is fundamental to the company’s revenue and reputation.
For some of its most popular shows, such as X Factor, 4 Restaurants, and Uomo Partita (Man of the Match), Sky promotes online national contests that allow Sky Extra subscribers to vote for their preferred artists through a decoder or the Sky App, and enter a contest for a prize drawing. Sky’s customers love these contests, especially when exciting prizes are at stake.
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As I'm writing this review it's my first day of playing it. First of all it's easy and simple to play, when I first seen this game I thought it was just going to be a game where you learn and watch. I was really wrong, this game is very calm, fun, and you can make friends! This is the first time I've rated a game 5 stars and I personally think that this is one of the best games I had. I met this one person on here and they were really nice and helped me throughout the game, (yes this is my first day playing) people in here seem really nice and I'm happy that you made this game for people to enjoy. The only downside to this game in MY opinion is, actually NOTHING this game is just so great! Each time I make a review I just write a bit, but for this I can write soooo much about it even tho I've only played for less than an hour. I suggest you to try it (who evers reading this) even if you don't think you'll like it. Just give it a chance and this might turn into one of your favorite games out there. One of my favorite things about this game is that it gives us notifications about when our friend is online instead of waiting, another one of my favorite things is that it's not one of those games where it just tells you what to do. You can explore on your own and the art is great! The sounds also give us a great experience for what we're doing in the game. I hope you also enjoy this game like I am!
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Sky and Fastweb have announced today that they have signed a multi-year partnership to launch Sky Mobile in Italy in early 2024.
Powered by Fastweb, Sky Mobile will offer a reliable and fast service at an attractive price, and provides an additional connectivity service for new and existing Sky customers. For Fastweb, who will offer the service through a distribution agreement, the deal strengthens its position in the mobile market where it continues its double-digit growth.
From launch, Sky Mobile will provide 5G services, thanks to the quality of Fastweb's mobile service, the fastest in Italy* according to Ookla®, and with 99% coverage in Italy.
“We are excited to announce the launch of Sky Mobile thanks to an agreement with Fastweb, which is also our technology partner for Sky Wifi’s broadband," commented Andrea Duilio, CEO of Sky Italia. "After entering the homes of millions of Italians with our exclusive content and the ultrabroadband of Sky Wifi, with the launch of Sky Mobile we want to complete our service offer becoming a point of reference for Sky families also for all their connectivity needs”.
"The partnership with Sky confirms the leading role of our fixed and mobile infrastructures," said Walter Renna, Chief Executive Officer of Fastweb. “Thanks to this distribution agreement our positioning on the mobile market is further strengthened”.
With Sky Mobile, Sky aims to offer an even more complete experience to its customers and to be a partner of Italian families, thanks to the distinctive quality of its entertainment, cinema and sports content, the innovative viewing experience of Sky Glass, and the ultrabroadband of Sky Wifi, which has won several awards for its quality and speed.
Sky Mobile first launched in the UK in 2017 and is the fastest growing mobile operator with more than three million customers. This year it won Best Mobile Virtual Network Operator at the Mobile Industry Awards 2023.
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Revenue of the television company Sky Italia from 2011 to 2022 (in billion euros)
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After completing acquisition of Sky Italia and taking a majority interest in Sky Deutschland, the new company will serve 20 million customers across five nations
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Sky announced a name change in response to its growing European presence. The company formerly known as British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has officially rebranded as Sky in light of its acquisition of Sky Italia and majority stake in Sky Deutschland.
The company announced that the new group will serve 20 million customers across five nations (Austria, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Ireland). In a statement, the company also touted that it will be Europe’s leading entertainment company as well as one of the largest employers with 31,000 staff across 30 main sites.
“The three Sky businesses will be even better together,” said Jeremy Darroch, group chief executive for Sky. “We have the opportunity to create a business that can lead and shape our industry in the future. Customers will benefit as we launch exciting new services, bring them even more great TV and accelerate innovation across all of the markets in which we operate.”
Sky is looking at the 60 million households across their five markets that do not currently have pay TV, as well as continuing investments in original programming and advancing the technology to offer more choice and better quality over broadcast, online and mobile platforms.
“By joining together, we will share our strengths and expertise while retaining a strong identity in each country where we operate,” added Darroch. “The opportunity ahead is substantial and we believe the new Sky will be good for customers, content creators and shareholders alike.”
Darroch will oversee the joint group, as well as maintaining his leadership position over the UK and Ireland business. Adnrea Zappia will remain as chief executive of Sky Italia while Brian Sullivan retains the same position at Sky Deutschland AG. Andrew Griffith will be the group chief financial officer.
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Rafa Benitez hailed the support of the Everton fans as his side snatched a late victory against Arsenal. Lampard must prioritise attitude over formation Crucially, Everton can now take games to their opponents - and not just adapt their team within games. Rai 1 - La diretta in streaming video su Diretta Rai 1. Diretta Rai 1. Rai 1 è il primo canale televisivo Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana Spa Sede legale: Viale Mazzini, 14 - 00195 Roma Cap. The Norwegian centre-back provided his first assist of the season on Saturday, turning provider for Van Veen's second-half strike. That's why we're champions, sang the Chelsea supporters in response but United were keen to spoil the party and England international Ella Toone's deflected strike once again put them in front. Teams that previously played in lower divisions are now doing battle in the knockout stages of the Champions League and Copa Libertadores, while traditional clubs struggle to make ends meet and risk relegation. But QPR, in their first game for 22 days because of Covid, missed the chance to move into the top six with the defeat. Junior Messias scored his first Milan goal on his third appearance He scored nine goals despite the club being relegated, and that earned him a loan move to Milan. The midfielder played 60 matches for Inter, helping the club win Serie A last season, and scored eight goals. After a long, bizarre and perhaps tricky to understand run of one win in 13 matches (inside 90 minutes), Brighton have two in two from doing a north London double over Arsenal and Spurs. Olanda Turchia in tv e streaming: dove vedere i quarti di Leggi su Sky Sport l'articolo Olanda-Turchia, dove vedere la partita degli Europei 2024 in tv e streaming. Copyright 2024 Sky Italia - Sky ... !~[[DIRETTA-GRATIS]!*Italia-Turchia In DIRETTA Streaming [DIRETTA-GRATIS]!*Italia-Turchia In DIRETTA Streaming Gratis segui l'amichevole di oggi prima di Euro 2024 LIVE by hasat, released 04 June 2024. City could have been further ahead at the break or level, with Foden dragging a shot wide on the counter before Sancho blazed over from an identical position from which he had earlier scored. They have never lost consecutive home matches in the competition.Manchester City have lost their last three FA WSL matches, their longest ever losing run in the competition. On one occasion, he fired a yard wide of the far post. On another, he was denied by Fabianski while trying to find the same corner of the net. The reason the five substitutes were implemented was for COVID, now we have a COVID situation again and we still have 18 players on the team-sheet. For me, it makes sense to be able to substitute not just three, but five players. He's still finding out about his players. But I think it's a good start in that they've won both games. 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Sheffield United at Cardiff on Good Friday, where we won a great game and Leeds had to win the following day and didn't. After all the difficulties of the COVID pandemic, it was great to finally come together with friends and family to watch a game that never felt more beautiful. The trial had been set to hear from more than 60 witnesses, including a well-known goalkeeper and had already been extended from 15 to 25 days. We were looking at each other too many times instead of taking ownership and doing what we have to do. It is a crying shame that he's not playing week-in week out and I'd love to see him playing in the Premier League. Europei 2024 di Calcio: dove vedere le Partite in TV e EURO 2024: dove vedere tutte le partite dell'Italia in live streaming? Dove Goditi le partite in streaming: prova gratis EOLO per 2 mesi! Verifica ... A draw would be a great result. They will have been relieved to see Blackburn lose in midweek at the very least. diretta TV live e streaming - TV8 ... ? S19 Ep17 - Lady Killer. Vuoi vedere altro? Streaming · Programmazione · Intrattenimento · Cinema. tv8. Guarda Anche: CIELO TV · X Factor · MasterChef Italia. Utimately the right team won the match and Xavi's disappointment was compounded by Ansu Fati, who made his return to the first team as a substitute, leaving the field after pulling a muscle. Diaz will fit in perfectly at Liverpool'Portuguese football expert Filipe Dias on Transfer Talk: Luis Diaz, the best player in the Portuguese league, is going to be joining Liverpool. Rangers sporting director Ross Wilson is leading the search for a replacement, with the club understood to be happy with the strength of candidates and focused on getting the right fit for the job instead of rushing into a decision. I said Tottenham play how they play but are still only fifth. It felt good at the moment but it is probably wrong.â Italia-Turchia ore 21: dove vederla in tv, streaming e Italia-Turchia verrà trasmessa in diretta tv in chiaro su Rai Uno e in differita sui canali Sky Sport, da mezzanotte in avanti. Dove vedere ... Dove vedere Italia-Francia di pallavolo oggi in tv Italia-Francia si può vedere in diretta tv gratis stasera su Rai 2. Turchia (Türkçe), Uganda (English), Ungheria (Magyar), Vietnam (Tiếng ... Swansea, meanwhile, took a 1-0 lead into the second leg and held on against Barnsley, drawing 1-1 in the second leg to win 2-1 on aggregate. âAnother issue is the agreement with the clubs, it's not my business. If the club isn't accepting the offer, you have to stay. That's why players have marvellous agents, they negotiate through the media, the weapons they have to do the deals. It's not the case for Ferran. I have said many times before, the boss wasn't just the greatest and best manager I ever played under, he was also a father figure to me from the moment I arrived at the club at the age of 11 until the day I left. There was a flair and direct running to his game that made him look like the Sancho at Borussia Dortmund. To get to the finals, New Zealand will now have to beat Costa Rica in a one-off playoff in Qatar in mid-June. I love this club and I love my country even though sometimes things don't happen how I wanted. I will continue to work harder and make things right. The Pharaohs managed to successfully convert all their penalties, which were scored by Ahmed Zizo, Amroel Soulia, Omar Kamal, Mohamed Abdelmonem, and Mohamed Salah, while the Elephants scored their four shots through the efforts of Nicolas Pepe, Ibrahim Sangare, Maxwel Cornet, and Wilfried Zaha. Italia-Turchia, alle 21 da Bologna l'amichevole degli La partita sarà visibile in esclusiva in diretta in chiaro su Rai 1 e in streaming gratis su Raiplay. Italia (4-2-3-1): Vicario; Di Lorenzo, ... Guarda la tv turca in diretta: tanti canali turchi in streaming Tutti i migliori canali turchi sono disponibili in diretta streaming online. I migliori canali della Turchia disponibili online sono TRT1, Cine5, Star TV, ... For the visitors, Joshua King is available at 12/1 (13.00) to open the scoring, something the Norwegian has done on three occasions this season, including in the last home game against United. Man Utd players return to training after Covid outbreakArnold to be named new Man Utd CEOSharp was a member of Chris Armas' coaching staff at MLS side Toronto FC for a six-month spell earlier this year prior to the head coach's sacking in July after just two wins in 15 games. Sibbick, who hadn't played since November, stepped in to replace the injured John Souttar and can be very pleased with his second debut for the club as he suggested he can fill the considerable gap that will be left when the Scotland defender joins Rangers at the end of the season. Cristiano Ronaldo has admitted that he is not happy with what Manchester United are achieving while calling for higher spirit and a stronger mentality in the dressing room. Lilleâs scouting is known to be one of the best in Europe and so we asked Morin about any potential young players we should be keeping an eye on during the tie. The last answer may well surprise you.
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Summer is here, and if you're planning on visiting Italy to enjoy the sunshine, we've got the perfect thing if you need a bit of a break from the heat. The best way to keep cool is, of course, with a typical, homemade gelato ice cream.
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Summer is here, and if you're planning on visiting Italy to enjoy the sunshine, we've got the perfect thing if you need a bit of a break from the heat. The best way to keep cool is, of course, with a typical, homemade gelato ice cream.
Traditional Italian Gelato
Ice cream in Italy is like nowhere else in the world, and once you’ve tried it, nothing else will compare. Italian gelato has become popular worldwide for its rich, creamy texture and intense flavours, although the best gelato is of course found in Italy. It is often considered a more refined and artisanal version of ice cream and one of the main differences between gelato and normal ice cream is the composition. Gelato is made with a base of milk, sugar, and often eggs, while ice cream typically includes a higher proportion of cream. This lower fat content gives Italian gelato a smoother and softer texture, and it’s got a little je ne sais quoi (or non so cosa) that makes it truly unique.
One of the hallmarks of Italian gelato is the wide range of flavours available. In addition to classic ice cream flavours like vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, traditional Italian gelaterias often offer a plethora of creative and unique options. You can find gelato ice cream flavours such as pistachio, hazelnut, coffee, tiramisu, stracciatella (chocolate chip), fruity sorbets, and even more unique gelato flavour choices like lavender or saffron. But what is the most popular flavour of ice cream in Italy? Check out our gelato flavours list, including the Italian ice cream names, so that you can try them all on your next trip to Italy.
During the summer there is nothing better than going in search of the perfect taste in the numerous different Italian ice cream parlours that are found across the country. You can find loads of rankings online of the best ice cream parlours in Italy, but today we’re switching things up: we want to tell you about the most famous and popular Italian ice cream flavours.
The 10 best ice cream flavours to try in Italy
Check out our gelato flavours list to make sure you don't miss out on the best ice cream flavours to try in Italy:
Crema (cream)
Cioccolato (classic chocolate, but like you’ve never experienced before)
Pistacchio (pistachio ice.cream, and the gelato is a pale, dusty green, that’s a good thing)
Stracciatella (vanilla with chocolate bits)
Mandorla (almond)
Limone (refreshing lemon)
Fragola (strawberry)
Spumoni (a multicoloured ice cream with fruit and nuts, like Neapolitan on steroids)
Bacio (chocolate and hazelnut)
Frutti di scusa (fruit)
While this is a great list to get started, especially when it comes to recognising Italian ice cream names, you should be careful when choosing your Italian ice cream flavour… if you can, check the ingredients contained in the product because it’s not always easy to understand in a few seconds whether the ice cream in front of you is a homemade, artisan ice cream of excellent quality or not.
How to recognise good gelato in Italy
Gelato has a long history in Italy and is deeply rooted in Italian culinary traditions. Here are some simple tips and tricks to know if you’re eating true artisan Italian ice cream:
a good ice cream must have a natural colour (without artificial colouring)
a good ice cream should not be too bright or opaque
a good ice cream must have the right consistency, i.e. medium-hard
a good ice cream should be fresh, made with fresh milk and cream
a good homemade ice cream should not contain preservatives
But what about that age-old question – cone or tub? Which should you choose to eat ice cream like a real Italian? Gelato is typically served in a display case in the gelateria, where it is stored at a slightly warmer temperature than traditional ice cream. It is scooped into a cup or a cone and often garnished with fresh fruit, nuts, or a dollop of whipped cream.
However, true connoisseurs and lovers of ice cream recommend tasting a flavour strictly in a tub to be able to feel the full force of the taste without contamination or strange mixtures. If, on the other hand, you’re more of a cone person, then by all means go ahead and eat your ice cream in a cone. Just make sure it’s crunchy and fresh.
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DEGW has, for example, designed a new workspace based on the operations people carry out during an entire working day, actually facilitating them by implementing new means of using spaces and introducing innovative work settings.
After a careful study, it was discovered that enclosed spaces were used on average 40% of the time spent at the company. As well as the amount of space used, the type of use was also analyzed: 20% of this 40% was for individual duties and 20% for joint operations, such as business meetings and other forms of interaction.
It was, therefore, decided to increase the number of small, medium-sized and large meeting rooms in the new office facility, also equipping it with touchdowns, informal spaces, quiet rooms and all those ancillary areas facilitating corporate business and allowing informal meetings between people.
The concept design is also geared to the specific needs of the client, who was looking for a perfect balance between technology, brainstorming and free-thinking, reducing the number of enclosed offices while increasing the ancillary areas: meeting rooms of various sizes, informal meeting rooms, touch down/break areas to encourage socializing, phone booths, quiet rooms and one-to-one meeting spaces to ensure there are areas for concentrating or enjoying privacy.
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Deal includes Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 rights, as well as relegation play-offs and German Supercup
Sky Italia extends its partnership with Bundesliga, having first broadcast matches from the German top flight in 2003
Bundesliga International, a subsidiary of the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga, has agreed a four-year deal with Sky Italia up to the end of the 2024-25 season.
The new deal, which begins with the 2021-22 season, includes rights to both Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 matches, the Bundesliga relegation play-offs, and the German Supercup, as well as additional magazines shows such as the highlights and “Bundesliga Weekly” programmes.
As one of Italy’s most renowned sports broadcasters, Sky Italia will continue to show the German top flight on its subscription channels, as well as utilising its full range of digital and social platforms to promote the Bundesliga. In addition to the live broadcasts, Sky will produce a weekly live segment dedicated to the Bundesliga, as part of its international football show EuroShow, aired on the broadcaster’s sports news channel Sky Sport24. Furthermore, Bundesliga International and Sky Italia will work in parallel to create more content opportunities, bringing the league’s biggest names closer to supporters throughout Italy.
Robert Klein, Bundesliga International CEO said: “There is a rich history between German and Italian football and our partnership with Sky Italia is built on many years of mutual trust and respect – we are delighted to be able to announce this extension. Our fans in Italy will get the best of the Bundesliga and look out for some cool new content formats as we continue to innovate with Sky Italia going forward.”
Marzio Perrelli, Executive Vice President Sport at Sky Italia, said: “We are pleased to have reached this agreement and be able to continue broadcasting the Bundesliga, one of the most prestigious leagues on the international soccer scene. Sky subscribers will thus be able to experience the thrills of great European football, reflecting how much Sky believes and continues to invest in the most spectacular sport in the world. The big challenges between the top clubs of the German league and their champions will be told with the usual mix of passion and competence for which the Sky Sport team stands out”.
The Bundesliga first appeared on Sky Italia during its inaugural year, broadcasting matches throughout the 2003-04 season. Since then, the Bundesliga has welcomed Italian World Cup winners, such as Luca Toni and Andrea Barzagli, as well as legendary managers including Carlo Ancelotti.
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Basic HD + Sky Calcio HD sky.
With Sky TV enjoy best entertainment programs: great shows, the best TV shows of the time, information and sports.
Treat for the whole family, with 'Family' pack which combines large chains of documentaries with youth programs!
Every night with the Sky movies offer get an exceptional choice of great movies
With the pack 'Calcio' vibrate on all terrains and choose from 7 matches on each day of the Italian Championship A series 10
Give you a great show with the biggest football leagues: the UEFA Champions League and the Europa League, the Premier league, the Bundesliga..., but also basketball, tennis...
How to activate your card Sky Italy
In order to register and activate your Sky Italy subscription, you must provide the following:
The chosen formula (minimum Sky TV)
A copy of your identity card or passport (all European countries)
contract sent by email.
The following monthly allowances are based on the chosen formula:
Sky TVSky familySky Cinema
√ 33 mandatory channels
√ 8 channels√ 17 channels€ 21.60 * VAT/month€5.40 * / month TTC€16.20 * / month TTC
Sky SportSky Calcio
√ 10 channels
√ 12 channels€15.20 * / month TTC€15.20 * / month TTC
Additional options:
Sky HD€6.40 * VAT / month
* Rate out of current promotions. The monthly payments will be paid directly by Sky Italy on your bank account. changing the operator's reserved slot
Upon subscription, Sky will be charged €79 * charge for access, including the current month.
Details of the offers
Sky TV - 33 canali
Sky TG 24 HD, Rete 4 HD, Channel 5 HD, Italia 1 HD, Sky one HD, Sky Uno + 1 HD, Sky Atlantic HD, Sky Atlantic + 1 HD, Fox HD, Fox Life HD, Fox Crime HD, Premium Crime HD, Crime + Investigation HD, Arte HD, TV8 HD Sky , Premium HD, Premium HD, Blaze Joi Stories HD, Premium HD, Fox HD, MTV HD Animation Action, HD, Fox HD Comedy Classica, Nove HD 20 HD, Cielo HD, Real Time HD, DMAX HD, Eurosport 1 HD, Eurosport 2 HD, Channel HD, Nat Geo HD, Gambero Rosso People Bike Channel HD
Sky Famiglia - 8 canali
Discovery Channel HD, National Geographic HD, Discovery Science HD, History HD, National Geographic Wild HD, Cartoon Network HD, Disney Channel HD, Disney XD HD
Sky Cinema - 17 canali
Sky Cinema Uno HD, Sky Cinema + 24 HD, Sky Cinema Hits HD, Sky movies Family HD, Sky Cinema Max HD, Sky movies Passion HD, Sky movies Comedy HD, Sky Cinema Cult HD, Sky movies Classics HD, Premium Cinema HD, Premium Cinema + 24 HD, Premium Cinema Energy HD Premium Cinema Emotion HD, Premium movies Comedy HD, Sky movies Uno + 1 HD, Sky Cinema + 1 HD, Sky Cinema Max + 1 HD Family
Sky Sports - 10 canali
Sky Sport 24 HD, Sky Sport Uno HD, Sky Sports Football HD, Sky Sport Arena HD, Sky Sports Golf HD, Sky Sports NBA HD, Sky Sport HD F1, Sky Sport HD, Roma TV, HD SuperTennis MotoGP
Sky Calcio - 12 canali
Sky Sport 24 HD, Sky Sport series has HD, Sky Sport Football HD, Roma TV, Sky Sport HD (canali dal 251 al 258)
The TV provider is solely responsible for the content of its packages and availability
channels included in its offer.
To receive the channels SKY Italia, your antenna must be directed to the satellite Hotbird at 13 ° is
Only Sky HD, or Xdome box receivers are compatible with the Sky Italy maps
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For other uses, see Sky Sport.
Television channel
Sky Sport is a group of nine sports satellite TV channels in the Italian language produced and broadcast by Sky Italia.
EPG Logo Channel name Launch Sky
Box DTT 200, 238, 250, 503 481 Sky Sport 24 August 30, 2008 N Sky Sport 24 HD September 24, 2011 201, 239 482 Sky Sport Uno July 31, 2003 472 Sky Sport Uno HD July 10, 2006 202, 240, 249 483 Sky Sport Calcio July 2, 2018 473 Sky Sport Calcio HD 203, 241 N Sky Sport Football July 31, 2003 Sky Sport Football HD July 10, 2006 204, 242 Sky Sport Arena July 31, 2003 Sky Sport Arena HD July 10, 2006 205, 243 Sky Sport Tennis July 2, 2018 Sky Sport Tennis HD 206, 244 Sky Sport Action July 1, 2021 Sky Sport Action HD 207, 245 Sky Sport F1 February 18, 2013 Sky Sport F1 HD 208, 246 Sky Sport MotoGP March 10, 2014 Sky Sport MotoGP HD 209, 247 Sky Sport NBA July 2, 2018 Sky Sport NBA HD
The channel "Roma TV" is also included in the Sky Sport package.
Sky Sport 24 is a sports all-news channel. With 24 hour cycle, of which 14 & 1/2 hours of live content (10:00–00:30) and 9 & 1/2 hours of reruns (00:30–10:00), it broadcasts current event updates, press conferences and breaking news all related to sport. British equivalent is Sky Sports News.
Sky Sport Uno (until July 1, 2018, Sky Sport 1) is the flagship channel of Sky Sport, dedicated to major sporting events. The British equivalent was Sky Sports 1, however it is now Sky Sports Main Event after it was renamed.
Sky Sport Calcio (Sky Sport Serie A until July 1, 2021, available only with the Sky Calcio pack) is a TV channel created for Serie A and Serie B matches rights. This channel is similar to the British, Sky Sports Premier League, equivalent.
Sky Sport Football is the channel dedicated to non-Italian football.
These are Sky Sport's Footballing rights used by this channel:
UEFA Competitions
UEFA Champions League (121 matches per season live until 2024)
UEFA Europa League (until 2024)
UEFA Europa Conference League (until 2024)
Country Leagues
Premier League (until 2025)
Bundesliga (until 2025)
2.Bundesliga (until 2025)
Ligue 1 (until 2024)
J1 League (with OneFootball via Bushiroad)
This channel has other equivalents in other countries Sky operates.
As with other equivalents in other countries, Sky Sport Arena is a multi-sport channel for other rights not covered or clashes by other Sky Sport channels.
These are some Sky Sport's rights used by this channel:
Basketball
EuroBasket (2021)
AfroBasket (2021)
FIBA AmeriCup (2021)
FIBA Asia Cup (2021)
Tennis
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (until 2023)
ATP Finals (until 2023)
Wimbledon (until 2022)
Rugby union
The Rugby Championship
Currie Cup
Heineken Champions Cup
Challenge Cup
Wrestling
All Elite Wrestling
Sailing
America's Cup
Handball
2021 World Championships
EHF Champions League
2020 Women's European Championships
EHF Euro 2022
Athletics
Diamond League (except for the Golden Gala)
Continental Tour Gold
Waterpolo
LEN Champions League
Volleyball
CEV Champions League
CEV Women's Champions League
Sky Sport Tennis (known as Sky Sport Golf until July 21, 2019 and as Sky Sport Collection until June 28, 2021) is a channel dedicated to tennis, which airs Wimbledon tournament and other ATP tournaments, including Next Gen ATP Finals and Nitto ATP Finals, all Masters 1000 tournaments, 5 ATP 500 tournaments and 7 ATP 250 tournaments. From 13 January 2021 until 24 March of the same year, the channel is renamed as Sky Sport America's Cup, with 24 hours a day dedicated the 2021 America's Cup.[1]
Sky Sport Action, available since July 1, 2021 is a channel dedicated to motorsports, e.g. DTM and Porsche Carrera Cup but also other sports aired by Sky Italy, as rugby and wrestling.
Sky Sport NBA is the channel dedicated to the American basketball competitions.
These are Sky Sport's basketballing rights used by this channel:
NBA (until 2023)
WNBA (until 2022)
This channel, for motor-car racing, uses rights given by the FIA including these events:
Classes (Formulas)
F1 (until 2022)
F2 (until 2022)
F3 (until 2022)
Cups
Porsche Supercup (until 2022)
Porsche Carrera Cup (until 2021)
This channel, for motorcycle racing, uses rights given by the FIM including these events:
Moto
MotoGP (until 2025)
Moto2 (until 2025)
Moto3 (until 2025)
MotoE (until 2025)
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CEV (until 2022)
CIV (until 2021)
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The sky in a room: 10 hotels where you can sleep under the stars and rediscover yourself
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Sleeping under the stars, catching the trail of a falling star to make a last wish before drifting off to sleep, perhaps embracing the person you love: once upon a time, this was an experience taken from the nights spent sleeping out on the beach, among mosquitoes, humidity and aching bones. Today, there are numerous hotels in Italy that can offer you the same intense experience with the comfort of an exclusive hotel room.
Igloos with transparent shells on the seashore, bubble rooms nestled in the thick of a forest, cosy chalets or mountain huts with transparent roofs from which to contemplate the starry sky and spend romantic evenings at any latitude: these are the top ten glamping, bubble hotels and hotels in Italy that offer an all-round experience of summer nights, for an unforgettable holiday.
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In South Tyrol, chalets with a view
These are a contemporary version of traditional South Tyrolean architecture, the Skyview Chalets, on Lake Dobbiaco, a few kilometres from the Cime di Lavaredo: 12 glass cubes, perfect for romantic escapes.
Each chalet has a private spa with infrared sauna and, in the deluxe version, a jacuzzi on the scenic terrace. To ensure the privacy of guests, breakfast is delivered to the door every morning by staff on electric quad bikes.
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In Trentino, immersed in the forest
From the province of Bolzano to that of Trento: at Sant'Orsola Terme, in Valsugana, the Maso La Marianna proposes the experience of a night in the silence of the forest, in a room fitted with every possible comfort, but wrapped in a transparent inflatable bubble, surrounded only by the foliage and the starry mantle.
The bubble room is connected to the farmstead by a sensory path to be trodden barefoot.
There is a dedicated sauna and a spare room with a private bathroom and changing room.
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The Lombardy cabrio-suite
Immersed in the vineyards of Franciacorta, just a few kilometres from Lake Iseo, surrounded by a park decorated with beautiful contemporary sculptures, the Albereta Relais, at Erbusco in the province of Brescia, offers its guests a special room, the cabriolet suite. There is a romantic surprise: at the touch of a button, the ceiling opens up to a starry sky, as if by magic.
This exclusive location is ideal if you are planning a declaration of love or a marriage proposal.
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In Piedmont, a biosphere where you can (dis)connect
On the terraces around Gorzegno, in the province of Cuneo, in the heart of the Alta Langa, amidst vineyards and wooded slopes, a Martian fleet seems to have landed! These are the transparent spheres of Gaia's Spheres, a B&B that pursues the desire to re-connect with oneself and with nature, immersed in the greenery and tranquillity of the landscape.
Each sphere provides guests with a cosy space of about 20 square metres, with a double bed and a relaxation area with a scenic view.
However, you will not find wi-fi or a TV here; indeed, mobile phones should be left outside, in the baskets provided. The only noises you will be disturbed by are the calls of the hawks, and the wind blowing through the leaves.
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In Tuscany, a bubble village for romantic escapes
It presents itself as an experience for "emotion seekers", a destination where you can find space, time and harmony: this is Ursa Major Bubble, Italy's first bubble village, located in Camporgiano in the heart of the Garfagnana, not far from Forte dei Marmi.
Here, inside one of five bubble-suites overlooking the sky and a valley surrounded by the Apennines and the Apuan Alps, you will find relaxation and seclusion.
There is absolute privacy: each bubble room is in fact isolated and located on a wooden platform in the middle of a forest, and the path to reach it is exclusive and not shared with the other suites.
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In Lazio, astrological glamping
Perseids is the scientific name for shooting stars, also known as the ‘the tears of San Lorenzo'. Right in San Lorenzo Nuovo, in the province of Viterbo, 5km from Lake Bolsena, is the Le Perseidi Bubble Glamping site.
A "constellation-camping" consisting of a suite and three bubble rooms, from which to admire the sky and the view of the lake. The first is called Sol, and it is also equipped with a telescope; then there is Mercurius, Venus and Mars, whose colours recall the planets after which they are named, with four-poster beds, a mini-pool with hydromassage and a garden.
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In Umbria, an eco-suite with a star-studded ceiling
Overlooking Lake Trasimeno, the Cantico della Natura, in Monte Sperello, in the province of Perugia, is an eco-resort converted from an ancient 17th-century convent, at the centre of an estate enlivened by an authentic ecological spirit.
As a sign of its continuity with nature, some of its most beautiful suites, the eco-suites, open up to capture the energy of the starry sky, thanks to a large skylight and windows that allow guests to enjoy a magnificent view of the lake at the same time.
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In Basilicata, a bubble under the snow
In Satriano di Lucania in the province of Potenza, the Atmosfera Bubble Glamping site is a plastic-free settlement designed with care for the environment and a low environmental impact, thanks to a powerful photovoltaic system that makes it energy self-sufficient.
The bubble rooms, furnished with contemporary design pieces, have names that recall natural elements and are open all year round, in all weather conditions, even in the snow.
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In Apulia, sustainable tourism one step from the sky
In the bubble camp located in the heights of Apulia, not far from the village of Biccari, on Monte Cornacchia, you can experience the magic of falling asleep just a step from the sky and waking up to the sounds of the forest.
Here, the bubble rooms, managed by a local community cooperative, have all the comforts of a hotel room and are built on wooden platforms immersed in nature. According to the intentions of the members, they support a sustainable tourism formula that does not need to alter the landscape in order to flourish.
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In Sicily, the sphere in the farm
Sicily's only bubble room is decidedly 'green' and is located near Messina, within the Azienda agricola Villarè, overlooking the breathtaking panorama of the Strait of Messina, amidst fragrant fields and vegetable gardens.
The bubble, made of recyclable materials, can accommodate up to four people. It is ideal for an immersive experience in nature to be enjoyed by the family: learning how to cultivate a vegetable garden, improvising as beekeepers and playing amidst music, dancing and sensory trails, among rabbits, ducks and donkeys.
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The Quadrantid meteor shower is one of a few each year with a narrow peak, in this case lasting only about 6 hours.
When to watch: The best night for the 2025 Quadrantids is January 2-3. (The predicted peak** is 19 UTC on January 3).
Nearest moon phase: A first quarter moon will come at 23:56 UTC on January 6, 2025 (CST) so the moon will be a waxing crescent and set late on January 2 and not interfere with the Quadrantid meteors.
Radiant: Rises in the north-northeast after midnight and is highest up before dawn. The radiant point for the Quadrantids is in a now-obsolete constellation, Quadrans Muralis the Mural Quadrant. Nowadays, we see the radiant near the famous Big Dipper asterism. Because the Quadrantid radiant is far to the north on the sky’s dome, this is mostly a far-northern shower, not as good for the Southern Hemisphere.
Expected meteors at peak, under ideal conditions: Under a dark sky with no moon, when the radiant is high in the sky, the Quadrantids can (briefly) produce over 100 meteors per hour.
Duration of shower: The Quadrantid meteor shower runs from mid-November through mid-January each year, according to this 2017 article in the journal Icarus. You might see a Quadrantid streak by any time during that interval. But most activity is centered on the peak.
Note: The Quadrantid shower is one of four major meteor showers each year with a sharp peak (the other three are the Lyrids, Leonids, and Ursids).
Report a fireball (very bright meteor) to the American Meteor Society: it’s fun and easy!
Quadrantids’ parent object(s)
From the late, great Don Machholz (1952-2022), who discovered 12 comets …
For many years, the parent comet for the Quadrantids remained unknown. That’s because astronomers were looking for an object whose orbit matched the orbit of the Quadrantids’ meteor stream. Other meteor showers do have parent objects whose orbits match their meteor streams.
But the Quadrantids’ parent object – or objects – are different. There are currently at least two related objects associated with Quadrantid meteors. Neither presently comes anywhere near Earth’s orbit. But both seem to be responsible for these early January meteors.
The chief object that spawns the Quadrantids is an asteroid named 2003 EH1. It’s believed to be a dormant or extinct comet. The Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) based near Flagstaff, Arizona, found asteroid 2003 EH1 on March 6, 2003. The asteroid takes 5.5 years to orbit the sun. Its closest point to the sun (perihelion) is 1.2 astronomical units (AU). One AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun.
In past centuries, 2003 EH1 must have passed much closer to the Earth’s orbit. Now, though, this asteroid stays well outside Earth’s orbit. Yet particles ejected from this asteroid do intersect Earth’s orbit, to produce the Quadrantids’ narrow peak.
And astronomers now say there is also a second, related object that also contributes to this meteor shower. The second object – Comet 96P/Machholz – produces a less intense and shallower peak. The material we see streaking across the sky left this comet centuries ago. Its perihelion distance is 0.12 AU, and it orbits the sun every 5.3 years. It was back near the Earth in late January 2023.
Another object might be involved
What’s the story on these two parent objects for the Quadrantids? The latest theory is that a large comet was captured by our sun and settled into a short-period orbit in about 2,000 BCE. This comet supplied meteors to the inner solar system and then it broke apart sometime between 100 CE and 950 CE. This breakup produced the Machholz Complex. In other words, there are multiple resultant offspring of this great comet. They are Comet 96P/Machholz, the Marsden Comet Group, the Kracht Comet Group, asteroid 2003 EH1, and eight meteor showers. The group is named the Machholz Complex after the main object, 96P/Machholz.
A comet that was seen more than 500 years ago, C/1490 Y1, might be involved, too. The orbit calculated for this comet comes from rough positions calculated for the comet’s predicted return, which should be every few years. But we have not seen this comet again. One study suggests it approached too close to the planet Jupiter. So it might have been thrown out of the solar system. That might be why we haven’t seen it since 1490. Or, the comet might have split up prior to its next return, producing the Machholz Complex.
This is not the final word about the parent objects of the Quadrantid meteor shower. Research continues among orbit calculators to better understand the transition of material from the surface of these objects to our Earth’s atmosphere every January. A new paper comes out nearly every year on the subject. That is how science works.
Regardless of their origins, the Quadrantid meteor shower is a fine way to start a new year.
The Quadrantid meteor shower radiant point
The radiant point of the Quadrantid shower makes an approximate right angle with the Big Dipper and the bright star Arcturus. If you trace the paths of the Quadrantid meteors backward, they appear to radiate from this point on the starry sky. See chart at the top of this page.
Now for our usual caveat. You don’t need to find the meteor shower radiant to see the Quadrantid meteors.
You need to be at mid-northern or far-northern latitudes, up in the wee hours of the morning, and hope the peak comes at just the right time to your part of the world.
The meteors will radiate from the northern sky but appear in all parts of the sky.
Constellation Quadrans Muralis?
Most meteor showers get their name from the constellations from which they appear to radiate. So it is with the Quadrantids. But the Quadrantids’ constellation no longer exists, except in memory. The name Quadrantid comes from the constellation Quadrans Muralis (Mural Quadrant). French astronomer Jerome Lalande created this constellation in 1795. This now-obsolete constellation was between the constellations of Boötes the Herdsman and Draco the Dragon. What happened to it? Where’d it go?
To understand the history of the Quadrantids’ name, we go back to the earliest observations of this meteor shower. In early January 1825, Antonio Brucalassi in Italy reported that:
… the atmosphere was traversed by a multitude of the luminous bodies known by the name of falling stars.
They appeared to radiate from Quadrans Muralis. In 1839, two men, Adolphe Quetelet of Brussels Observatory in Belgium and Edward C. Herrick in Connecticut, independently suggested the Quadrantids as an annual shower.
Then, in 1922, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) created a list of the 88 modern constellations. And it did not include Quadrans Muralis. Hardly anyone would remember this old constellation, if not for the Quadrantid meteor shower.
Quadrantid shower favors the Northern Hemisphere, but …
The Quadrantids favor the Northern Hemisphere because their radiant is so far north on the sky’s dome. If you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, you might be tempted to resign yourself to the months-long meteor drought that kicks off every year and ends in April with the Lyrids.
But, once in a while, we do hear from Southern Hemisphere dwellers who’ve seen a few Quadrantids!
Quadrantid meteor shower photos from the EarthSky community
Bottom line: The Quadrantid meteor shower in 2025 will peak late night on January 2 through dawn on January 3, in a moon-free sky. This shower has a narrow peak, lasting only hours.
**Peak times for meteor showers provided by Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society. Note that meteor shower predicted peaks may vary.
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Romelu Lukaku says he turned down a move to Manchester City in 2020, and only decided to swap Inter Milan for Chelsea when his request for a new contract in Italy was rejected this summer.
In a 29-minute interview with Sky in Italy recorded earlier in December, Lukaku said he was "not happy" with his situation at Chelsea, questioning Thomas Tuchel's system and talking up the prospect of returning to Inter while he is still playing at a "good enough level".
Tuchel conceded the comments are "not helpful" as they "bring noise that we don't need", but claimed the striker looks far from unsettled at Chelsea.
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In a second part of the interview released on Friday, Lukaku said he decided to stay in Italy last summer and would "100 per cent" still be there if the club granted him his wish of a new deal in the summer.
"When I was at Inter, at the end of the first year, I turned down an offer from Manchester City which was higher than Chelsea's this summer," Lukaku said.
"I did it because it had only been a year, it wasn't the right time to leave and I didn't want to. I wanted to do something good for Inter, because I have to say that Inter saved my career to some extent.
"I was in a deep hole at Manchester United, things weren't going well. I was a big investment for Inter but we did great things together.
"So the second year after we won the Scudetto, I went to speak with club chiefs and asked for a new contract. I did it because I told myself I'm 28 years old, my family feels great in Milan, I still have my flat there, my mother and my son could come and live there and we would all feel comfortable.
"But they didn't want to extend my contract, the possibility wasn't there. It was tough for me to accept, because in my head I told myself that I would be able to do a few more years in Milan."
"In my opinion, there are three absolute top teams in football - Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Every player dreams of playing for one of these teams one day. So I thought if I ever had that possibility, I would sign a new contract with Inter and then go there.
"But it didn't happen, so I told myself that there is only one team where I could possibly see myself - Chelsea. I wasn't thinking about going there, but at one point they came in for me and so I asked [Inter boss Simone] Inzaghi to leave.
"The fact that they didn't try to make me sign a new contract bothered me a bit, it hurt me even. If Inter offered me a new contract, I would have stayed 100 per cent. That goes without saying.
"Also the fact that I hadn't won anything in England in eight years there bothered me a lot. So it was hard to turn down the chance to come back here with the team I have supported since I was a child."
'Conte was my mentor, now a rival'
Lukaku has been vocal about his relationship with Antonio Conte and repeatedly stated how the Italian tactician helped him develop as a player
Now they are both in London, Lukaku says the motivation of proving himself to his former boss provides him with fresh motivation to succeed in England.
"I speak regularly with Conte, not just about football but life in general," Lukaku said.
"It hurt me when he left Inter, it was one of the toughest moments for me but I didn't leave because of him. I knew that we could still win things at Inter with Inzaghi.
"I think Conte at Spurs could do what he did at Inter in Serie A. But he also knows that our Chelsea team is really strong. I see him as an opponent in the league, I never won against him so that's an extra motivation for me.
"He was a massive influence on my career, he helped me so much on a mental level, he taught me how to be a professional and how to make sacrifices on and off the pitch to be ready for any challenge."
'Tuchel trying to find the right system'
In the second segment of the interview, Lukaku also expanded on his comments released on Thursday where he vented his frustration at his lack of game time up until early December.
The 28-year-old said Tuchel is trying to work him into the Chelsea starting line-up and conceded he needs to be patient to grasp his chance to cement his spot in the team.
"I think I'm in a moment where the boss could play me a little more but I have to respect his decisions, continue to work and wait for my time to come," he said.
"We're trying to find a middle ground where we can meet, a system which can help the team perform at its best because right now we're in a complicated situation.
"The boss made a choice, I have to keep working and at some point we will talk with Tuchel and see how it's going."
Analysis: Which change is Lukaku referring to?
Sky Sports' Gerard Brand
Lukaku's main gripe seems to be with a "different formation", but it's difficult to see which change the Belgian is referring to. When Lukaku joined Chelsea, Tuchel was immediately asked what this would mean for the 3-4-2-1 system that helped them back into the top four and to Champions League glory.
Tuchel said in August: "We now have the chance also to play with two strikers, like they did at Inter with [Lukaku], or to continue with three strikers. We will see now how this works out."
Was Lukaku promised a consistent strike partner in Timo Werner, someone to drop deep and do the dirty work while he worked the key areas in the penalty area and on the shoulder of the defender? For Inter, Lukaku had Lautaro Martinez or Alexis Sanchez beside him for practically the entire season, but for Chelsea that partnership role is unclear.
Lukaku and Werner have started only five times together this season, and only twice as a traditional front two. In the first of those two games, Lukaku and Werner were isolated in a 1-0 home defeat by Manchester City, and in the second they barely escaped Brentford with a 1-0 victory. Elsewhere, in Lukaku's absence, Werner has been given opportunities to find form, but hasn't grasped it, and Tuchel has more than often opted for a front three.
After returning from injury in late November, Lukaku was given only chunks of minutes - eight against Man Utd, 21 against Watford, 45 against West Ham and three against Leeds - opting to play a false nine in Kai Havertz on several occasions.
Tuchel will of course claim he has been protecting his £90m signing on his return from injury, but like any player, Lukaku wants to be on the pitch as much as possible. He said after the win at Villa on Boxing Day: "I think I needed a performance like this today, it has been difficult as every player wants to play. The manager has his reasons but I kept working hard."
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U.K. pay TV giant British Sky Broadcasting, or BSkyB, said early Thursday (London time) that it would change its name to Sky following the completion of the acquisitions of Sky Italia and a majority stake in Sky Deutschland late Wednesday.
It said the new name would “recognize the international scope of the business.” The name change is subject to shareholder approval at the company’s annual meeting on Nov. 21.
It also touted the combined company’s programming spending, saying it was now “Europe’s leading investor in television content” with a combined program budget of $7.3 billion (£4.6 billion) and “Europe’s leading entertainment company.”
Read more BSkyB CEO Discusses HBO Relationship, Netflix
It said the enlarged group will serve 20 million customers across five countries: Italy, Germany, Austria, the U.K. and Ireland. It will also be one of the largest employers in the sector, with 31,000 staff members across 30 main sites, according to the firm.
CEO Jeremy Darroch will oversee the enlarged group and also continue to lead the U.K. and Ireland business. BSkyB CFO Andrew Griffith will continue to oversee the financials of the merged group. The company also confirmed that Andrea Zappia would continue to lead Sky Italia as that business’ CEO, while Brian Sullivan would remain CEO of Sky Deutschland.
“By bringing together the three businesses, Sky will share strengths and expertise from across the group to serve customers better, accelerate innovation and grow faster,” the company said. “The new Sky will be built on a shared ethos of always pushing forward to provide customers with more choice, better content and a superior TV experience.”
Highlighting the potential for future growth, Sky said that more than 60 million households have yet to subscribe to pay TV across its five markets.
Read more BSkyB Grows Earnings, Subscribers in Latest Quarter
Said Darroch: “The three Sky businesses will be even better together. We have the opportunity to create a business that can lead and shape our industry in the future. Customers will benefit as we launch exciting new services, bring them even more great TV and accelerate innovation across all of the markets in which we operate.”
He added: “By joining together, we will share our strengths and expertise while retaining a strong identity in each country where we operate. The opportunity ahead is substantial, and we believe the new Sky will be good for customers, content creators and shareholders alike.”
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Sky Italia locks down exclusivity to its Uefa club rights
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Sky Italia has opted against opening up free-to-air coverage of Uefa club competitions in Italy next season via the on-sale of rights or on its own TV8 channel.
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The first step in a long history driven by speed and performance is marked by brothers Rudolf and Adolf Dassler who founded the company “Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik” (Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory) in their hometown Herzogenaurach, Germany. In doing so, the world capital of sport shoes is born.
The brothers start their factory in their parents’ home in 1919, moving into a proper facility in 1924. While there were other, smaller factories scattered throughout the town, many did not manage to survive past the 1950s and 60s.
In 1954, the first world record is held by a pair of PUMA running shoes. Heinz Fütterer matches the 100m world record in Yokohama, Japan with an amazing time of 10.2 seconds. In true PUMA Athlete fashion, he adds to the success four years later when he sets the world record in the 4x100m relay. This is a huge achievement for the young company.
Portuguese striker sensation and Ballon d'Or winner Eusébio is named top scorer in the 1966 World Cup in England while wearing PUMA football boots.
Honouring this accomplishment and Eusébio's continued fantastic form, PUMA introduces the legendary PUMA KING football boot in 1968.
In 1967, the puma takes its first leap across the upper right corner of the PUMA word logo as the world famous “No. 1 Logo” is created. Only minor changes have been made over the years: today, the eye and nuzzle are gone and the ears are more pronounced.
GRAND SLAM
PUMA’s tennis roster continues to grow. Martina Navrátilová, the most successful player of her time, establishes a record of 167 singles and 177 doubles tournaments titles. Among these wins, she achieves an Open Era record of 59 major titles won by a single player, and accomplishes a "Grand Slam Boxed Set" (Career Grand Slam in singles, doubles and mixed doubles) as she is the only player to hold the top spot in singles and doubles for over 200 weeks. Together with Guillermo Vilas and Boris Becker, the trio help PUMA to become one of the most popular brands in tennis.
YO SOY UN PUMA
Diego Armando Maradona goes down in history with his second goal against England in the quarter finals of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Starting from his own half, he passes six players including the goalkeeper, touches the ball eleven times with his PUMA KINGs and scores the "Goal of the Century".
DETERMINED CONFIDENCE
Jochen Zeitz is appointed CEO at the age of 30, becoming the youngest chairman in German history to lead a public company. During financial difficulties, Zeitz spearheads PUMA’s reconstruction and manages to turn it from a low-price brand into a premium sport-lifestyle company that is one of the top three brands in the sporting goods industry today.
EYES OF A CAT
In a press conference prior to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Linford Christie proves he is a true PUMA Athlete. Wearing contact lenses that overlay his pupils with the PUMA cat, he displays his spirit for all to see. The picture of Christie wearing the PUMA lenses spreads rapidly and is world famous ever since.
SPEEDING UP FASHION
The PUMA SPEEDCAT represents our long-standing connection to motorsports. Its design originated in 1998, when the fireproof version was created for Formula One drivers. Its innovative and elegant low-profile look and characteristically stitched cat logo, quickly turns the SPEEDCAT into a fashion classic.
Since then, PUMA has established as one of the top suppliers for racing gear and merchandise in Formula One.
WORLD CHAMPION ITALY
At the Football World Cup in Germany, PUMA sponsors more than any other supplier with 13 out of 32 teams. For the first time in the company’s history, a PUMA-sponsored team becomes the world champion as Italy beats France 5:3 after a penalty shoot-out. Wearing his trustworthy PUMA gloves, Italy’s goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon wins the Yashin-Award for “Best Goalkeeper of the Tournament”.
CHALLENGE CONVENTION
PUMA and artist Rihanna join forces as she becomes PUMA Women’s Creative Director and Ambassador.
Rihanna’s first collaboration with PUMA is an instant classic. Taking inspiration from the creeper sneaker silhouette that was popular in the punk era, the PUMA SUEDE is recreated with an extra thick sole and the PUMA CREEPER is born.
BACK TO THE HOOPS
After its absence for almost two decades, PUMA reintroduces the basketball category to its business portfolio. PUMA approaches basketball through a cultural lens by appointing entertainment and cultural icon Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z, as Creative Director for Basketball. Together, they place emphasis on how fashion, art and music elevate the world of basketball. PUMA presents its very first basketball silhouette after almost 20 years with the CLYDE COURT DISRUPT, paying homage to the original CLYDE.
BRAND CAMPAIGNS
PUMA launches SHE MOVES US, a communications platform where it celebrates women who move together to achieve and connect through sport, culture and values. Global superstar Dua Lipa and supermodel Winnie Harlow lead the campaign alongside several female athletes.
PUMA takes consumers into the minds of its athletes and ambassadors to spread a vision of hope, optimism and self-belief with its campaign ONLY SEE GREAT. Cultural icon, entrepreneur and philanthropist Jay-Z inspired the campaign with his words: “I only see great. I don’t see good. I don’t see compromise. We should always strive to make something great, something that will last."
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Over the last 75 years, PUMA has pushed sport and culture forward by creating fast products for the world’s fastest athletes. This year, PUMA celebrates 75 years of history in sports, culture and innovation with a series of events throughout the year which elaborate on its "FOREVER. FASTER." mantra.
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The weather has the power to impact a person’s state of mind. While a warm, sunny day would prompt you to go outside and get some fresh air, a hazy and wintry day would make you want to snuggle up in bed sipping on your coffee. Weather-inspired names such as baby names that mean sky or rain can be a great choice for your baby to celebrate the shades of nature. Here we have combined a list of names that are a perfect pick for your little one.
Weather Inspired Baby Names For Girls
1. Alizeh
Alizeh is a beautiful Persian name, meaning ‘wind.’ It is an attractive variation of the names- Eliza, Alissa, and even the French form Alizee. Geena Davis chose this Persian name for her daughter. Alizeh Imtiaz, Pakistani film director is a famous namesake.
2. Anemone
Anemone is a name derived from the Greek word anemos and means ‘wind’. In the Greek mythology, Anemone was the nymph who turned into a wildflower. It would make an interesting, and even challenging pick for parents who want an exotic weather inspired the name.
3. Aureole
This English name is derived from the word aureole, which is a diminutive form of the Latin name aura, which means ‘breeze or the wind’. Hence, Aureole means ‘little wind.’ We think Aureole would make a lovely substitute for the commonplace Ariel.
4. Amaya
This Spanish version of the name Amaia has been growing in popularity in the United States because of its similarity with Maya. Mariska Hargitay named her baby daughter Amaya Josephine. And, it’s associated with a Philippine television show as well.
5. Wendy
Wendy can also be considered as a variation of the wind for baby girls. Originally, this name was invented by Sir James Barrie in Peter Pan. This moniker’s heyday was in the 50s and 60s, but it still sounds cool today.
6. Audra
Audra is a Lithuanian name, meaning ‘storm.’ This name is used widely in Scotland as a variation of Audrey. Famous Broadway actress, Audra Ann McDonald, is a famous bearer of this name.
7. Breeze
Breeze is a lovely word name referring to the soft and smooth wind. Most people use Breeze as a middle name, but we think it would make a great first name as well. Even Levi Johnston used Breeze as a first name for his daughter.
8. Noelani
Noelani is a gorgeous Hawaiian name, meaning ‘heavenly mist.’ This exotic name would make a nice pick for girls born during Christmas for its ‘Noel’ beginning. Its modern namesake would be Noelani Pantastico, the American ballerina.
9. Indra
Indra is a Sanskrit name, meaning ‘possessing drops of rain.’ In Hindu religion, Indra is the warrior god of rain and sky and is used for boys in India. But in America, Indra makes a better female name. You can even spell this name Indre.
10. Aella
Aella is the Latin variant of the Greek name Aello and means ‘storm wind or whirlwind’. In the Greek mythology, Aela was the name of the Amazon warrior whom Herakles killed. She was renowned for carrying a double axe.
11. Rainbow
Rainbow is the colorful semi-circle that people see in the sky after a rainy day. This cheerful name was widely popular in the 60s with the hippies. Holly Maddison has also chosen this name for her baby. And it’s also associated with Rainbow Rowell, the American novelist.
12. Skye
This weather-inspired moniker, also referring to the Scottish Isle of Skye, brings the mighty sky down to earth. This spelling of sky is often used for girls than boys. It entered the baby girl name list in the year 1987, via Skye Chandler, a character in “All My Children”.
13. Rainn
Rain is a pure version of rain-related names. You can also select Rainn, Raine, Reine and Rayne. Rain would make an excellent middle name as well. Brooke Burke named her daughter Heaven Rain.
14. Makani
This Hawaiian name, meaning ‘wind’ was initially thought as a baby boy name, but it got a feminine lilt when Woody Harrelson chose it for his daughter. Mikey would make a cute nickname for Makani.
15. Scirocco
This is the most tantalizing name in the list. Scirocco is an Italian name derived from Arabic and means ‘warm wind.’ Volkswagen also named one of its car Scirocco. The alternate spelling of this name is Cirocco.
16. Summer
The sky is clearest during summer. So why not name your daughter after this season? This name began to be used in the 70s and has been heard consistently since then. This moniker has been featured on the big and small screen like “(500) Days of Summer”, “Baywatch” and “The Mentalist”. Summer is a soothing name preferred by parents who love the season. Faith Drew, a mother, says she named her child Summer because she was born in the summer season. She says, “My first child, Summer was born in the summer, and I just love names that are seasonal or have some sort of like seasonal meaning behind them (i).”
17. Coro
Cora
, the Native American name, meaning ‘wind’ is also a place name in Venezuela. This moniker would make an innovative pick for a baby of either sex, but we think it sounds slightly feminine.
18. Reva
Reva is a Hindi name, meaning ‘rain.’ It refers to one of the seven sacred rivers of India. Its namesake is Reva Shayne, a character on the American soap series “Guiding Light”.
19. Hurricane
This term for the storm has started being used for the baby name as well, all thanks to the tennis star Hurricane Black. You can use this tempestuous name for boys too. But it hasn’t been recorded as a baby boy name yet.
20. Rainey
Rainey, reminiscent of rainy, has an old-time country feel to it, perhaps because of Ma Rainey, who is fondly referred to as the “Mother of the Blues.” Andie MacDowell named his daughter Rainie, which gives us another option.
21. Tornado
If you want to give your little girl an attention-grabbing name, go with Tornado. You would be amazed to know it is the name of the sister of the tennis player star named Hurricane.
22. Tempest
Tempest is an evocative word name, meaning ‘stormy.’ It is famous, not just for being the title of one of the most memorable plays of Shakespeare, but also for its association with Tempestt Bledsoe, the American actress.
23. Varsha
Varsha is a Hindu name coming from the Sanskrit word for ‘rain’. This exotic name has a hint of the tropical monsoon, the time when rain restores the parched land and turns the dry fields to green.
24. Mistral
Le Mistral is the cold and strong cold wind spilling over the Alps and rushing across the Mediterranean Sea. This out-of-the-ordinary baby girl name would be a beneficial force to be reckoned with.
25. Talia
Talia, meaning ‘rain from heaven’ has been rising the popularity charts along with other Russian flavored names. It entered the top 300-baby name list for the first time in the year 2015.
26. Zephyrine
Zephyrine is the feminine variation of the Greek name Zephyr and means ‘west wind.’ Also considered a cousin to Seraphina and Severine, Zephyrine would make a distinct name for your daughter.
27. Alya
Alya is a lovely Arabic name, meaning ‘sky.’ This name is quite familiar in the United States in its slightly more complicated form Aliya. Besides, this established Muslim first name is also a Turkish place name.
28. Amaterasu
The name Amaterasu is inspired by the Japanese mythology and means ‘heaven and sky’. It belonged to the Japanese sun goddess, who was also the ruler of the heavens. The Japanese believe the royal family descended from her.
29. Araceli
Araceli is a melodic Spanish name and means ‘altar of the sky.’ It’s an epithet of Mother Mary in her role as a patron saint of Lucena. Araceli Segarra, a noted mountain climber, is its famous namesake.
30. Azure
The name Azure comes from an English word and means ‘sky blue.’ In the Middle Ages, Azure was another name for lapis lazuli. Azure Parsons, the American actress, is its most famous bearer.
31. Corentine
Corentine is the feminine variation of the name Corentin and means ‘tempest or storm.’ This name has never really been in the top 100 but is now on the upswing after a period of neglect.
32. Iris
Also belonging to a beautiful flower, Iris is the ancient Greek personification of the rainbow. This messenger of gods rode the rainbow as a bridge between earth and heaven.
33. Nephele
Nephele is an intriguing Greek nymph name that isn’t much heard in the modern world. Nephele was created from a cloud by Zeus, who later made her goddess of clouds.
34. Thora
Thora, the goddess of thunder and storm has a name that is much gentler and softer than its meaning. This moniker was publicized by the famous actress Thora Birch.
35. Aria
This female name, meaning ‘air’ is quickly moving up the charts and has even entered the top 100 baby name list, all thanks to “Game of Thrones.”
36. Esen
Esen is a Turkish name, meaning ‘the wind.’ It’s dramatic and windswept, and it would make an unique name for your daughter.
37. Haneul
Haneul is a Korean unisex name, meaning ‘sky.’ We think it would make a perfect pick for parents who want a name that bridges cultures.
38. Ilma
Ilma is a very popular nature-inspired name in Finland. Meaning ‘air,’ Ilma is also known as the Hungarian variation of the name Amelia.
39. Kalani
Kalani is a rhythmic name means ‘sky.’ Kalani Brooke Hilliker, the dancer on “Abby‘s Ultimate Dance Compition” and “Dance Moms,” is its popular bearer.
40. Miku
Miku is a Japanese name, meaning ‘beautiful sky.’
Weather Inspired Baby Names For Boys
1. Bayu
Bayu is an Indonesian name, meaning ‘wind.’ It does sound similar to Bayou since both are Indonesian baby name, but the meaning of both the monikers is different.
2. Hanish
Hanish Gilgamesh is a literary name, meaning ‘one who forewarns of storms.’ This moniker, inspired by the epic would make a challenging choice. So you can opt for its friendly version Hamish in such case.
3. Rai
Rai is a distinctive and intriguing name, meaning ‘storm.’ This hip name would sound better as a middle name than the first name. But it’s capable of standing as a first name as well.
4. Thor
Thor is the mighty name of the Norse god of storm, thunder, and strength. It was, for long considered a comic book stable, but now that it has invaded the big screen, it could soon land on the birth certificates as well.
5. Sky
Sky is a unisex weather inspired the baby name. This moniker was first legitimized through Sky Masterson, a character in “Guys and Dolls”. This moniker sounds less hippyish and wide-open feel than names like Starlight and Rainbow.
6. Storm
Storm is a straightforward name used widely for boys. This moniker is associated with Storm Thorgerson, the English graphic designer and Storm Large, the American singer.
7. Zephyr
Zephyr is a Greek name, meaning ‘west wind.’ In the Greek mythology, Zephyrus was the Greek god of west wind. All the names associated with it have a gentle and breezy feel to it, including Zephyr.
8. Naseem
Naseem or Nasim is a traditional Arabic name, meaning ‘breeze or soft air.’ While it’s a quintessential male name, some females have also used this name in the past, including Nasim Pedrad, the Iranian-American actress.
9. Guthrie
Guthrie is a Scottish name, meaning ‘windy spot.’ This moniker has a windswept and romantic aura to it. Guthrie McClintic, a major figure in the Broadway theatre world of the 20th century is a famous namesake.
10. Wyndham
Wyndham is an evocative English name, meaning ‘from the windy village. Wyndham Lewis, the English painter, and novelist, is its famous namesake.
11. Adad
Adad is the Akkadian name of the Assyrian-Babylonian god of storm and thunder. The literal meaning of the name is ‘thunder’, which often comes along with the storm.
12. Cloud
Just like Sunshine and Sky, even this fluffy name from the hippie era has started floating onto the baby name radar. Peter Blue Cloud, the Native American Poet, is its famous namesake.
13. Tal
Tal is a short and sweet Hebrew name, meaning ‘dew or rain.’ It is mostly used in conjunction with others like Tal-Or or Tal-El. The best part of this name is that you do not even need to shorten it for the nickname.
14. Stormy
Your tiny whirlwind would make a perfect candidate for this name. This commanding name hints at a strong and forceful personality. After disrupting the day with rain, wind and thunder, the storm clears the air, promising the beauty of the rainbow.
15. Sunny
The name Sunny exudes the warmth and the clear sky of the summer. This bright and cheerful name predicts a bright and friendly personality. You can even opt for its variation Soleil.
16. Anil
If you have a love for the Sanskrit language and Hindu mythology or want to honor the Indian heritage, name him Anil, which means ‘air and the wind’.
17. Skyler
Even though Skyler means ‘scholar,’ it could also be used to refer to the sky. This name has appeared in a plenty of television shows and movies. And it’s the name of a singer of LMFAO band.
18. Gale
Gale, a name that refers to the sea storm would make a nice name for your son. It was the name of Liam Hemsworth’s character in “The Hunger Games”. Its popular bearer is Gale Hansen, the American actor who played the character Charlie Dalton in “Dead Poets Society.”
19. Raiden
Raiden means ‘thunder and lightning,’ which accompanies a heavy rainfall. Even though it belongs to the Japanese God of thunder, this moniker feels at home in the Western world as well.
20. Dalfon
Dalfon is a Hebrew name, meaning ‘raindrop.’ You won’t hear this name much in every playground as it’s very rare. This moniker would work smoothly with almost any surname.
21. Neil
Neil is an Irish name, meaning ‘’cloud’. This top selling name peaked in the 50s, and then fell out of favor. It enjoyed a second coming when Neil Armstrong appeared in the spotlight.
22. Anvindr
Anvindr is an Old Norse name composed of the elements ‘an’ which means ‘against’ and ‘vindr,’ which means the wind. Hence, the name Anvindr means ‘against the wind.’
23. Ermir
Ermir is an Albanian baby name, meaning ‘good wind.’ It’s a variation of the name Erjon and means the same. But it definitely sounds cooler than the original.
24. Govad
Here’s a short, evocative and neat name for you breezy boy. The name Govad belongs to one of the 23 Hamkar archangels and means ‘good wind’. Even the special domain of Govad was wind and waves.
25. Freyr
Freyr is an Old Norse name coming from the word ‘fraujar’, and means ‘lord master.’ In the Norse mythology, Freyr is the name of the god of rain and sunlight.
26. Zeru
Zeru is a Basque name, meaning ‘sky.’ This name is an exotic spin on the nature name and was a huge hit with the hippies. But its connection with zero might get some teasing.
27. Eyvindr
Eyvindr is an Old Norse name composed of the elements ‘ey’, which means ‘island’ and ‘vindr,’ which means ‘wind. The meaning of Eyvindr is ‘island wind’.
28. Hadad
Hadad is the Syrian name of the God of rain and storms. The literal meaning of Hadad is ‘thunder’.
29. Keyne
Keyne is a Celtic name, meaning ‘man of the eastern sky.’ The spelling of this name is unusual enough to make your son stand out from the crowd. The English meaning of this name is ‘warrior’, which is another positive reference.
30. Harendra
Harendra is a Punjabi name composed of the Sanskrit name Hari, which means ‘he who takes away’ and Indra, which means ‘possesses a drop of rain.’ Its alternate spelling is Harinder.
31. Lokni
If you do not mind experimenting with your child’s name, go with Lokni, the Native American name. It means ‘rain falling through the roof.’
32. Yuki
Yoki is an appealing Asian name, meaning ‘snow storm’ best used for boys born in December. Its namesakes are Yuki Bhambri, the Indian tennis player, and Yuki Kajiura, the Japanese composer of music for the anime series.
33. Palinouros
Palinouros is a Greek name composed of the elements ‘palin’, which means ‘back or new’ and ouros, which means ‘storm or the wind’. Hence, the meaning of Palinouros is ‘contrary wind’. In Greek mythology, Palinouros was the name the pilot of Aeneas’s boat.
34. Anan
This Old Testament name means ‘cloud’ in the Hebrew language. It would make an interesting name for parents looking for unique, yet solid name.
35. Akash
Akash is a Hindu name, meaning ‘sky.’ This name rose to its highest ranking in the 90s, following the release of several Bollywood movies featuring this name.
36. Ramiel
In the Islamic and Christian religion, Ramiel is the name of a Watcher and means ‘Thunder of God.’ He is one of the seven archangels mentioned in the Book of Enoch.
37. Ramman
Ramma is the Akkadian name of the Assyrian-Babylonian god of storm and thunder. In Hindi, the meaning of Ramman is ‘merriment’.
38. Tlaloc
Tlaloc is a Nahuatl name, meaning ‘of the earth.’ But in the Aztec mythology, Tlaloc is the god of rain. We feel Tlaloc would definitely make a handsome first.
39. Corentin
Corentin is a Breton name, meaning ‘storm. This name was practically unknown in the United States, but has been trendy in European countries, especially France for several years. In fact, this name reached the top 25 list in the late 90s.
40. Enlil
Enlil comes from the Sumerian word ‘en-lil’ and means ‘lord of the wind.’ In the Sumerian mythology, Enlil, the son of Ki and An, is the God of storms and wind.
41. Wayra
Wayra is a Naïve American name, meaning ‘wind.’
42. Zeferino
Zeferino is the Portuguese form of the name Zephyrinus and means ‘west wind.’
43. Zeus
Zeus, the name of the Greek god, has a name that probably means ‘sky.’ In the Greek mythology, Zeus is the highest of the gods. He ruled the earth and humankind from the top of the Mount Olympus.
44. Souta
Souta is a Japanese name, meaning ‘sudden sound of wind.’ This name is usually formed in conjunction with kanji combinations.
45. Van
Van is a Vietnamese name, meaning ‘cloud’.
Would you choose a weather-inspired name for your baby? Share your views with us in the comment section below!
Sky, air, wind, cloud, and rain are diverse natural elements that fascinate almost everyone. Naming your baby after these elements can strengthen their indomitable connection with nature and give them a beautiful name for life. Since finding such a name can be tricky, this list of baby names that means sky can help. These sweet, simple, yet unique names have deep meanings that will resonate with your baby’s innocence. So choose a beautiful name for babies that they will always love to carry with them.
Discover More Names
When you have to choose a name for your baby, a few hundreds of names may not be just enough. Keep digging our mine of baby names until you find that one precious gem.
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Located off the Bay of Naples, the island sits like a generous dollop of volcanic rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea and has bewitched visitors for centuries.
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The mystical, magical island of Capri has bewitched visitors for centuries. Located off the Bay of Naples, the island sits like a generous dollop of volcanic rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Small, steep, and cliff-laden, the landscape allows visitors to feel as though they’re suspended between two blue ethers—a sparkling sea of cobalt and an endless sky. As for the terrain, it’s blanketed with Mediterranean shrubs, blooming Broom flowers, Bougainvillea, and lemon trees. The citrus has become something of a motif of the island; lemon stands, lemon granitas, limoncello, and lemon-printed fashions abound on Capri.
The island’s allure is well-documented and somewhat subversive. In Homer’s Odyssey, the nearby waters were inhabited by the Sirens, who beckoned sailors to their deaths. The second Roman emperor, Tiberius Caesar Augustus, is remembered for fleeing Rome for Capri, where he built palaces and infrastructure but also shirked his responsibilities and infamously took up wildly hedonistic and grotesque pursuits. And in Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt, Brigette Bardot’s character, departing the Capris’ architectural marvel Casa Malaparte (also where Jacquemus hosted his 15th-anniversary runway show in celebration of his Capri boutique opening this past June), meets an untimely fate.
But on your visit, you’re more likely to experience la dolce vita. References to this are just as plentiful. Think of Jackie Kennedy Onassis on the island wearing, yes, capri pants. Then there’s the Capri-rich oeuvre of Slim Aarons; his photo of the sunbathing beauties stacked poolside in the Le Corbusier-inspired Punta Tragara comes to mind. And for the fashion set, there’s model Bianca Balti in a white bikini, bobbing in a boat near the arched Faraglioni rock formations in Dolce & Gabbana’s memorable commercials for the fragrance light blue. No matter what image you have in your mind's eye, Capri is one of the few destinations where reality exceeds expectations.
On the island, layers of history are embedded within the craggy limestone rock foundations. Roman ruins, 19th-century holiday homes, Medieval stone footbaths, and modern-day megayachts all dazzlingly co-exist together; the island’s natural beauty is amplified by the effortless sprezzatura of the habitués. Here, you feel as though you’re sampling a taste of a bygone jet-set holiday—Mr. Ripley was nearby in Positano, after all. The dress code is as understated as a white linen button-up. The cuisine is perfectly simplistic—fish filets with a squeeze of lemon. And the moments are unrushed. As you whiz around the island in an open-air taxi with a canvas canopy, you’ll feel transported in more ways than one. A day spent bobbing in the sea, so salty it’ll leave crystals on your skin, melds into a viewing of the sunset, which will ignite the sky and give you the impression that, off in the distance, Ischia is simmering.
A journey to Capri likely starts at Naples, where about an hour-long boat ride will take you to one of two ports, Marina Grande (serving ferries) and Marina Piccola (serving yachts and boats). There are also two main towns on the island: Capri and Anacapri. Note that the narrow, serpentine streets of “downtown” Capri don’t accommodate cars, so you’ll have to plan ahead to get your luggage to your destination. Your hotel will be able to facilitate a port-to-hotel transfer and if you’re staying somewhere without a concierge, the city operates a luggage porter system. All these and more tips for Capri, below.
Where to Stay
Within a few moments spent on Capri, you’ll learn it’s all about the views—some of the best to be found are at Hotel Luna. Family-operated, the hotel, which is about a 10-minute walk from Capri’s Piazzetta, is perched on a bluff that offers awe-inspiring views of the Faraglioni rock formations. Most rooms, which are outfitted with glossy painted tiles evocative of Capri, offer a sea vista, and there is also a rooftop restaurant, the Capri Rooftop Lounge Bar, which picks up after the sun sets. Family-friendly, the hotel’s second greatest attraction is its pool—Olympic size with sea and garden views. Spend the day poolside where you can have a proper alfresco lunch at the hotel’s second restaurant.
Address: Viale Giacomo Matteotti, 3, 80073 Capri NA, Italy
Located in Anacapri, Capri Palace Jumeirah can be found at the base of Mount Solaro. It’s one of the island’s more impressive hotels, equipped with a serious spa and two Michelin stars. The approach to the hotel features a vine-covered walkway and once you arrive, you’ll find yourself on a terrace offering views of nearby Ischia. Rooms are done up in a very Capri color scheme of blue and white—milky ceramic tiles feature blue motifs, and blanched white linen upholstery adds a crispness. Don’t miss the celebrated L’Olivo restaurant and the bar, which is home to a video installation by the artist Fabrizio Plessi that glows in a color inspired by the island’s famed Blue Grotto. Off-site, the Capri Palace Jumeirah also operates Il Riccio, a nearby, bustling beach club (more on that below) that you shouldn’t miss.
Address: Via Capodimonte, 14, 80071 Isola di Capri, NA, Italy
If heaven is a place on earth, it's Caesar Augustus. Located in Anacapri, the hotel is about as good as it gets. Built in 1850, the property was originally known as Villa Bitter, the holiday home of a German gentleman. Today, the Victorian villa vibes remain; guests will feel more like a guest of a stately home than a hotel. With 49 beautiful bedrooms and 6 suites, the Caesar Augustus’s allure lies in its situation—on a cliff that gives the impression of being suspended over the sea. Painted a lovely pale yellow, the villa is known for its white and yellow-striped awnings and a terrace lined with classical sculptures perched atop a balustrade rail. Keeping watch is a statue of Caesar Augustus (not his step-son Tiberius); a photo here is almost required.
Address: Via Giuseppe Orlandi, 4, 80071 Anacapri NA, Italy
The grand dame hotel of Capri is undoubtedly the Hotel Quisisana. If you’re looking for a place to see and be seen, look no further. Situated in a lively part of old town Capri, the street-side patio of the Quisisana is home to a restaurant that is never not bustling during high season. By day, breakfast and lunch are served; as the day goes on, aperitivo becomes dinner, and then it’s more cocktails and quite a lively atmosphere well into the night. Inside, rooms offer views of the Faraglioni, or the heart of town. Originally built as a sanatorium in 1845 by a British doctor, the Quisisana, which translates to "here one heals" is sure to offer you the respite you need.
Address: Via Camerelle, 2, 80073 Capri NA, Italy
Opened just under a year ago, Il Capri Hotel is the brainchild of Graziella Buontempo and Arnaud Lacombe, the pair behind the Parisian Savoir Vivre Group. The property, conveniently located steps from Capri's main piazzetta, is perfect for travelers seeking less of a grand dame hotel experience and more of a boutique, youthful-feeling stay. Set inside a converted neo-Gothic Venetian-style 19th-century palazzo, the 21-room hotel’s main draw is its pool patio deck, which opens up to the coveted views of the Tyrrhenian Sea and is dotted with red and white striped parasols. Onsite, there’s also the not-to-miss restaurant Vesuvio, serving up pasta and gelato.
Address: Via Roma 71, 80073 Capri, Italy
Beach Clubs
Opened in 1949, La Fontelina began as a humble beach shack eatery but it didn’t take long for the jet set to discover it in the ’60s. To access La Fontelina, you’ll have to take a long flight of stairs starting near the Punta Tragara hotel. Don’t underestimate the journey and come with practical shoes. The destination will be worth it. Instead of sand, there are slabs of limestone and the famous blue-and-white striped beach chairs to lounge in. Today, a trip to La Fontelina, which always includes lunch, is a Capri must. Like all beach clubs here, reservations are required—and book up quickly.
Address: Via dei Faraglioni, 2, 80073 Capri NA, Italy
On that same staircase down to La Fontelina, you’ll find Da Luigi. Another equally scenic beach club, Da Luigi is situated near one of the three formations that make up the Faraglioni. The place bills itself as Capri's de facto living room. Since its opening in the 1960s, it’s been a place for relaxation and respite beneath the sun.
Address: Via dei Faraglioni, 5, 80073 Capri NA, Italy
Over in Anacapri, Lido del Faro is a beach club set beneath the Punta Carena lighthouse. Here, fewer tourists flock but the experience is no less remarkable. There’s a restaurant with perfect views and fare, and for when the waves are too rough, which often happens, there’s a saltwater pool for swimming.
Address: Anacapri, Str. Faro di Carena, 80071 Anacapri NA, Italy
The fashion set is known to flock to Il Riccio, the beach club that hovers over the sea. It’s most recently been the host of a Dior pop-up but even without such programming, the space is not to be missed. Come here to lounge on a daybed (access to the water is limited) and lunch at the restaurant which offers sweeping water views.
Address: Via Gradola, 4, 80071 Anacapri NA, Italy
Where to Eat
You’ve probably already seen photos of Da Paolino without even knowing it. Located above Marina Grande and situated in a lemon tree-filled garden, Da Paolino is a must-go. To dine here is to dine beneath a canopy of citrus (nets catch falling fruits). Order a Caprese, the island’s eponymous salad, and the lemon spaghetti. And no meal here is complete without a bit of limoncello.
Address: Via Palazzo a Mare, 11, 80076 Capri NA, Italy
For a more rustic meal, head to the family-run pizzeria Le Grottelle. As its name suggests, the restaurant is comprised of nooks and crannies carved out of the rock face. Meals are cooked on an outdoor grill and the dining terrace looks out onto Campanella point.
Address: Via Arco Naturale, 13, 80073 Capri NA, Italy
For dinner with a side of nightlife, head to Villa Verde. Located in old town Capri, the white table-clothed restaurant is great for big groups and big nights out. Seafood is their specialty but the entire menu won't leave you disappointed.
Address: Via Sella Orta, 6, 80073 Capri NA, Italy
Capri’s dining scene is famously and delightfully relaxed but when you want something more distinguished, L’Olivo is the best choice. Helmed by chef Andrea Migliaccio, who hails from nearby Ischia, the restaurant boasts two Michelin stars. Set within the Anacapri’s Capri Palace Jumeirah, the restaurant’s signature dish is the lemon-scented homemade tagliolini pasta with burrata cheese, red prawns, and sea asparagus.
Address: Via Capodimonte, 14, 80071 Anacapri NA, Italy
What to See
When he died, the Swedish physician and author Axel Munthe left behind a legacy as a healer as well as a reputation for generosity—he would treat impoverished patients without charge. He would also leave behind Villa San Michele, his home and garden in Anacapri which has been lauded as one of the most beautiful in Italy. With impressive horticultural knowledge, Munthe filled his gardens with rare and exotic flora. Today, Villa San Michele is a destination for tourists curious to see the idyll Munthe once inhabited.
Address: Via Axel Munthe, 34, 80071 Anacapri NA, Italy
Rent a Boat
Though you’ll arrive by boat, a trip to Capri isn’t complete without a more private boat ride tour. From here, you’ll be able to get close to Casa Malaparte (the Italian Modern masterpiece built in the late 1930s after Adalberto Libera’s designs), which is otherwise closed to the public. Gianni’s Boat service is a local favorite but note that the blue grotto is only accessible by smaller row boat.
Those with a fear of heights might want to skip this recommendation, but otherwise, a trip to Monte Solaro, the highest point of Capri, shouldn’t be missed. Take a chair lift—a skimpy open-air vessel that sits one person per lift—from Anacapri, around the corner from the Capri Palace Jumeirah, which will transport you to the incredible views and an old 19th-century fort and gardens. A windy day might have you clutching your pearls but the ascent is also half the fun.
Address: Near Piazza Vittoria, Anacapri
A short walk from the center of old town Capri will lead you to a botanical garden you could easily spend the afternoon enjoying. Comprising a series of terraces overlooking the sea, the gardens teem with local vegetation and geraniums, dahlias, and broom flowers. Here, a 180-degree panoramic vista of the island is also available; as is a view of the Faraglioni and a view of the serpentine footpath of Via Krupp.
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The trend is also negative in the first months of 2023 but the company does not expect to generate further losses and will not ask shareholders for help. Also for this year the accounts are in the red but improving. With Comcast's operation the net assets of Sky Italia dropped to 888 million euros. Losses for 7 are mainly linked to investments and depreciation but Sky will continue to invest also in 2023 as demonstrated by theacquisition of TV rights of Champions League for the next three years.
Sky: 2022 data
In 2022 Sky recorded revenues for 2,12 billion euros, down from 2,67 billion in 2021. TheEBITDA is negative by 334 million euros, an improvement of 103 million compared to -438 million in 2021. The audiovisual content generated revenues of 1,95 billion euros. THE skyrocketing production costs. they amount to 2,18 billion (last year they were 2,82 billion). The decrease is due to the reduction in costs for Serie A TV rights, partially offset by higher costs for network access. THE TV rights costs amounted to 929,8 million euros. Labor costs are at 235 million euros (-4%), while depreciation and amortization are growing: 388 million, + 15,1% on 2021.
Sky Italian holdings, the parent company of Sky Italia, closed the 2022 financial statements with a loss of 804 million euros due to the write-down of the stake held in Sky Italia.
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Weird lights appear in the sky way more often than most people realize. Often, photos of these bizarre light shows come with wild speculation about what caused them, from aliens to secret military weapons.
But unfortunately for conspiracy theorists, there is always a more Earthly scientific explanation for these luminous displays. From UFO-like rings to blood-red arcs, here are 10 bizarre atmospheric light shows with a surprisingly simple explanation.
Eerie UFO-like ring
This bizarre disk of red light appeared to briefly flash above the town of Possagno in northern Italy, hanging in the sky for just a few milliseconds before abruptly vanishing.
The fluorescent frisbee is known as an "emission of light and very low-frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources," or elve It's an atmospheric disturbance created when lightning produces an electromagnetic pulse that hits Earth's ionosphere — the ionized part of the upper atmosphere that stretches between 50 and 400 miles (80 and 650 kilometers) above the ground. The red color is given off by excited nitrogen atoms in the ionosphere.
This luminous halo appeared during an intense thunderstorm around 175 miles (280 km) southeast of Possagno. But forced perspective made the massive ring, which had a diameter of around 225 miles (360 km), seemingly hang above the town.
Light arcs and halos
This photo, which was captured by an astronomer at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, shows a spectacular set of luminous arcs and halos shining around the sun.
Ethereal lights like these are created by sunlight shining through millions of tiny, perfectly positioned ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The miniature hexagonal crystals refract light similarly to a prism, and when strong winds orient them in the same direction, the light they warp combines to produce lines of light.
The image shows at least three different optical phenomena: a 22-degree halo, which is the large circle surrounding the sun; a pair of "sundogs" — the bright points on each side of the 22-degree halo; and a complete parhelic circle — the line that bisects the circle — which is the rarest of this type of phenomenon. The image may also include features of a circumscribed halo and a supralateral arc, which form the "eyelids" above and below the 22-degree halo.
Individually, all these phenomena can be relatively common, but seeing them all together at once is extremely rare.
Bizarre blue blobs
An astronaut on board the International Space Station (ISS) snapped this image of two bizarre blue blobs of light glimmering in our planet's atmosphere. Intriguingly, the two blobs are completely unrelated to one another and just happened to occur at the same time.
The light blob at the bottom of the image,is a massive lightning strike that occurred next to a large, circular gap in the top of the clouds. This caused the lightning to illuminate the surrounding walls of the cloudy caldera-like structure, creating a striking luminous ring.
The blue blob in the top right of the image is the result of warped light from the moon. The moon's orientation in relation to the ISS meant the light it reflected back from the sun passed through the planet's atmosphere, transforming it into a bright blue blob with a fuzzy halo.
Ethereal whirlpool of light
This ethereal whirlpool of blue light appeared in the night sky above Alaska, briefly stealing the limelight from a strong auroral display. But the bizarre, spiral-shaped object had nothing to do with the dancing polar lights.
The luminous spiral was made from frozen rocket fuel that was ejected by the fast-spinning, detached second stage of one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets. Due to its high altitude, the frozen fuel reflected sunlight back to Earth, making it stand out in the night sky. Lights like these can last for several minutes before the frozen fuel crystals disperse.
A similar spiral was also filmed forming and then disappearing in the night sky above Hawaii. Astronomers have nicknamed the swirling light "SpaceX spirals" and believe they will become more common as the number of SpaceX launches increases.
Blood-red arc
A bright red streak of light appeared in the sky above parts of Scandinavia after a powerful solar storm slammed into Earth. But the bright red band was not an aurora — it was something much rarer.
The unusual phenomenon is known as a stable auroral red arc (SAR) — but despite the name, it is neither an aurora nor particularly stable. Unlike auroras, which appear when solar radiation excites gas molecules in the upper atmosphere, SARs form when atmospheric gas is superheated by Earth's ring current system — a massive loop of electric current that surrounds our planet. Both phenomena become more likely after solar storms weaken Earth's magnetosphere.
For unknown reasons, only oxygen is heated up during a SAR, which means these phenomena always emit the same shade of red.
Rainbow clouds
These multicolored clouds were spotted shining in the night sky above the Arctic.
The clouds, known as polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), only form in the stratosphere — the second layer of Earth's atmosphere — at temperatures below minus 114 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 81 degrees Celsius). Normally, the stratosphere is too dry for clouds to form, but at extremely low temperatures, widely spaced water molecules begin to coalesce into tiny ice crystals that become clouds.
As sunlight shines through these crystal clouds, it gets scattered, creating multiple different wavelengths of light, which gives the clouds their rainbow colors. Due to the extreme altitude of the clouds, sunlight can hit the crystals and scatter above an observer even if the sun is beyond the horizon, which is when these clouds appear brightest.
Bright green laser lines
This image, which was captured by a telescope on Hawaii's tallest peak, Mauna Kea, shows bright green laser lines flashing across the night sky.
The lines, which appeared one after the other, only lasted for around a second. But they inspired online comparisons with "digital rain," or the lines of green computer code that fall vertically down the screen during the "Matrix" movies.
But these lines aren't evidence we are living in the matrix. Instead, they came from lasers fired from NASA's ICESat-2 satellite, which measures the amount of ice in Earth's cryosphere — the part of Earth covered by solid precipitation, including snow, sea ice, lake and river ice, icebergs, glaciers, ice sheets and ice shelves.
Stunning STEVE
This bizarre, aurora-like streak of light, known as STEVE, was spotted across several U.S. states in the wake of a major solar storm in early 2023.
STEVE, or a "strong thermal emission velocity enhancement," is a rare phenomenon that creates a solid ribbon of light that hangs in the air for up to an hour. The ribbon is created by a river of hot plasma, or ionized gas, that breaks through Earth's weakened magnetosphere during solar storms. The flow of plasma is uniform and constant, which means the same gas remains excited and continuously gives off the same light.
STEVE can occur much further away from Earth's poles than auroras tend to appear, although scientists are still unsure why.
Shining rainbow rings
Something was in the air when this image of concentric rainbow-colored rings was snapped in Finland. And it turns out that something was pollen.
Multicolored rings such as these, known as "pollen coronas," form when sunlight scatters off thousands of pollen grains in the air. This creates a diffraction pattern, in which individual wavelengths of light cancel each other out and only allow certain colors to be seen by the observer. Individual grains are also illuminated and appear as bright spots in the image.
The pollen in the image comes from pine trees (Pinus sylvestris), which have air sacs that help them float (as well as making them look like Mickey Mouse ears).
Pollen coronas only appear when pollen concentrations are very high and can only be clearly seen when the sun or full moon is partially obscured.
Bleeding sky
A blood-red streak of light was left behind in the sky above Arizona after one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets punched a hole in Earth's ionosphere.
"Ionospheric holes" are created when a rocket's second stage burns fuel between 125 and 185 miles (200 and 300 km) above Earth's surface. At this height, the carbon dioxide and water vapor from the rocket's exhaust cause ionized oxygen atoms to recombine or form back into diatomic oxygen molecules, creating a gap in the plasma. This also excites the molecules and causes them to emit energy in the form of light.
Scientists have known about ionospheric holes for a while, but they are becoming more common as the number of rocket launches increases. The holes pose no threat to people on the surface, and they naturally close up within a few hours as the recombined gases get re-ionized.
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5 reasons to DUST YOURSELF OFF TODAY 👇 👇 👇 If you say that someone has dusted himself or herself off or dusted himself or herself down, you mean that they have managed to recover from a severe problem which has affected their life. This guy fell over on the way to the stage - ouch! Did he sit and cry at the embarrassment ? No, he 'dusted himself off' and made the best of it. Here are 5 great reasons for you to DUST YOURSELF OFF TODAY : 🍒 TAKE CONTROL There is a Japanese proverb that says, “fall seven times, stand up eight”. As hard as it can be to rally yourself when you feel as though you’ve failed, it’s important to remember that your failures don’t define you. Those seven times you’ve fallen are not what makes up your character--it’s the fact that you stood up again that makes you who you are. LIKE THE MAN IN THE VIDEO ❤️❤️❤️ 🍒 BE GRATEFUL It can be really difficult to remember just how good you really have it. If you’re reading this, you likely have access to resources and tools that much of the world does not. This doesn’t mean that your suffering is meaningless or silly, just that you already have a lot to be thankful for. Try to look at the big picture of your world and not just the failure you are focusing on - over all I bet you have it good and you need to remember that 🔥 🔥 🔥 🍒 THE POWER OF NOW Read this book by Ekhart Tolle. He teaches that feeling terrible is due to regretting the past or fearing the future. If you focus on what you are doing right now, those things are impossible. So, read the book and stick to the here and now and you will understand it's power 🌈🌈🌈 🍒 FLIP YOUR VIEW Albert Einstein said that, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Maybe you’ve failed at something because you’re a fish trying to climb a tree. Maybe you’ve failed for a greater purpose, or maybe this failure is showing you where you need to change. Look at it differently and maybe failure is actually what you need, what is right, what will ultimately make you 🚀🚀🚀 🍒 ACCEPT IT Sometimes you fail, sometimes you don't get what you want, sometimes it's not all roses - true? Once you accept that you cannot have the ups without the downs, you realise that, "this too shall pass". When bad stuff happens to me, I like to 'lick my wounds' for a while and then, like the brilliant footballer, Harry Kane, I 'GO AGAIN'. Do this too - YES, YOU 🙏 🙏 🙏 Wow, I have given my all to this little piece on 'dusting yourself off'. I hope that I have not failed in my goal to help one person 😀 😀 😀 Have a blessed day and help someone today too !!! 🍒 Peace 🙏 and Love ❤️x #love #help #change #grateful #inpspiration #motivation #Caboom 🚀🚀🚀
Life. One moment you’re in your small room in Ikorodu struggling with hunger pangs and wondering if you’ll make it through the day. 2 years down the line you’re speaking at Oxford University and sharing your ideas in a room with some of the most brilliant minds in the world. It is said that there are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. In the stillness of those decades when nothing happens, learn,unlearn and build immense capacity. So when your decades in a week happens, you will be ready for it. One day the spotlight will find you, and you’ll get a chance to prove your mettle and show the world what you’re truly made of. Until then,never lose sight of who you are and the light you carry within, for it is this light that will illuminate your path and guide you when your moment in the spotlight arrives. Keep going Dreamer. I hope you never stop giving the world something new to believe in.
I’m 25 with 2 businesses and no home. All of this ‘happened’ in the last year. But it certainly wasn’t overnight. Here’s how I got here: Age 0-15: Raised by an incredible single mother who wore both hats. Gave everything to support me. Age 16: First job stacking shelves at Booths (a supermarket). Completed high school with bang-average grades. Started sixth form college. Age 17: Quit sixth form college after 3 months due to illness. Doctor said I was 24 hours away from dying of Septicemia. Spent my 17th birthday in hospital. Then became an apprentice at a print marketing agency. Learnt my way around Adobe’s design suite. Started doing bits of design work on the side with clients from outreach. Age 18-19: Discovered search marketing to help get more clients for the print marketing agency. Became obsessed with SEO. Spent most of my free time messing around with websites I built. Age 20: Wanted to take marketing more seriously. Quit my job to start a marketing degree. Quit after 2 weeks. Started an apprenticeship for an SEO agency where I managed 25 clients. This was alongside college I started 6 months later. Quit after 3 months. Realised traditional education systems suck. I learnt 100x more (and quicker) through self-education. Went all-in on learning and building whilst living at home with my mother and 2 young siblings. £0 income. Age 21: Got my first 2 freelancing clients on Upwork. They referred me to other clients. Hit £10K/mo by the end of the year. Age 22-23: Started a podcast side project and quickly reached 300K listeners per month. Sold it for 5 figures. Bought and sold 5 websites. Maxed out freelancing service at £15K/mo. Age 24: Founded Content Growth and built a team to help companies turn their blog into a 6 figure sales channel. Started posting on LinkedIn and increased revenue by 166% in 5 months. Age 25: Co-founded Byword; software that generates articles at scale for SEO. Sold everything and moved to Medellin, Colombia. Scaling both companies to 7 figures in ARR. Closing in on 100K total audience. I don’t think my journey is at all special. But there are some key themes: - Continuously learning and testing - Knowing when to quit and taking risks - Always improving relationships and networking My goal is to continue levelling up, exploring, meeting incredible people, achieving more freedom, and helping family and friends along the way. Because I believe that's why we're on this planet. What say you?
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5 reasons to DUST YOURSELF OFF TODAY 👇 👇 👇 If you say that someone has dusted himself or herself off or dusted himself or herself down, you mean that they have managed to recover from a severe problem which has affected their life. This guy fell over on the way to the stage - ouch! Did he sit and cry at the embarrassment ? No, he 'dusted himself off' and made the best of it. Here are 5 great reasons for you to DUST YOURSELF OFF TODAY : 🍒 TAKE CONTROL There is a Japanese proverb that says, “fall seven times, stand up eight”. As hard as it can be to rally yourself when you feel as though you’ve failed, it’s important to remember that your failures don’t define you. Those seven times you’ve fallen are not what makes up your character--it’s the fact that you stood up again that makes you who you are. LIKE THE MAN IN THE VIDEO ❤️❤️❤️ 🍒 BE GRATEFUL It can be really difficult to remember just how good you really have it. If you’re reading this, you likely have access to resources and tools that much of the world does not. This doesn’t mean that your suffering is meaningless or silly, just that you already have a lot to be thankful for. Try to look at the big picture of your world and not just the failure you are focusing on - over all I bet you have it good and you need to remember that 🔥 🔥 🔥 🍒 THE POWER OF NOW Read this book by Ekhart Tolle. He teaches that feeling terrible is due to regretting the past or fearing the future. If you focus on what you are doing right now, those things are impossible. So, read the book and stick to the here and now and you will understand it's power 🌈🌈🌈 🍒 FLIP YOUR VIEW Albert Einstein said that, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Maybe you’ve failed at something because you’re a fish trying to climb a tree. Maybe you’ve failed for a greater purpose, or maybe this failure is showing you where you need to change. Look at it differently and maybe failure is actually what you need, what is right, what will ultimately make you 🚀🚀🚀 🍒 ACCEPT IT Sometimes you fail, sometimes you don't get what you want, sometimes it's not all roses - true? Once you accept that you cannot have the ups without the downs, you realise that, "this too shall pass". When bad stuff happens to me, I like to 'lick my wounds' for a while and then, like the brilliant footballer, Harry Kane, I 'GO AGAIN'. Do this too - YES, YOU 🙏 🙏 🙏 Wow, I have given my all to this little piece on 'dusting yourself off'. I hope that I have not failed in my goal to help one person 😀 😀 😀 Have a blessed day and help someone today too !!! 🍒 Peace 🙏 and Love ❤️x #love #help #change #grateful #inpspiration #motivation #Caboom 🚀🚀🚀
Life. One moment you’re in your small room in Ikorodu struggling with hunger pangs and wondering if you’ll make it through the day. 2 years down the line you’re speaking at Oxford University and sharing your ideas in a room with some of the most brilliant minds in the world. It is said that there are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. In the stillness of those decades when nothing happens, learn,unlearn and build immense capacity. So when your decades in a week happens, you will be ready for it. One day the spotlight will find you, and you’ll get a chance to prove your mettle and show the world what you’re truly made of. Until then,never lose sight of who you are and the light you carry within, for it is this light that will illuminate your path and guide you when your moment in the spotlight arrives. Keep going Dreamer. I hope you never stop giving the world something new to believe in.
I’m 25 with 2 businesses and no home. All of this ‘happened’ in the last year. But it certainly wasn’t overnight. Here’s how I got here: Age 0-15: Raised by an incredible single mother who wore both hats. Gave everything to support me. Age 16: First job stacking shelves at Booths (a supermarket). Completed high school with bang-average grades. Started sixth form college. Age 17: Quit sixth form college after 3 months due to illness. Doctor said I was 24 hours away from dying of Septicemia. Spent my 17th birthday in hospital. Then became an apprentice at a print marketing agency. Learnt my way around Adobe’s design suite. Started doing bits of design work on the side with clients from outreach. Age 18-19: Discovered search marketing to help get more clients for the print marketing agency. Became obsessed with SEO. Spent most of my free time messing around with websites I built. Age 20: Wanted to take marketing more seriously. Quit my job to start a marketing degree. Quit after 2 weeks. Started an apprenticeship for an SEO agency where I managed 25 clients. This was alongside college I started 6 months later. Quit after 3 months. Realised traditional education systems suck. I learnt 100x more (and quicker) through self-education. Went all-in on learning and building whilst living at home with my mother and 2 young siblings. £0 income. Age 21: Got my first 2 freelancing clients on Upwork. They referred me to other clients. Hit £10K/mo by the end of the year. Age 22-23: Started a podcast side project and quickly reached 300K listeners per month. Sold it for 5 figures. Bought and sold 5 websites. Maxed out freelancing service at £15K/mo. Age 24: Founded Content Growth and built a team to help companies turn their blog into a 6 figure sales channel. Started posting on LinkedIn and increased revenue by 166% in 5 months. Age 25: Co-founded Byword; software that generates articles at scale for SEO. Sold everything and moved to Medellin, Colombia. Scaling both companies to 7 figures in ARR. Closing in on 100K total audience. I don’t think my journey is at all special. But there are some key themes: - Continuously learning and testing - Knowing when to quit and taking risks - Always improving relationships and networking My goal is to continue levelling up, exploring, meeting incredible people, achieving more freedom, and helping family and friends along the way. Because I believe that's why we're on this planet. What say you?
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Photos of the stunning lights of the aurora australis flooded social media on the weekend, and many shots were taken on humble mobile phones.
But is that a good way to capture this beautiful natural display in the night sky?
Professional photographer Luke Tscharke said that while he used a Sony Alpha 7 IV digital camera when covering the display on a beach near Hobart, people can also take good shots using modern mobile phones.
Here are Tscharke’s tips for photographing the southern lights using a mobile phone camera: The phone’s camera should be set to night mode, or it may automatically do so. Don’t use flash.
Monitor forecasting apps like windy.com to find a time to shoot when there isn’t much cloud.
Choose a place with as little light pollution as possible, away from street lights and buildings. When shooting, point to the southern horizon and hold the phone steady. Consider attaching a tripod.
Including subjects such as trees, buildings, a bridge, or people can tell a story and add interest to photos.
Reflective surfaces like a pond create a mirror effect that can amplify colours.
Review shots on your phone: what the camera picks up can be different to what the eye sees because cameras are more sensitive.
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If using a digital camera rather than a phone, choose a wide-angle lens, which allows for a wide shot, and use a wide aperture – a rating of F2.8 or lower – to let in as much light as possible. ISO – a measure of sensitivity – should be on the higher end of up to 6400.
Shutter speed should be five to 30 seconds. The longer the shutter speed, the less detail is captured.
A gallery of aurora australis photos on Tscharke’s Facebook page, Luke Tscharke Photography, posted at midday on Saturday received more than 290,000 “likes” and Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff was among the social media users who shared it.
On a separate matter, The Age deputy picture editor Paul Rovere says artificial enhancement is one issue that arises among some images shared online.
Here are Rovere’s tips that may help spot images that may be less than authentic.
Rovere says that when a digital image has been overprocessed with photo editing software, the quality of the picture is reduced, coarse pixels appear, the number of colours decreases, and detail gets lost.
“If you’re trying to ascertain whether the photo of the aurora australis your friend posted on Facebook has been photoshopped too much, look for blocky, tile-like squares in the saturated colours, or horizontal or vertical patterns at the extremes of the image,” Rovere said.
“Although the southern aurora colours are spectacular, a hyper-realistic or artificial appearance can also be a giveaway.”
But Tscharke was more understanding and said images can be edited differently. But he also added: “At the end of the day what people choose to show in their photos is all part of their own artistic vision, and it’s much more important for everyone to be out there enjoying these amazing spectacles and respecting the work that people are sharing and recognising that that’s what those people are choosing to put out into the world.”
“There may be fakery out there, but just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean other people will feel the same.”
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The northern lights can be seen again tonight in many parts of the northern United States. Displaying many colors from light pink to dark grays, the phenomenon in the sky is an event you’d want to capture.
Starting on Friday, May 10 many residents across the United States documented their pictures of the phenomenon on social media. The pictures, that look like wallpaper photos, have shown palm trees with an Ombre pink background and metro cities with a distinctive overcast.
Forecasters are predicting that many parts of the northern United States will see the aurora borealis again tonight and on Sunday night between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. local time.
Most people are looking up and capturing the beauty of the northern lights with amazing photos. And unless you’re a professional photographer with a DSLR handy, most are doing so with their smartphones.
In a call with reporters on Friday, Brent Gordon, Chief of Space Weather Services Branch for SWPC, said that using your smartphone could be the best way to view the northern lights. Even better than the human eye.
If you want to capture the northern lights perfectly on your smartphone, here are some tips.
Northern lights Saturday forecast: What's your chance of seeing the aurora borealis tonight?
How to get the best photos of the northern lights
Experts say you can capture memorable photos of the northern lights on your smartphone by adjusting the exposure time and enabling night mode if the feature is available on your device. Additionally, you can try out types of compositions on your smartphone for the best shots:
Wide-angle shot: Holding your phone horizontally you can achieve a wide angle shot. To get that wallpaper type picture you’ll want to use this angle to capture everything in front of you.
Pan: If you have the pano feature on your phone, you can flip your phone, either horizontally or vertically, to achieve a good photo that will also capture everything around you.
C or S Curve: Are the lights glowing on the street in your area? Snap a photo of it! C or S Curve photos are used to bring you in and out of a photo hypothetically. To achieve this, a curve has to be present and make the letter "C" or "S" in the photo.
Candid: Are you viewing the northern lights with family or friends? They can get in on the photo too! Standing behind them, you can capture their shadows as they look at the northern lights. You can also have your photo subjects walk in front of the lens as you take the photo. The style of shot is meant to be fun so there’s no right or wrong way you can achieve this.
Photos aside, remember to embrace this event
Yes, you want to get the perfect photo to post on social media or show off to your friends. However, you should still try to make memories with those around you to be able to talk about this event in the future. Remember that photos capture a moment of our lives, but memories are recorded events that we replay again and again in our heads for years to come.
Contributing: Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY
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What causes an aurora?
Auroras appear near both the north and south poles as the aurora borealis and the aurora australis. You may have noticed more aurora alerts lately as the sun has become more active. In fact, the bright blasts of activity on the sun are directly linked to these wispy, elusive lights we see in the night sky.
Storms on the sun that cause events such as coronal mass ejections and solar wind from coronal holes send charged particles hurtling across space. Because our sun is 93 million miles away (150 million km), the eruption we witness on the sun can take several days to reach our atmosphere. But if Earth is in the path of the particle stream, our planet’s magnetic field and atmosphere react from the impact.
When the charged particles from the sun strike atoms and molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, they excite those atoms, causing them to light up.
When charged particles interact with Earth’s atmosphere
What does it mean for an atom to be excited? Atoms consist of a central nucleus and a surrounding cloud of electrons encircling the nucleus in an orbit. When charged particles from the sun strike atoms in Earth’s atmosphere, electrons move to higher-energy orbits, further away from the nucleus. Then when an electron moves back to a lower-energy orbit, it releases a particle of light or photon.
What happens in an aurora is similar to what happens in the neon lights we see on many business signs. Electricity excites the atoms in the neon gas within the glass tubes of a neon sign. That’s why these signs give off their brilliant colors. The aurora works on the same principle, but at a far vaster scale.
The shapes of the northern and southern lights
The aurora often appears as curtains of lights, but they can also be arcs or spirals, following lines of force in Earth’s magnetic field. Most are green in color, but sometimes you’ll see a hint of pink. Strong displays might also have red, violet and white colors. The lights typically appear in the far north – the nations bordering the Arctic Ocean – Canada, Scandinavian countries, Iceland, Russia and the state of Alaska. But strong displays can extend down into more southerly latitudes. And of course, the lights have a counterpart at Earth’s south polar regions, though there is less land at high southerly latitudes for people to witness the displays.
The colors in the aurora were once a source of mystery throughout human history. But science says that different gases in Earth’s atmosphere give off different colors when they are excited. Oxygen gives off the green color of the aurora, for example. Nitrogen causes blue or red colors.
So today the mystery of the aurora is not so mysterious as it used to be. Yet people still travel thousands of miles to see the brilliant natural light shows in Earth’s atmosphere. And even though we know the scientific reason for the aurora, the dazzling natural light show can still fire our imaginations to visualize fire bridges, gods or dancing ghosts.
Ancient explanations and mythology behind the aurora
People have seen these dancing lights for millennia and have had their own explanations for them. Those who live at or visit high latitudes are sometimes lucky enough to experience these colored lights shimmering across the night sky. Some Inuit believed that they were seeing the spirits of their ancestors dancing in the flickering aurora. In Norse mythology, the aurora was a fire bridge to the sky that the gods built. You can read more about the mythology of the aurora here.
Mike Taylor’s photos of the aurora
EarthSky friend Mike Taylor shared these incredible aurora images with us.
Bottom line: When charged particles from the sun strike atoms in Earth’s atmosphere, they cause electrons in the atoms to move to a higher-energy state. When the electrons drop back to a lower energy state, they release a photon: light. This process creates the beautiful aurora, or northern and southern lights.
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An aurora is a natural light display that shimmers in the sky. Blue, red, yellow, green, and orange lights shift gently and change shape like softly blowing curtains. Auroras are only visible at night, and usually only appear in lower polar regions.
Auroras are visible almost every night near the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, which are about 66.5 degrees north and south of the Equator. In the north, the display is called aurora borealis, or northern lights. In the south, it is called aurora australis, or southern lights.
Auroras and the Solar Wind
The activity that creates auroras begins on the sun. The sun is a ball of superhot gases made of electrically charged particles called ions. The ions, which continuously stream from the sunâs surface, are called the solar wind.
As solar wind approaches Earth, it meets Earthâs magnetic field. Without this magnetic field protecting the planet, the solar wind would blow away Earthâs fragile atmosphere, preventing all life. Most of the solar wind is blocked by the magnetosphere, and the ions, forced around the planet, continue to travel farther into the solar system.
Although most of the solar wind is blocked by the magnetosphere, some of the ions become briefly trapped in ring-shaped holding areas around the planet. These areas, in a region of the atmosphere called the ionosphere, are centered around Earthâs geomagnetic poles. The geomagnetic poles mark the tilted axis of Earthâs magnetic field. They lie about 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from the geographic poles, but are slowly moving.
In the ionosphere, the ions of the solar wind collide with atoms of oxygen and nitrogen from Earthâs atmosphere. The energy released during these collisions causes a colorful glowing halo around the polesâan aurora. Most auroras happen about 97-1,000 kilometers (60-620 miles) above Earthâs surface.
The most active auroras happen when the solar wind is the strongest. The solar wind is usually fairly constant, but solar weatherâthe heating and cooling of different parts of the sunâcan change daily.
Solar weather is often measured in sunspots. Sunspots are the coldest part of the sun and appear as dark blobs on its white-hot surface. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are associated with sunspots . Solar flares and coronal mass eject ions are sudden, extra bursts of energy in the solar wind . Sunspot activity is tracked over an 11-year cycle. Bright, consistent auroras are most visible during the height of sunspot activity.
Some increased activity in the solar wind happens during every equinox. These regular fluctuat ions are known as magnetic storms. Magnetic storms can lead to auroras being seen in the midlatitudes during the time around the spring and autumnal equinoxes. Auroras have been visible as far south as the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
Magnetic storms and active auroras can sometimes interfere with communicat ions . They can disrupt radio and radar signals. Intense magnetic storms can even disable communicat ion satellites.
Coloring an Aurora
The colors of the aurora vary, depending on altitude and the kind of atoms involved. If ions strike oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere , the interact ion produces a red glow. This is an unusual aurora âthe most familiar display, a green-yellow hue, occurs as ions strike oxygen at lower altitudes . Reddish and bluish light that often appears in the lower fringes of auroras is produced by ions striking atoms of nitrogen . Ions striking hydrogen and helium atoms can produce blue and purple auroras , although our eyes can rarely detect this part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
To find out more about the mysterious light displays, scientists have launched satellites specially designed to study auroras . Until 2005, NASAâs IMAGE ( Imager for Magnetopause-to- Aurora Global Explorat ion ) satellite used ultraviolet and radio waves to study auroras and how they are formed.
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Charged particles ejected in high volume 93 million miles away produced what for many Virginians were unprecedented sights in the Friday night skies.
A rare G5 geomagnetic storm, caused by a series of coronal mass ejections from the sun primarily related to a recent large cluster of sunspots, sparked the largest and most intense display of the aurora borealis in decades on Friday night, bringing glowing skies typically reserved for Canada and other northern latitudes as far south as Namibia in Africa and the Florida Keys in the United States.
It was Virginia’s most widely visible and intensely colorful display of the Northern Lights since at least 2003, when the last G5 storm occurred near Halloween, though depending on who you ask, 1991, 1941 and 1932 are some other answers that might come up on the question of the last similar aurora.
Even in 2003, neither smartphone technology, with cameras that can actually pull in more light than the naked eye with short night exposures, nor social media, which spreads those images globally in seconds, were in ubiquitous use. So that has the effect of magnifying an amazing celestial and atmospheric event that much more. For the most part, the colors of the aurora appear much more vibrant in digital photographs than could be seen visually.
Both Saturday night/Sunday morning and Sunday night/Monday morning carry the potential for additional aurora visibility far to the south of normal as more coronal mass ejections have been detected, though timing and intensity of the brighter periods is uncertain.
Below are images from around and near Cardinal News territory of the aurora as it was seen Friday night into early Saturday morning. If you have photos of weather or sky phenomena of any sort in or near the Southwest/Southside Virginia coverage area of Cardinal News, please email them to weather@cardinalnews.org for possible use in a future Cardinal News article. You can also submit photos to @KevinMyattWx or @CardinalNewsVA on X/Twitter or on the Kevin Myatt’s Weather Wonders or Cardinal News Facebook pages.
Journalist Kevin Myatt has been writing about weather for 20 years. His weekly column, appearing on Wednesdays, is sponsored by Oakey’s, a family-run, locally owned funeral home with locations throughout the Roanoke Valley.
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By Staff Writer
An amazing display of the southern lights, or aurora australis as it is known as in the southern hemisphere, was visibly on Saturday morning in Southern Africa.
We've also posted a number of photos from outside of Africa, mostly sent in by South African expats.
According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), who issued a solar storm warning for the category G5 event, this is the strongest geomagnetic storm to hit earth in twenty years.
The event is likely to continue once it gets dark on Saturday evening, although it will be less strong than on Friday.
More photos will be posted here so check back regularly.
All photos are carefully examined to ensure that they seem authentic. The main photo of Table Moutain, which some people are convinced is fake, has been verified in detail and we are certain that it and the other six photos and one video that were taken by the same person are genuine (details will be posted on our social media shortly).
Please be sure to send photos and videos to us via whatsapp and also tell us where and when they were taken.
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Photos from South Africa
Hugh-Daniel – Gansbaai, Western Cape
Steven – Glencairn Heights, Cape Town
Andrew – Knysna Heads
Madie – Silver Streams Cottages Drakensberg
Madie – Silver Streams Cottages Drakensberg
Madie – Silver Streams Cottages Drakensberg
Paige – Mtunzini in KwaZulu-Natal
Reeza – Robertson in the Western Cape
Reeza – Robertson in the Western Cape
Reeza – Robertson in the Western Cape
Robyn – Queenstown in the Eastern Cape
Alicia – Rietbron in the Klein Karoo
Nico – Betty's Bay
Photos from other countries
Michael – Vienna, Austria
Chris – Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Chris – Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Chris – Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Chris – Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Maryke – Ashburton, New Zealand
Maryke – Ashburton, New Zealand
Maryke – Ashburton, New Zealand
Graeme – Boissevain Manitoba Canada
Graeme – Boissevain Manitoba Canada
Graeme – Boissevain Manitoba Canada
Graeme – Boissevain Manitoba Canada
Kobus – South Dakota, USA
Kobus – South Dakota, USA
Kobus – South Dakota, USA
Kobus – South Dakota, USA
Michelle – Adelaide, Australia
Michelle – Adelaide, Australia
Michelle – Adelaide, Australia
Flight from Perth to South Africa
Flight from Perth to South Africa
Flight from Perth to South Africa
Yolande – Palmerston North, New Zealand
Yolande – Palmerston North, New Zealand
Yolande – Palmerston North, New Zealand
Claire – Berkshire, United Kingdom
Martin – Caherline, Ireland
Martin – Caherline, Ireland
Martin – Caherline, Ireland
Tanita – Ireland
Danika – Frankland River, Western Australia
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25th Annual Gingerbread House Contest and Show
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The Hyattsville Jazz Collective was founded in 2018 and calls Maryland Meadworks home. The group performs there once a month...
Idol Beings
Idol Beings is the musical partnership of vocalist Akua Allrich and bassist/producer Kris Funn. Born and raised in the DMV,...
Immersive Sound Meditation Experience: Underwater Retreat
May is National Physical Fitness & Sports Month! Take a trip to a calming destination as the Publick Playhouse stage...
In the Mood for Love
Released in 2000, In the Mood for Love features two neighbors that form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital...
International Dance Experience
Dancers representing countries from across the globe get together to showcase their talent in this interactive and immersive dance experience....
Janet Paulsen: It’s a Lovely Day Today with Doris, Dinah, and Ella
An afternoon of entertainment with jazz and pop vocalist Janet Paulsen is always a joyful, swinging, and deeply thoughtful occasion....
Jenee Mateer: Entropy
Inspired by Renaissance still life paintings and representations of nature morte, Entropy developed out of Jenee Mateers interest in the...
Jenee Mateer: Entropy Public Reception
Inspired by Renaissance still life paintings and representations of nature morte, Entropy developed out of Jenee Mateers interest in the...
Jenny Nordstrom Fire and Ice: Photographic Abstracts of Deserts and Glaciers Opening Reception
Jenny Nordstrom is a fine arts photographer who captures deeply colorful, textured images from around the world. She has been...
Jenny Nordstrom: Fire and Ice: Photographic Abstracts of Deserts and Glaciers
Jenny Nordstrom is a fine arts photographer who captures deeply colorful, textured images from around the world. She has been...
Jeremy Wright
Ceramicist and sculptor Jeremy Wright explores the concept of identity and the interplay between the actual and the perceived, challenging...
Jeremy Wright Public Reception
Ceramicist and sculptor Jeremy Wright explores the concept of identity and the interplay between the actual and the perceived, challenging...
Jim Bennett
Discover the captivating journey of Jim Bennett, a soulful musician whose music resonates with the essence of the South. With...
Joseph Shepperd Rogers (aka AIVEN): "Retrospective" Public Artist Reception
Join us for an opening reception of “Retrospective” with artist Joseph Shepperd Rogers (aka AIVEN). In this exhibit, Neo-Expressionism meets...
Joy Nutt: Common Thread
Joy Nutt, a first-generation Trinidadian American born in Washington, D.C., brings her artistic vision to life. Studying at Howard University,...
Joy Nutt: Common Thread Opening Reception
Joy Nutt, a first-generation Trinidadian American born in Washington, D.C., brings her artistic vision to life. Studying at Howard University,...
Julie Polt: Did You See a Bird Today?
When asked daily, this simple question can create a shift in perspective toward mindful awareness. Julie Polt seeks to ask...
Julie Polt: Did You See a Bird Today? Public Reception
When asked daily, this simple question can create a shift in perspective toward mindful awareness. Julie Polt seeks to ask...
Karen Linette
Karen Linette is the go-to person for vocals in the Washington, D.C., area. A pillar in the music community known...
Keith Kozloff: Drifiting Through Deep Time
Keith Kozloff, an artist, writer, and activist, delves into the intricate web of human connections and disconnections with ourselves, others,...
Keith Kozloff: Drifiting Through Deep Time Opening Reception
Keith Kozloff, an artist, writer, and activist, delves into the intricate web of human connections and disconnections with ourselves, others,...
Kevin Powe Sr. Trio
With a musical journey spanning over 50 years, Kevin Powe Sr, a seasoned guitarist, has graced the stage alongside an...
Kings Return
Dynamic and soothing four-piece vocal group Kings Return take pride in crafting a diverse yet supremely cohesive a cappella sound:...
Knox Engler
Knox Engler is a multi-instrumentalist based in Washington DC. With over 20 years of performance experience, Knox is a musical...
Kristina Penhoet: Contextual Remnants
Washington, D.C. based artist Kristina Penhoet in Contextual Remnants, uses crochet and other handwork methods in this exhibition to create...
Kristina Penhoet: Contextual Remnants Opening Reception
Washington, D.C. based artist Kristina Penhoet in Contextual Remnants, uses crochet and other handwork methods in this exhibition to create...
Kwanzaa Essentials
Be part of an afternoon of family fun and cultural immersion while learning about the event known as Kwanzaa. International...
Leigh Pilzer's Seven Pointed Star
Led by baritone saxophonist Leigh Pilzer, Seven Pointed Star is one of the region’s hottest new jazz groups, featuring some...
Lena Seikaly and Steve Herberman
Vocalist Lena Seikaly and guitarist Steve Herberman have played together regularly for the past seven years in the DC metro...
Little Sculpture Workshop
Join us for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to create your own miniature sculptures using various materials and techniques....
Logical Progressions: Celebrating Make Studio and Mid-Atlantic Progressive Art Studios
A progressive art studio is a fine arts milieu in which people with disabilities can create and maintain meaningful lives...
Logical Progressions: Celebrating Make Studio and Mid-Atlantic Progressive Art Studios Public Reception
A progressive art studio is a fine arts milieu in which people with disabilities can create and maintain meaningful lives...
Luther Vandross Relives: A Timeless Tribute by Williams “Smooth” Wardlaw
Experience the magic of Luther Vandross brought back to life in a spectacular tribute performance by William ‘Smooth’ Wardlaw. In...
Maryamm Abdullah Maybe Marrakech, A Moorish Revival Story Opening Reception
Maryamm Abdullah, once a child enamored with painting, now finds her passion in ceramics. After a decades-long hiatus, she returned...
Maryamm Abdullah: Maybe Marrakech, A Moorish Revival Story
Maryamm Abdullah, once a child enamored with painting, now finds her passion in ceramics. After a decades-long hiatus, she returned...
Master Class with Dallas Black Dance Theatre: African Dance for Teens & Adults
Dancers learn a mixture of regional dances of Africa from the professionals of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre. Women/girls can...
Master Class with Dallas Black Dance Theatre: Liturgical Dance for Teens & Adults
Dancers learn praise choreography from the professionals of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre. Spaces are limited; advance registration is recommended....
Memphis Gold
The blues world continues to discover and love the music of Memphis Gold. He’s made an indelible mark on the...
Message of Conscience, Messengers of Inspiration - Collective Voices Celebrates National Poetry Month
Immerse yourself in dialogue-turned-poetry and step into a world where words wield power and conscience finds voice. Join us as...
Michael Hawkins and the Brotherhood
Michael Hawkins is a charismatic bassist and composer currently heating up the jazz scene in the greater Richmond, VA, area...
Motown and More at the Holidays
Back by popular demand! Celebrate the Holidays with the soulful sounds of Motown. The soul-stirring melodies of iconic artists like...
Mud to Music: Flute-Making Workshop
Step into the world of creativity and self-expression with Mud to Music’s Flute-Making Workshop, happening as part of our Hispanic...
Mud to Music: Performance and Demo
Embark on a journey of discovery in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month with Mud to Music. Led by skilled instrument-maker...
Naomi Wong
Toronto-born pianist Naomi Wong is emerging as a compelling musical orator whose sincere and thoughtful artistry places human connection at...
On KEE Jazz Band Trio
ON KEE Jazz Band delivers a fusion of smooth jazz and original compositions, captivating audiences across the Northeast United States....
Panel Discussion: Black Music and Labor
For centuries, Black people have experienced the struggles of work, employment, and labor legalities in their lives. From enslaved Africans...
Peculiar Matters
The group exhibition Peculiar Matters dives into a world of found objects, reflections of time and space, and awkward landscapes....
Peculiar Matters Closing Reception
The group exhibition Peculiar Matters dives into a world of found objects, reflections of time and space, and awkward landscapes....
Pedrito Martinez
Pedrito Martinez is a Cuban percussionist, drummer, singer, songwriter, and composer originally from Havana, Cuba. A consummate master of Afro-Cuban...
Pen & Pose: A Workshop in Yoga and Writing
In this hour-and-a-half workshop, poet and yoga educator Yael Flusberg will guide students through breath work, poses, mindfulness techniques, and...
Penelope Shvarts
Penelope Shvarts has played both classical and flamenco guitar since she was five years old and is currently studying at...
Platinum Film: American Fiction
This 2023 drama/comedy was called “the best picture of the year” by the Washington Post. A novelist who is fed...
Platinum Film: Chevalier
This 2022 film, directed by Stephen Willams, is based on the factual story of French-Caribbean musician Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de...
Platinum Film: The Color Purple
Experience the extraordinary sisterhood of three women who share an unbreakable bond in “The Color Purple.” This bold new take...
Public Speaking, 6-week Class
Do you have to speak at large events, but feel you dont always convey your message effectively? Do you find...
Puppetry, 6-week Class
Puppet Yes! This 6-week class focuses on the power of making puppets, moving puppets, and voicing puppets. Participants will be...
Racquel Keller: Reflections of Enchantment
“Reflections of Enchantment” explores the intriguing interplay between mirrors and the imagination. Each piece in the exhibition mirrors the essence...
Racquel Keller: Reflections of Enchantment Public Reception
“Reflections of Enchantment” explores the intriguing interplay between mirrors and the imagination. Each piece in the exhibition mirrors the essence...
Ray “Apollo” Allen
Ray “Apollo” Allen is a songwriter, composer, and powerhouse performer who masters the genres of blues, R&B, and gospel. Formerly...
Remembering Marvin Gaye
Shelton Cornelius Price, a phenomenal male artist, hails from Washington, DC. As a dedicated healthcare provider and military veteran, he...
Rental Opportunities
Brentwood Arts Exchange features three unique and affordable spaces perfect for hosting events of all types and sizes, including the...
Reverberations: The Butterfly Effect of Michael B Platt Artist and Curator Talk
As a companion to Something Left Behind: Selections from the Studio of Michael B. Platt, curated by Gia Harewood in...
Reverberations: The Butterfly Effect of Michael B Platt Public Reception
As a companion to Something Left Behind: Selections from the Studio of Michael B. Platt, curated by Gia Harewood in...
Right Over Left: DMV Runway Review (2017-Present)
Right over Left: DMV Runway Review (2017-Present) is a group exhibition, curated by Danyela J Brown, and featuring contemporary DMV...
Right Over Left: DMV Runway Review (2017-Present) Artist and Curator Talk
Right over Left: DMV Runway Review (2017-Present) is a group exhibition, curated by Danyela J Brown, and featuring contemporary DMV...
Right Over Left: DMV Runway Review (2017-Present) Public Reception
Right over Left: DMV Runway Review (2017-Present) is a group exhibition, curated by Danyela J Brown, and featuring contemporary DMV...
Russell Thompkin Jr. & The New Stylistics
Russell Thompkins Jr. and The New Stylistics, a Philadelphia soul group, achieved chart-topping success in the 1970s. Their ballads, defined...
Santa & a Movie: The Polar Express
Embrace the joy of the season by joining us at our annual December family event! Get into the holiday spirit...
Sasha Loriene-McClain: Child's Play: A Reimagination of Social Norms
Childs Play: A Reimagination of Social Norms is a transformative exploration. Through mixed media paintings and community art, it delves...
Sasha Loriene-McClain: Child's Play: A Reimagination of Social Norms Opening Reception
Childs Play: A Reimagination of Social Norms is a transformative exploration. Through mixed media paintings and community art, it delves...
Screening: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Enjoy a screening of a high-quality, filmed version of Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, X: The Life and Times...
Sharon Robinson: "Myth and Mystery" Public Artist Reception
Join us for an opening reception of “Myth and Mystery” with artist Sharon Robinson. Trained as a city planner and...
Silvia Martínez & Pepe Piedra: "Icons, Idioms and Myth" Public Artist Reception
Join us during our Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration to meet artists Pepe Piedra (Perú) and Silvia Martinez (Puerto Rico) and...
Sneaker Design Workshop
In the Soles of Imagination shoe design workshop, participants take charge of the entire brand process. They create color concepts,...
Soles of Duende
Bonded by their deep love of music, their crafts, and true connection, Soles of Duende is on a lifelong mission...
Something Left Behind: Selections from the Studio of Michael B. Platt Artist and Curator Talk
Curated by Gia Harewood, Something Left Behind: Selections from the Studio of Michael B. Platt, presents work that showcases an...
Sy Smith: Black Music Heals
Sy Smith is heralded as one of the hardest working women in soul music. But she’s also one of the...
Sylver Logan Sharp: Home for the Holidays
Celebrate the holiday season in spectacular style by attending an unforgettable performance from the sensational Sylver Logan Sharp, the former...
Tablao Flamenco
Experience the magnetic energy of flamenco like you’ve never seen before. Tablao Flamenco brings a fresh approach to a night...
Taisha Estrada
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a performance by Puerto Rican vocalist Taisha Estrada. Rooted in the rich traditions of Latin...
The 44th Annual Invitational Sculpture Exhibition
For more than 40 years, the Montpelier Arts Center has been showcasing the work of sculptors throughout the region. The...
The 44th Annual Invitational Sculpture Exhibition Artist Talk/Luncheon
For more than 40 years, the Montpelier Arts Center has been showcasing the work of sculptors throughout the region. The...
The 44th Annual Invitational Sculpture Exhibition Public Reception
For more than 40 years, the Montpelier Arts Center has been showcasing the work of sculptors throughout the region. The...
The 56th Annual Laurel Art Guild Juried Exhibition
This annual exhibit organized by the Laurel Art Guild is juried by a regional professional and showcases works by artists...
The 56th Annual Laurel Art Guild Juried Exhibition Public Reception
This annual exhibit organized by the Laurel Art Guild is juried by a regional professional and showcases works by artists...
The JoGo Project
The JoGo Project is a WAMMIE Award-winning jazz and go-go band from Washington, D.C., founded in 2014 by Elijah Jamal...
The Music of The Isley Brothers
Join us for “A Tribute to the Music of the Isley Brothers.” Get ready for an unforgettable night as we...
The Nutcracker
Returning to the Publick Playhouse stage, the National Ballet Company revisits the enchanting world of “The Nutcracker,” a holiday classic...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History
The Sound of DC: A Visual History is a four-part exhibition series in the Lab Gallery, focused on the rich...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Fashion
Curated by Monica Sklar, Assistant Professor & Director/Coordinator of the Historic Clothing and Textiles Collection, University of Georgia, The Sound...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Fashion Artist and Curator Talk
Curated by Monica Sklar, Assistant Professor & Director/Coordinator of the Historic Clothing and Textiles Collection, University of Georgia, The Sound...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Fashion Public Reception
Curated by Monica Sklar, Assistant Professor & Director/Coordinator of the Historic Clothing and Textiles Collection, University of Georgia, The Sound...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Behind-the-Scenes
Curated by Pete Duvall, The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Behind-the-Scenes presents photos of those who documented the...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Behind-the-Scenes Closing Reception
Curated by Pete Duvall, The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Behind-the-Scenes presents photos of those who documented the...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Go-Go
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Go-Go explores the history and contemporary influences of Go-Go, a music genre...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Go-Go Artist and Curator Talk
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Go-Go explores the history and contemporary influences of Go-Go, a music genre...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Go-Go Public Reception
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Go-Go explores the history and contemporary influences of Go-Go, a music genre...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Punk DIY
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Punk explores the emergence of the punk rock subculture in 1976 in...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Punk DIY Artist and Curator Talk
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Punk explores the emergence of the punk rock subculture in 1976 in...
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Punk DIY Public Reception
The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Punk explores the emergence of the punk rock subculture in 1976 in...
Tote that Barge!: Black Music and Labor Concert
Enjoy this concert version of the Broadway hit “Showboat” by composer Jerome Kern and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein, based...
Travis Childers: Accumulating the Everyday
Travis Childers, a Nashville-born artist, combines collage and sculpture in his exhibition Accumulating the Everyday. Using tape, he crafts collages...
Travis Childers: Accumulating the Everyday Opening Reception
Travis Childers, a Nashville-born artist, combines collage and sculpture in his exhibition Accumulating the Everyday. Using tape, he crafts collages...
Tribute to Curtis Mayfield
A live tribute to the music of Curtis Lee Mayfield featuring the Brencore All Stars. “Over the course of a...
Tribute to Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack
“A Tribute to the Music of Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack” features National Recording Artists Jamar Dukes and Shuga Shang....
Tribute to Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight is a legendary singer known for her powerful vocals and captivating performances. Her music has touched the hearts...
Tribute to Nina Simone & Miriam Makeba w/ Akua Allrich
For over 15 years running, Akua Allrich has curated and performed a soul-stirring tribute presentation, honoring Nina Simone and Miriam...
Tribute to the Music of Frankie Beverly and Maze
Get ready for an unforgettable evening as we pay homage to the iconic music of MAZE and Frankie Beverly, featuring...
Tribute to the Music of Switch and DeBarge
Join us for an electrifying Tribute Concert celebrating the timeless hits of two iconic R&B groups: Switch and DeBarge. From...
Uplift: Inspirational Dance Festival
Join us for an unforgettable gathering of community, as we witness the power of dance to inspire and transform. The...
Valerie June
Valerie June is a talented singer/songwriter known for her soulful voice and eclectic blend of folk, blues, and country music....
Veterans Book Group
This programs meets every third Thursday starting in January and running through May. Jan. 16th 2025 Feb. 20th 2025 Mar....
Vibe/Vibrance
Vibe/Vibrance, a group exhibit featuring Chee Kung, Jenny Nordstrom, Sookkyung Park, Alexandra Sherman, and April Wright, will create a zestful...
Vibe/Vibrance Artist and Curator Talk
Vibe/Vibrance, a group exhibit featuring Chee Kung, Jenny Nordstrom, Sookkyung Park, Alexandra Sherman, and April Wright, will create a zestful...
Vibe/Vibrance Public Reception
Vibe/Vibrance, a group exhibit featuring Chee Kung, Jenny Nordstrom, Sookkyung Park, Alexandra Sherman, and April Wright, will create a zestful...
Visiting Resident Artist Exhibition
This exhibition will showcase work by Montpelier Arts Centers visiting resident artist, who has been busy all year creating one-of-a-kind...
Visiting Resident Artist Exhibition Public Reception
This exhibition will showcase work by Montpelier Arts Center’s visiting resident artist, who has been busy all year creating one-of-a-kind...
Voices From the Past: Hazel Scott
Classical and jazz pianist and singer Hazel Scott (19201981) was the first person of African descent to host their own...
Yoga & Jazz
Breathe in, breathe out! Relax and find your center at a yoga class featuring live jazz music, held in Montpelier...
Young Technician's Program for Teens, 6-week Class
Mic cables, light cues, and painting props, oh my! Become a competent crew person in backstage basics. In this 6-week...
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In this incredible shot taken from the International Space Station on March 10, 2012 by Dutch astronaut André Kuipers, we see an absolutely breathtaking view of Aurora Australis (the Southern Lights) between Antarctica and Australia.
An aurora (plural: aurorae or auroras) is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and, on Earth, are directed by the Earth’s magnetic field into the atmosphere.
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Is NASA campaigning to have the galaxy's best Instagram page? It sure seems that way with the latest images from the James Webb Space Telescope of Jupiter and last month's stunning shots of the Carina Nebula and Southern Ring Nebula.
And now, the space agency is sharing a remarkable image of the southern lights, or aurora australis, taken from the International Space Station.
The southern lights, which are similar to the aurora borealis, can be seen best from Tasmania, New Zealand and Antarctica, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Its "incredible atmospheric lightshow" is "just as captivating" as that of the aurora borealis, the magazine says.
In the image, which NASA posted on Instagram and on its own site Tuesday, a greenish glow arises above the curve of the Earth. The color changes to red as the light goes higher above the horizon. At the right, a section of the International Space Station can be seen.
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"The vibrant displays of light around Earth’s North and South Poles are caused by the interaction of solar particles, ejected by the Sun, and our planet’s protective magnetic field," NASA's Instagram post of the image describes.
During large solar storms, the post continues, "the Sun spews large bubbles of electrified gas which collide with our magnetic field at its North and South Poles and enter our atmosphere ... these energized solar particles collide with atmospheric gases resulting in beautiful displays of light."
When the particles collide with oxygen in the atmosphere, "they give off rich red and green hues as seen in this image. Conversely, if these same particles collide with nitrogen in our atmosphere they illuminate the sky in glows of blue and purple," NASA said.
Bob Hines, a pilot currently on the ISS, took the picture and several others he posted on Twitter last week, noting the "Absolutely SPECTACULAR aurora today!!"
On Twitter, Hines answered some questions about the images including one tweet that asked: "Are you tweeting from space?"
"Yup," Hines responded.
On Instagram, the image had nearly 1 million likes on Wednesday, including one from the rock band Garbage. Along with the images, NASA encouraged its followers to "Let your light shine."
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Recommended Camera Settings
You will need to crank up the light sensitivity (ISO) of your camera as far up as your camera allows while still retaining a decent image quality. For entry level cameras that will be something around ISO 800- 1500. With professional cameras like the Nikon D850, Sony A7R4, Canon 5D IV, Canon EOS R 5 and many more, you can also go way further up to ISO3600-8000 and still get a printable result. Then there are also the ISO monster like the Sony Alpha A7S III. These fantastic little night vision devices allow you to go up to ISO 45000 and still retain a nice workable file at a lower resolution.
Open the aperture (f-stop) of your lens as much as you can to let as much light as possible hit the sensor. After all we are talking about night photography, which of course includes shooting in total darkness depending on the moon. Entry level l enses will most like stop at f 4 or f 5.6. This doesn´t mean that it´s impossible to shoot night images with them, but you won´t have much playground compared to more sophisticated lenses. Even a small jump in the aperture will mean significantly less light hitting the sensor of your camera. You´ll most likely be forced to shoot at the higher end of your ISO range and still need to do long exposures of around 30". Most professional lenses will offer at least f2.8. A very popular lens for aurora photography which i almost exclusively use for this purpose is the NIkkor 14-24 2.8.
Even Canon and Sony users often use this Nikon lens on their cameras, as it has had the fame to be the sharpest zoom lens with the best values for coma and corner sharpness. There are also many prime wide angle lenses that offer wider apertures, but many of them face different issues when used wide open. If this interests you, check out Petapixel about how to read MTF charts. I personally don´t give much about all these charts and controlled test examinations. Instead, i´ll always just search for real life user feedback and then rent a lens in order to test it out there in the field- that´s the only thing that matters to me in the end.
The exposure you should go for is depending on the intensity of the Aurora and especially the speed of the movement. The faster it dances- the shorter we have to expose to retain the gorgeus textures preventing rendering the result to nothing more than a colorful blop in the sky.
If the lights are faint and only slowly moving, start with f2.8, ISO1000, 20-30"
When they pick up pace adjust to f2.8, ISO2000, 10-20"
Now the lights go totally crazy like they are likely to do in the next days you will need to play with the settings to stay under 10" exposure for the best results.
Something i have frequently used: f2.8, ISO3600, 2-8"
All this is dependant on your camera gear and most importantly light sources like the moon and also the light pollution of street lamps, cities and even boats on the sea. While searching for tips to shoot the Aurora borealis one will often find people saying that the days around new moon are the best. I disagree with this and prefer to shoot with increasing or decreasing moon- but not at full moon. The landscape will be extremely dark around full moon while it get´s lid up beautyfully when the moonlight shines to gently play with the surrounding landscapes. This effect adds so much to a landscape photograph... in the end the best you can do is extending your trip as much as possible to make sure to get multiple chances to shoot the northern lights- this way you can also learn how much moonlight adds to your scenery and how much it can cause trouble when it´s missing.
How to nail focus in the dark
During the night we will be opening the aperture to collect as much light as possible, which also leads to a shallow depth of field. For most purposes of Aurora photography we will want to have as much of our scene tack sharp as possible. We can achieve this by avoiding to have elements too close to the lens.
The easiest way of focussing in the darkness of the night is searching for a bright light source that is far away from you- some cameras are capable of doing this in liveview using a bright star, for most we´ll have to drop a lamp around 50m from us and then focus on it. Sometimes we can also use the car lights of some other photographers which might be somewhere around or street lamps, houses (which we normally try to avoid- some of the best locations still feature a few of them unfortunately). This will lead to an image that is sharp enough overall and with some sharpening applied in postprocessing it´s totally useable.
Now shooting with wideangle lenses really invites to play with prominent foregrounds- this can result in quite a pain. But luckily there is the great technique of focus stacking. For this you shoot different images at the same settings while adjusting only the focus throughout the scene. I do it manually without even watching it anymore nowadays, but using liveview and a torch to light up the area of interest is also a good technique. This can be very disturbing for other photographers though- so be always conscient about this and don´t overdo it.
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The northern lights, or the aurora borealis, are beautiful dancing ribbons of light that have captivated people for millennia. But for all its beauty, this spectacular light show is a rather violent event.
The northern lights are created when energized particles from the sun slam into Earth's upper atmosphere at speeds of up to 45 million mph (72 million kph), but our planet's magnetic field protects us from the onslaught.
As Earth's magnetic field redirects the particles toward the poles — there are southern lights, too, which you can read about below — the dramatic process transforms into a cinematic atmospheric phenomenon that dazzles and fascinates scientists and skywatchers alike.
Related: Where to see the northern lights: 2024 aurora borealis guide
How do the northern lights form?
At any given moment, the sun is ejecting charged particles from its corona, or upper atmosphere, creating the solar wind. When that wind slams into Earth's ionosphere, or upper atmosphere, the aurora is born. In the Northern Hemisphere, the phenomenon is called the northern lights (aurora borealis), while in the Southern Hemisphere, it's called the southern lights (aurora australis).
"These particles are deflected towards the poles of Earth by our planet's magnetic field and interact with our atmosphere, depositing energy and causing the atmosphere to fluoresce," Billy Teets, the director of Dyer Observatory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee told Space.com.
The bright colors of the northern lights are dictated by the chemical composition of Earth's atmosphere.
"Every type of atom or molecule, whether it's atomic hydrogen or a molecule like carbon dioxide, absorbs and radiates its own unique set of colors, which is analogous to how every human being has a unique set of fingerprints," Teets told Space.com.
"Some of the dominant colors seen in aurorae are red, a hue produced by the nitrogen molecules, and green, which is produced by oxygen molecules." Teet continued.
Northern lights FAQs
We asked Dr. Elizabeth MacDonald a few frequently asked questions about auroras.
What causes the movement and shape of auroras?
Constantly changing input from the sun, varying responses from the Earth's upper atmosphere, and the motion of the planet and particles in near-Earth space all conspired to cause different auroral motions and shapes. From these motions and shapes, we can learn about the physics happening further out in space along the Earth's magnetic field lines.
What do auroras tell us about Earth's atmosphere?
Auroras tell us many things about Earth's upper atmosphere, including its density, composition, flow speeds, and the strength of electrical currents flowing in the upper atmosphere. These in turn tell us about the Earth's magnetic field, how it extends into space, and how it changes dynamically. All of this is important for protecting Earth and space-borne technologies from hazards of "space weather" of which aurora is one part.
Do we have auroras on other planets?
Yes! Aurora indicates planets with magnetic fields and atmospheres, which vary a lot compared to Earth.
Northern lights and solar maximum
While solar wind is constant, the sun's emissions go through a roughly 11-year cycle of activity. Sometimes there's a lull, but other times, there are vast storms that bombard Earth with extreme amounts of energy. This is when the northern lights are at their brightest and most frequent.
Lucky for aurora hunters, we are currently approaching solar maximum which is predicted to peak between early 2024 to late 2025. Scientists cannot pinpoint exactly when solar maximum will occur but we do know it's on its way.
"Currently for solar cycle 25, by synthesizing all published predictions, the time interval for the cycle maximum ranges from late 2023 to early 2025" Frédéric Clette, solar physicist, World Data Center Sunspot Index and Long-term Solar Observations (SILSO) and Solar Influence Data analysis Center (SIDC) told Space.com in an email.
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) recently issued a revised prediction that suggests solar maximum may occur between July 2024 and January 2025.
If you're planning an aurora hunting trip now is the time as "the next few years will be the most favorable for auroral sightings," Clette continued.
Related: We may have just witnessed some of the strongest auroras in 500 years
Where and when to see the northern lights
Seeing the northern lights with your own eyes is a bucket-list item for astronomy lovers and travelers alike. Fortunately, they occur frequently.
"The northern lights are happening 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year," said photographer Chad Blakely, owner of the northern lights tour company Lights Over Lapland. But that doesn't mean they're easy to spot; you need to be at the right place at the right time.
Related: Northern lights webcams: Watch the aurora borealis online for free
The best place to see the northern lights is any destination in the "auroral zone," the area within an approximately 1,550-mile (2,500 kilometers) radius of the North Pole, according to the Tromsø Geophysical Observatory in Norway. That's where the aurora most frequently occurs, though the phenomenon can creep farther south during particularly strong solar storms.
If planning a trip to see the northern lights, I highly recommend Hurtigruten's Astronomy Voyage which combines northern lights viewing, astronomy lectures and the beautiful Norwegian coastline. You can read all about what it's like onboard in my article "What it's like to chase the northern lights along Norway's dramatic coastline".
Within the auroral zone, it's best to be as far away from city lights as possible to maximize visibility. But it's pretty tricky to get into the middle of the Arctic wilderness, even with a guide, so it's best to base yourself in a destination with solid infrastructure, like Fairbanks, Alaska; Yellowknife, Canada; Tromsø, Norway; Abisko National Park, in Sweden; Rovaniemi, Finland; and pretty much anywhere in Iceland.
The best time of year to see the northern lights is between September and April, when the sky gets dark enough to see the aurora. (Far northern locales experience the midnight sun, or 24 hours of daylight in the summer.) The most action usually happens between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m., according to the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Check local weather forecasts as well, because you won't be able to spot the aurora through the clouds.
You can also monitor aurora forecasts from the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute and NOAA, which offers both three-day and 30-minute forecasts.
When you're planning an aurora trip don't worry too much about the full moon. While there are various articles online telling aurora hunters to steer clear of nights illuminated by a bright moon, I can personally attest that if the aurora is strong enough, it won't ruin your chances of seeing them. In fact, it can enhance your experience, by illuminating the landscape and allowing you to fully appreciate your surroundings.
Northern Lights vs the SOUTHERN LIGHTS (AND STEVE)
On Earth, the northern lights' counterpart in the Southern Hemisphere is the southern lights — they are physically the same and differ only in their location. As such, scientists expect them to occur simultaneously during a solar storm, but sometimes the onset of one lags behind the other.
"One of the more challenging aspects of nightside aurorae involves the comparison of the aurora borealis with the aurora australis," said Steven Petrinec, a physicist at the aerospace company Lockheed Martin who specializes in magnetospheric and heliospheric physics told Space.com.
"While some auroral emissions occur in both hemispheres at the same magnetic local time, other emissions appear in opposing sectors in the two hemispheres at different times — for example, pre-midnight in the Northern Hemisphere and post-midnight in the Southern Hemisphere," Petrinec told Space.com.
The hemispheric asymmetry of the aurora is due in part to the sun's magnetic field interfering with Earth's magnetic field, but research into the phenomenon is ongoing.
Another aurora-like occurrence on Earth is STEVE ("Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement"). Like the northern and southern lights, STEVE is a glowing atmospheric phenomenon, but it looks slightly different from its undulating auroral counterparts. "These emissions appear as a narrow and distinct arc, are typically purple in color and often include a green picket-fence structure that slowly moves westward," Petrinec said.
STEVE is also visible from lower latitudes, closer to the equator, than the auroras.
A 2019 study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters discovered that STEVE is the result of two mechanisms: The mauve streaks are caused by the heating of charged particles in the upper atmosphere, while the picket-fence structure results from electrons falling into the atmosphere. The latter process is the same driver of the aurora, making STEVE a special kind of aurora hybrid.
Auroras on other planets
Auroras occur on other planets, too — all that's required to make an aurora is an atmosphere and a magnetic field.
"Auroras have been seen in the atmospheres of all the gas giant planets, which is not surprising, since these planets all have robust magnetic fields," said Jeff Regester, an instructor of physics and astronomy at High Point University in North Carolina. "More surprisingly, auroras have also been discovered on both Venus and Mars, both of which have very weak magnetic fields."
Indeed, scientists have cataloged three different types of Martian auroras. One occurs only on the planet's dayside, another is a widespread nighttime feature fueled by strong solar storms and another is a much patchier nightside phenomenon.
The Hope Mars orbiter, the United Arab Emirates' first-ever interplanetary mission, managed to capture the discrete nocturnal aurora shortly after arriving at the Red Planet in early 2021. The probe's observations could help scientists better understand this mysterious phenomenon.
Jupiter's magnetic field is 20,000 times stronger than that of Earth, so the giant planet's auroras are far brighter than the ones that blaze in our skies. And the Jupiter lights aren't just driven by the solar wind: Most of the particles that cause the planet's auroras are blasted into space by its close-orbiting moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system.
Astronomers have even caught glimpses of apparent auroral activity in other solar systems. For example, two October 2021 studies reported the detection of radio waves emitted by multiple red dwarfs, stars smaller and dimmer than our own sun.
These radio waves are likely associated with a sort of "backward" aurora, one that flares up near stars and is driven by particles released by close-orbiting planets, researchers said.
"Our model for this radio emission from our stars is a scaled-up version of Jupiter and Io, with a planet enveloped in the magnetic field of a star, feeding material into vast currents that similarly power bright aurorae," Joseph Callingham, a radio astronomer at Leiden University in the Netherlands and the Dutch national observatory ASTRON and co-author on both new studies, said in a statement. "It's a spectacle that has attracted our attention from light-years away."
These feeder planets remain hypothetical at the moment; nobody has yet discovered any circling the red dwarfs that the team studied. But if Callingham and his colleagues are right, astronomers may have a powerful new planet-hunting technique at their disposal.
Auroras are expected to be relatively common in the skies of exoplanets as well. But we'll have to get better looks at these faraway worlds to see their light shows directly.
The history of the northern lights
Though it was Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei who coined the name "aurora borealis" in 1619 — after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek god of the north wind, Boreas — the earliest suspected record of the northern lights is in a 30,000-year-old cave painting in France.
Since that time, civilizations around the world have marveled at the celestial phenomenon, ascribing all sorts of origin myths to the dancing lights. One North American Inuit legend suggests that the northern lights are spirits playing ball with a walrus head, while the Vikings thought the phenomenon was light reflecting off the armor of the Valkyrie, the supernatural maidens who brought warriors into the afterlife.
Related: Aurora myths, legends and misconceptions
Early astronomers also mentioned the northern lights in their records. A royal astronomer under Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar II inscribed his report of the phenomenon on a tablet dated to 567 B.C., for example, while a Chinese report from 193 B.C. also notes the aurora, according to NASA.
The science behind the northern lights wasn't theorized until the turn of the 20th century. Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland proposed that electrons emitted from sunspots produced the atmospheric lights after being guided toward the poles by Earth's magnetic field. The theory would eventually prove correct, but not until long after Birkeland's 1917 death.
Photographing the northern lights
The northern lights are a popular target for budding photographers and it's easy to see why. Their colorful ribbons of light, dancing to the whims of Earth's magnetic field are a truly stunning sight. But aurora photography is not without its challenges. Low light, cold temperatures and the unpredictable nature of auroras make them a rather tricky subject.
That's why we have created a "Where and how to photograph the aurora" guide that includes the best techniques and camera settings to help you get started.
Speaking from experience, it is one of the most rewarding photography targets you can set your sights on. When the ribbons of light start dancing for you, the feeling of awe and wonder is truly extraordinary. I recommend using a remote camera trigger to capture your photos, that way you can line up your camera for the perfect shot, sit back, relax and enjoy. It also means you can keep your hands nice and warm in your pockets, poised on the trigger, rather than fumbling around in the cold with the camera's shutter button.
While it's so tempting to stand and take hundreds of photographs at a time, it's important to take a step back from your camera, look up, and just enjoy the wonders of the northern lights or southern lights as they dance above you. The depth and movement that your eyes can capture are second to none.
Additional resources
You can learn more about the northern lights at NASA's aurora page. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center provides a 30-minute aurora forecast. You can watch livestreams of the northern lights via Explore.org and Lights over Lapland's webcam page
If you're an avid aurora chaser or want to learn more about sightings all over the world, Aurorasaurus is a citizen science site where you can report your aurora sightings and also learn more about auroras with their informative blog.
If you want to read more about Kristian Birkeland, check out "The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis" (Vintage, 2002), by Lucy Jago. And you can keep up to date on NASA's sun-kissing Parker Solar Probe mission by following its blog.
Bibliography
Barton, K. "Legends of the northern lights," CBC News, Dec. 10, 2019. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/legends-of-the-northern-lights
Callingham J. et al. "The population of M dwarfs observed at low radio frequencies," Nature Astronomy, Vol. 5, December 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01483-0
NASA, "FAQ: How does the solar cycle affect Earth's climate?" https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/solar-events-news/Does-the-Solar-Cycle-Affect-Earths-Climate.html
NASA, "The history of auroras," 2006. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/auroras/aurora_history.html
Nishimura Y. et al. "Magnetospheric signatures of STEVE: Implications for the magnetospheric energy source and interhemispheric conjugacy," Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 46, Issue 11, April 2019. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082460
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Understand Light Pollution
If you have already understood and know how the aurora forecast work, the next thing you need to consider before driving out to photograph the Northern Lights is the light pollution 🚗
Light pollution is the name for the brightening of the night in the sky that is caused by us (humans) such as the street lights and city lights. To get a better scene for Northern Lights and spot them better you will need to find a dark place far from the city where you can see stars clearly. If you are a tourist in the Northern Lights countries finding a location might be scary for you but don’t worry there are many Lights pollution tools available online for you, you can simply search “Light pollution map” on a search engine and choose one that suits you.
Why avoid light pollution when hunting the Northern Lights?
The street lights and city lights create a hue over the city which makes it difficult to see the colour of the aurora when the aurora activity is not strong.
Therefore for a better photo shoot and better experience, it’s better to drive to the countryside and avoid light pollution! You can check the aurora strength easily on our aurora forecast app 📱
Know the basic camera setting
Before finding which smartphone’s camera suits you, it’s good to know the basic camera settings first! 📷
Aperture size
Aperture applies to the opening of the lens’s diaphragm through which light passes. As for the camera, the smaller the aperture is the larger the diaphragm will be and vice versa. In photography, the aperture is displayed as ƒ value. To photograph in a low light condition you will need the lowest ƒ value possible.
📷 Tips: To photograph the aurora it is recommended having ƒ 2.8 or lower.
Exposure
Exposure is the number of lights that reach the camera sensor when a picture is taken. Most smartphone camera these day doesn’t allow you to alter the exposure settings. There are many external camera apps available that allow you to set up this setting by yourself using the manual mode. Some external camera apps even allow you to set your exposure up to 30 seconds.
ISO
ISO measures the sensitivity of the image sensor. Most smartphones these days only allow you to adjust ISO up to 3200 for example the OnePlus 7T pro. However, the Huawei 30p let you alter it up to 409,600 (what a skyrocket numbers).
📷 Tips: To photograph the aurora, it’s good to start with 1600 and alter it more if the intensity is not bright enough. But! Be careful with the noise, the higher the ISO you alter the more noise you will have on your picture.
Best smartphone for Northern Lights photography
Since 2018 there have been numerous smartphones that help you taken Northern Lights pictures if you don’t have a camera. Here below is the list gathered by Dr. Sten F Odenwald an astronomer from NASA, these are the list of the smartphone releasing in the years 2019 and 2020 that astrophotographer has used and prove to work perfectly for astrophotography and low light condition photo.
How to choose the best phone camera for Northern Lights
Manual mode: You are able to manually set your camera when you have the manual mode.
Aperture size: The lower the aperture size the better to photograph the Northern Lights. You have a higher chance to capture them with a lower f/ value.
Resolution: All the phones we mentioned below have more than 12 megapixels which will give you a good resolution. But you should also be paying attention to the micron/µm as it will give you better quality when taking photos in a low-light condition. To choose the best µm is to have a bigger value. By having a higher pixel value you will have a better picture in a low light condition with less noise.
Check out the list and find out which one fits you best! 📱🧐
How to photograph aurora with a smartphone
Now you have already got a nice smartphone for your aurora night! Let’s take a look at the 101 guides to take Northern Lights picture with your smartphone!
Location research
Finding a good spot with low light conditions and a clear sky is the key when hunting the Northern Lights. Look at the light pollution and find places where it has the low light conditions and use the cloud coverage map on hello aurora app to see where the sky is open.
📷 Tips: with hello aurora app you can see where people spotted the Northern Lights in real-time. With this it will give you a hint on where the aurora is visible during that night.
📷 Tips: check out these articles and find the best place where our users see Northern Lights in Finland & Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Reykjavík.
Use tripod
To take a long exposure picture, the camera needs to stabilize well. Best to attach your phone to a tripod, but if you don't have one find a stone, wall, or anything that you can lay your camera on to.
Set your phone to manual mode
Set your phone to manual mode if possible. Alter the exposure near 10 seconds and ISO to 800 to start with and freely adjust it if the aurora’s intensity is not as bright as you want it to. Taking Northern Lights is very challenging as the aurora is always moving and sometimes it moves fast! Consider taking shorter exposure with lower ISO when this happens.
Having only a camera is enough, but let's see what these tools will make your life easier!
Flashlight 🔦
Most of the photography will be at night in a dark place so you need a red flashlight to see what you are doing and where you are walking. We don't want you to fall down the hill or step on thin ice!
Tripods 🤸🏻
A must thing to have when taking a long exposure picture. If you don’t have one, look around there might be some rock you can use for this time!
Warm clothes 🥶
Taking the Northern Lights picture required A LOT of patience! Make sure you dress warm enough for the negative temperature.
Hot drinks ☕️
Bringing tea, coffee, hot chocolate or any beverages that will keep your warm during the trip is always a good idea. Remember you will have to stay outside in the open with a drop temperature for hours. It will make your trip more enjoyable and romantic to have something to sip while watching the beautiful aurora in the sky!
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Aurora Borealis made a surprise trip down to the continental United States last week. Three experts weigh in on why it happened and whether it will happen again.
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Q: First things first — what are the Northern Lights? Why do we call them that? Where are they usually seen?
Chris Chaston (CC): The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are emissions of light from atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere stimulated by collisions with energetic electrons and ions streaming downward from near-Earth space. They are usually seen at high latitudes — above 60 degrees and during the night when the light becomes visible. They occur in an oval roughly centered around the poles. In the Southern Hemisphere they are referred to as the Aurora Australis.
Harald Frey (HF): There is a widespread misconception that aurora on Earth is generated by energetic particles coming directly from the sun. The real processes are more complicated. The sun continuously emits the solar wind, as a stream of energetic electrons and protons that carries electric and magnetic fields with it. The interaction of these fields with the Earth’s magnetic field distorts it and transfers energy into it. Our magnetic field cannot accumulate endless amounts of energy and has to release this excess energy. This energy release generates energetic electrons in the so-called auroral acceleration region about 6000 kilometers above ground. When these energetic electrons collide with the atoms and molecules of the upper atmosphere at about 100-200 km altitude, these atoms and molecules emit light that we consider as aurora. Very often we refer to is as just aurora or polar lights that occur in the north and south.
Q: Why do you think people are fascinated by the Northern Lights?
HF: You have to consider the aspect of surprise. You likely look up into the sky hundreds of times and nothing is happening, except for the occasional meteor. But when suddenly the whole sky lights up, changes color, and forms change and dance around, you are admiring what nature is capable of doing.
CC: Because it’s one of those things that ‘blows you away’ when you see it in full swing. It’s not just the light itself, but more how it moves or ‘dances’ — like a kaleidoscope in the sky, truly wonderful.
Q: Did you get a chance to see the lights over California this past weekend?
CC: I missed it on Friday night but I did try after sunset on Saturday from a high point in the Bay area. It was perhaps just a faint glow above the horizon to the North. I read of people driving up to Shasta on Friday who saw a good show late in the evening.
Q: Why were they visible in California over the past weekend, and as far south and east as Florida? Is that normal — or worrisome?
CC: There was a major geomagnetic storm over the weekend due to the shedding of matter and magnetic field from the Sun in the form of a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that collided with Earth, or more specifically Earth’s magnetic field. Under these circumstances Earth’s magnetic field gets compressed and the low latitude edge where those energetic particles stream downward to collide with the atmosphere moves southward in the Northern Hemisphere. This southward shift is related to the strength of the storm. The weekend’s storm was a particularly strong event such that the aurora could be seen from Northern California and the southern states. It’s not something to be especially worried about, but it can impact the power grid due to currents induced in electrical transmissions lines and radio communications may be disrupted due to variations in the upper atmosphere or more correctly the ionosphere.
HF: The impact of such geomagnetic storms on the ground is generally rather limited, but similar events in the past have caused damage to electric power lines and transformers. More worrisome is the potential damage to satellites in orbit around the Earth. The energetic electrons can damage the electronic components of satellites and make them unusable. One way to limit damage to satellites is to turn them off temporarily, which was actually done with the three THEMIS satellites around Earth that are managed by our UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. Many other satellite operators must have taken similar precautions.
Q: Some reports suggest that this may happen in the continental U.S. more frequently in the next few years. Do you agree with that? Why is that?
Yan Li (YL): Solar flares and CMEs as energetic solar activity are more frequent during the maximum of the solar cycle. These violent solar activity produce intense solar energetic electrons and ions. The Sun is on the rising phase of the solar cycle and approaching its activity maximum
soon. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect more frequent aurora sightings in the next few years.
CC: Solar cycle prediction is an evolving art and sometimes things don’t work out as expected, but around 11 years is the average and we are close to the peak now, I think. Here’s a link to the sunspot number charts that define where we are in the solar cycle: Solar Cycle Progression | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center.
On a short-term basis ‘hotspots’ on the Sun can stick around for a while, so with an average solar rotation period of 4 weeks there could be some increased auroral action in a little under a month from now.
Q: Why do the Northern Lights appear in different colors here than the usual green we see in photos from Alaska?
CC: The color of light that is seen is dependent on the atmospheric composition and the energy and type of colliding particle that stimulates the light emitted. The classic green aurora is due to energized electrons colliding with atomic oxygen and is the most common auroral emission reported. At lower latitudes, such as here in California, the downward streaming electrons which stimulate the light seen from the ground have a different distribution in energy than those observed at high latitudes and the aurora is only observed from the side looking northward, rather than from below. These factors lead to us observing different colors and mixtures of colors.
Q: Can they be seen by the naked eye? Why are iPhones so much better at capturing them?
CC: Certainly, the aurora is observed by the naked eye. Cameras with long exposure times and sensitive light sensors (CCD and CMOS) can capture faint aurora but the best way to view the Northern Lights for the amateur observer is with the naked eye.
HF: The human eye is most sensitive to green light, less to red, and even less to blue. The optical detectors of iPhones try to mimic the human eye sensitivity as best as possible but they are still more sensitive to red. Therefore a mix of blue/green/red will appear slightly different to the naked eye and on a picture taken by the phone.
Q: Is there any way to know when they will be visible near us? (Friends of mine now send me solar forecasts, but I have no idea how to interpret them!)
CC: Yes. I can suggest NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center’ at Homepage | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center that provides forecasts every day.
YL: The accuracy of Solar forecasts for flares and CMEs are improving, but it’s still very difficult. Even when a forecast of flare or CME is successful, the direction of the energetic electrons produced needs to be right to reach the earth. So, a direct forecast of auroral sightings is not simple. But when there are super strong flares (like X-class flares) and super fast (>1000km/s) CMEs, energetic electrons produced can span a large angle, sometimes almost in all directions around the Sun, in which cases we might be in luck for auroral activity while we might also be in 'luck' for blackouts and loss of satellite communications, using cell phones etc.
Q: If you really want to see the Northern Lights, should you wait for them to come to California, or where might you go?
CC: You might be waiting a long time to see it here again in California and even then, you will likely not see it at its best. If you want to see the aurora in all its glory, I would suggest booking into a hotel near Fairbanks, Alaska for a couple of weeks during mid-winter.
HF: Other good places are northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland and central Canada. You need a clear sky and as little moonlight as possible. There is aurora over Iceland, but this region is known for many cloudy days and coastal fog. The weather is more stable in inland regions, like Fairbanks, Alaska.
Q: What if you want to go somewhere warmer?
CC: You can also see aurora in the Southern Hemisphere. This past weekend I heard it was good from Hobart, Tasmania, and was supposed to be visible all the way up to Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, Australia, although I have not searched for images.
Q: When should I plan this kind of trip, in terms of timing around solar cycles?
CC: Aurora is observed throughout the solar cycle at high latitudes. I spent several weeks in Fairbanks in the winters of 1996 and 1997, i.e., around solar minimum, and saw some fantastic displays. So I would not be too concerned with the timing — just make sure there is plenty of darkness and as Harald pointed out it’s better if the moon is out of view.
HF: Last week you would not have seen the bright aurora from Fairbanks because the aurora was much too far south. May through August are bad times for aurora viewing from Alaska because the sun does not completely set in the far northern regions and the background light would have made it difficult (impossible?) to see aurora, even if it were there. If you want to have it warm while watching the Northern Lights, you have to stay in California and wait for the rare ~10-year event.
Q: When you look for the Northern Lights, what direction should you be looking in?
CC: This depends on where you are, but in the continental U.S. just looking north is a good start.
Chris Chaston has been studying the physics of auroral particle acceleration since arriving at UC Berkeley in 1996. This work has involved NASA’s FAST, POLAR, THEMIS and Van Allen Probes missions, the European Space Agency’s Cluster mission and Japan’s Reimei satellite as well as sounding rockets. His work on this topic has focused on the physics of Alfvén waves and how these waves can drive auroral arc formation through the acceleration of ions and electrons.
Harald Frey received his education in Germany and joined the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley in 1997. He has been working on the detection and analysis of optical phenomena in near-Earth space using cameras on satellites and on the ground. He was the instrument scientist for the Far Ultraviolet Imager on the NASA IMAGE mission that observed aurora, the U.S. project scientist for the Imager for Sprites and Upper Atmospheric Lightning (ISUAL), and instrument scientist for the Far Ultraviolet Imager on the NASA Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON). He is now retired.
Yan Li has been a research physicist at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory since 1999 and is an expert on solar coronal mass ejections that trigger aurora events. Before arriving at UC Berkeley more than 20 years ago, her work carried her from the Institute of Space Physics at the Space Academy in Beijing, China, the University of Sydney in Australia and Kyushu University in Japan.
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I first noticed the Aurora in 2012 when looking at some photos taken by a local photographer. I remember wondering what it was I looking at – the Northern lights in the South? Surely not! Since then I’ve taken hundreds of photos of the Aurora around Tasmania.
First off, it's important to look to the South if you want to have any success with photographing the Aurora. It's known as the Southern Lights for a reason – the clearest view South you can find is your best place to start.
When people ask me about photographing the Aurora, I'll often tell them to try and obtain a basic knowledge of how Auroras occur and when they are likely to occur first, as this is the best way to increase your chances of success. The Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, happen when the sun releases a massive burst of solar wind and magnetic fields into space. These solar winds carry particles which interact with the earth’s magnetic field, colliding to produce energy releases in the form of Auroras.
I look at websites like spaceweather.com as well as the Facebook Page Aurora Australis Tasmania ahead of a photography trip. Being on the front foot and not waiting for others to notify you often means can get photographs you may otherwise have missed. A basic knowledge of your local weather patterns and moon phases is handy too.
Conditions-wise, you should be looking for clear skies and cloudless nights as the Aurora rarely shows her beauty behind clouds. But don’t let a little cloud deter you, they often provide an interesting feature in a photo, complimenting the Aurora.
I see many images with a stunning Aurora sky that would have been the most spectacular photograph with an interesting foreground or landscape. So when setting up your shot, try to choose a landscape scene that would be interesting enough without the Aurora - you'll then be amazed at how good it looks with the Aurora in there too! It's not always easy, but it is worth scouting during the day to find a place you can go to directly when the Aurora is on, rather than driving around in the dark when you can’t see a thing.
Gear
There's a few things you'll need to have in your camera bag for a successful trip.
DSLR Camera – it doesn't have to be the best on the market, but it does need to be able to take long exposure photographs.
A tripod – again, not a necessity to have the most expensive, but generally the more you spend, the most stable they will be in windy conditions. I started off with a cheap light tripod, which was fine, but soon outgrew it.
Memory cards. The more space, the more images you can bring home.
Batteries – Obviously your camera will not work without one, and I highly recommend at least 2 or 3. Batteries go flat rather quickly in the cold and taking multiple long exposures will drain that energy. Trust me, it's not a pleasurable experience to be out photographing an Aurora that's dazzling away and you run out of battery.
A remote shutter release cable or wireless remote – It helps to reduce vibration through the camera from pressing the shutter button. I often use mine on continuous shooting mode, so I can sit back and enjoy the Aurora whilst my camera and remote are doing all the work! You can also use the self timer mode (2 sec) so once you press the shutter button the camera waits 2 seconds to capture the exposure.
Warm clothes – if you are warm and comfortable you will be happy, and so will your images. If you become cold and miserable, your images will suffer. Believe me it is not a fun experience sitting there freezing when a couple of coats, thermals, beanie and gloves are sitting at home doing nothing.
Head Torch or Torch – It is dark at night, so bring one along to see where you are walking in the dark, as well as illuminate foregrounds (light paint) and to see your camera dials if they need adjusting.
Remember to have your gear ready at all times with your batteries charged. Nothing is more annoying than a great Aurora display and you are at home charging batteries and missing it.
Camera settings
I suggest you select manual mode, which allows you to adjust aperture and your desired shutter speed. Use your tripod for stability and your remote cable release to operate the shutter or self timer. Shoot in RAW, and if you can, use a wide angle lens. The advantage of a wide angle is it allows you to fit more of the Aurora and landscape into your image.
With photographing the night sky, you want to let in as much light as you can. For this reason, the widest possible aperture is best (the lowest f-stop number). Typically this will be f2.8 to f4, depending on which lens you choose or own. There are prime lenses that stop down to f1.4!
When setting your ISO, you'll need to make a call depending on what levels of noise your camera can handle. The higher level the better for more light. As a rule it’s generally around 1600-3200. Any moonlight will lower the ISO as there is natural light to begin with. Adjust it when you're in the field for the best results.
As the Aurora is moving constantly, the faster the shutter speed you choose the more detail you will capture. I like to start at around 10-15 seconds, although depending on which lens you use, you may need 15 to 30 seconds. This will still capture the Aurora, although loss of detail and trailing stars may affect the image quality.
To ensure everything is sharp, set both the camera body and lens to manual. Then, set your lens to infinity (most lenses have the infinity symbol on the focus ring). If the moon is out you can check focus using the moon, or a bright object in the distance. It's even easier if your camera has live view - zoom in 10x on a bright star, then adjust focus manually until the star is sharp.
White balance is often the forgotten setting. It's a personal preference, as the Aurora is not always visible to the naked eye – so set it to your tastes. My preferred choice is Kelvin 3850. It's what I believe gives the closest colour balance to the Auroras greens and reds. A lower value seems too cold and higher tends to be too warm.
Finally, always tell someone where you're going. It's dark, and accidents can happen. Shoot with a friend or two, not only for the company. Safety in numbers.
Remember you won’t see the Aurora sitting on the couch at home, so get out there amongst it! The most important thing is to enjoy being out on dark, cold nights. I have memories of so many great nights as I was prepared and enjoyed myself. An Aurora sighting will leave you speechless and wanting to see another and another!
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Astro-landscape photography is one of my favorite styles of photography and it has become a very popular style for photographers of all skill levels. Simply put, it means capturing the night sky in a landscape setting. The “night sky” however, can involve a number of different subjects; the milky way, meteor showers, the moon, comets, and constellations. I enjoy photographing all of these, but for me, there is one phenomenon that is the crown jewel of night photography, and that is the aurora. Unfortunately, it is also the most frustrating subject to try and capture. All of the other celestial subjects are quite predictable. With a bit of research, it is easy to figure out exactly where and when they will appear in the night sky. The northern lights are far less predictable, and even though forecasting has improved in recent years the forecasts are not always accurate (hmmm… sounds like the weather!).
The What, Where and When
The aurora is caused by explosions on the surface of the sun called coronal mass ejections. These large expulsions of plasma and electrically charged particles from the sun’s corona can travel great distances in space and eventually collide with the earth’s magnetic field. Most are deflected, but some are captured by the magnetic field and driven down toward the poles where they collide with molecules in the atmosphere. These molecules enter an ‘excited’ state and begin to glow. Oxygen molecules tend to glow green, while nitrogen glows purple, pink and red. The characteristic pillars and curtains of light are caused by the lines of force in the magnetic field. The strength of the CME will determine the intensity of the aurora. Geomagnetic activity is measured using the Kp Index, a scale that goes from 0 to 9. The greater the CME, the greater the kP value and the more intense the resulting aurora will be.
Since solar storms are somewhat random it can be difficult to predict when the aurora will occur. Several apps and websites exist that can improve your chance of seeing the northern (or southern) lights. My preferred ones are;
• App – My Aurora & Alerts (Android and iOS)
• Websites – Soft Serve News
Your chances of seeing a good display increases at higher latitudes. Alaska, northern Canada, Iceland and Norway are popular destinations for those wishing to witness the northern lights. Although the aurora is not seasonal, the longer nights of winter can be a great time to plan a trip to these locations. At these latitudes the aurora can be seen at Kp2 and Kp3, which is fairly common. A solar storm is needed in order to view the northern lights at more southerly latitudes. I live at 45 degrees north and require at least Kp5 in order to view the aurora and even at that level they are rather faint. At Kp7 the aurora can be viewed in the northern U.S. Extreme storms of Kp8 and Kp9 are quite rare, but the resulting displays are incredible to witness… and to photograph.
Viewing and Photographing the Aurora
With all night sky photography there are certain things that will increase your chances of success. First and foremost is the need to be in a dark sky area. The aurora cannot compete with the artificial light in urban areas. Of course, moonlight can also interfere with your viewing. And nothing is more frustrating than to have a blanket of clouds covering you when you know the lights are dancing in the sky, so check out weather forecasts and satellite images. As well, be prepared to wait. Even if the sky conditions are perfect it is not unusual for the aurora to wane for a period of time during a solar storm. Also, keep in mind that the aurora is never as bright and colourful to the naked eye as it is in photographs. Our cameras can see the night sky in ways that we just can’t.
Camera Settings When I first started my journey into astro-landscape photography I clearly recall being intimidated by which camera settings I should use when shooting at night. I quickly discovered that once you know the settings for your camera/lens combination they hardly ever change. This is because once it’s dark out you can shoot for hours under identical lighting conditions. This certainly applies for most situations where I am photographing the milky way. Unfortunately, when it comes to photographing the aurora, things aren’t quite that simple. The intensity of the northern lights can change dramatically through the night, or from one display to the next. As such there isn’t a specific formula that you can use, unlike for general astro shooting. The basics of night sky photography is beyond the scope of this article, so if you are new to this style of photography check out the following, Astrophotography 101.
With extra light hitting your sensor you can get away with shorter shutter speeds and lower ISO settings. How much will depend on the situation, but generally I try to keep the shutter speed between 5 and 10 seconds. The pillars and curtains of light can move fairly quickly and with longer shutter speeds they will blur together and create a ‘mushy’ feel to the image.
As for gear, I usually use the OM SYSTEM OM-1, although all of the cameras in the OM SYSTEM line-up are quite capable of capturing the beauty of the night sky. Your choice of lens will have a bigger impact on your image. My three favorite lenses for shooting at night are the M.Zuiko 8mm F1.8 PRO Fisheye, the 12mm F2, and the 17mm F1.2 PRO. They are all faster lenses with a wide field of view. A lens with a maximum aperture of f/2.8 or greater will work, but you will need to increase your ISO, shutter speed, or both. The chart below illustrates my typical settings when shooting with the OM-1 and 12mm F2 for both the milky way and the aurora.
Milky Way Aurora Shutter Speed 15s 5 - 8s ISO 3200 640 - 1600 Aperture f/2 f/2 White Balance 3800K 3800K Noise Reduction Off On
As mentioned there is some variability in my settings when photographing the aurora because each display is different. For my milky way shots, I keep noise reduction off because I stack images in post to help reduce noise. This is not as effective when shooting the aurora so I ensure the NR is on. Make sure to take a test shot and examine it carefully in the viewfinder, especially to make sure that the stars are in focus. If your camera has Starry Sky AF, be sure to use it.
Once you have the best settings dialed in for the conditions, and you’ve taken a couple of test shots, it’s time to compose that killer shot.
Composition
Now comes the fun part, and for me, the most important part. After each major aurora event there will be a flood of images on social media. Getting yours to stand out will depend in large part on how you compose the shot, more specifically what you put in your foreground. I view photographing the northern lights in the same way as I look at capturing a spectacular sunset. The colors make a great backdrop, but it is your foreground that will make or break the shot. A flat horizon with a sky full of color may show off the beauty of the aurora, but makes for a rather uninteresting and forgettable photograph.
Keep the following in mind;
• Choose a location with one or more points of interest. A silhouetted tree, a mountain peak, a reflection in a tree-lined lake, an abandoned farm house – these are all great foregrounds that will add interest and staying power to your aurora photo.
• Know your location and scout out possible options during the day. It can be surprisingly difficult to find that really cool tree in the middle of field when it’s dark out.
• For some subjects a bit of light painting or low-level lighting might help bring out some interesting details.
• Have one or two backup locations in mind if your primary spot isn’t working out as you imagined it would.
Post-Processing
Every image of the night sky will require some post-processing in order to bring out the details. When it comes to my photos of the aurora I use a three-step approach. Using Adobe Lightroom Classic I first apply some basic global adjustments, then I apply a mask to the sky and make adjustments that will best bring out the details and colours in the aurora. Finally, I will copy and invert that mask and make adjustments to the foreground. In some instances, I will finish it off by making a few more refinements to the overall image. The screenshots below illustrate the process used for the very first image in this article.
Final Thoughts and Images
The surface of the sun is full of intense activity; sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections. This activity fluctuates in intensity on an 11-year solar cycle. 2025 marks the solar maximum. That means that the aurora should increase in frequency and intensity until that time and gradually decrease after that for a few years before increasing again. I have found that capturing the northern lights is one of the most rewarding experiences that I have had as a photographer. It can be incredibly frustrating when the conditions prevent them from being seen, or worse, to find out that I have slept through an incredible display, but that just gets me more excited for the next one. And there will always be a next one.
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“It is the responsibility of artists to pay attention to the world, pleasant or otherwise, and to help us live respectfully in it.” Robert Adams
Like many of you, I was delighted to hear about the Aurora Borealis last weekend. I’d just flown home from a week-long trip in Philadelphia, so we spent Friday night vegging out and watching television. I was beat, and Kristen and I turned in before ten o’clock. Since I’m connected to so many photographers, I started seeing images from around the world appear in my Instagram timeline when I woke up on Saturday morning. I was immediately kicking myself for having missed the Northern Lights. But I was happy, too, because it always tickles me to see communal creativity on display like this.
I invited the folks in the FlakPhoto HQ channel to share their Northern Lights pictures and was charmed by the snapshots EJ Hassan sent on Saturday. I asked if we could show them in the newsletter and if she would tell me more about the pictures and her work. She emailed on Sunday with a touching note about what inspired her photographs, and, to be honest, she caught me by surprise.
Photography contains multitudes, and there is frequently more than meets the eye. EJ graciously agreed to publish her story here, and I know many of you will appreciate her sentiments. I’ll let her take it from here.
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Hey, Andy, I appreciate your interest in my photography. It means so much to have others like yourself connect with something I have captured in an image. I love your newsletter and love seeing what captures your eye and heart.
Saturday night here in Melbourne, Australia, was extraordinary. It was special because we witnessed this remarkable phenomenon, Aurora Australis, in the sky. After a friend sent me a message, I quickly piled my family into the car, knowing I would be in awe seeing this. I immediately knew we needed this etched into our Mother’s Day memories forever.
You see, I was diagnosed with early onset stage IV bowel cancer last November at just 41 years of age. It was a shock, and it has been a brutal six months of treatment and a lot of unknowns. I was in perfectly good health and had no family history. Reading my caption along with these photos on my Instagram might help make a little more sense having this context. Those touched by cancer, either personally or by someone close to them, will know what a Stage IV diagnosis and prognosis means. It's a scary and challenging conversation, and we are still navigating with 14-year-old twin boys. Life becomes very fragile; there are big, vulnerable emotions and a sense of living life just for now.
For the past six months, I have been searching high and low for signs, signs that there is something greater happening in the invisible layers we live and breathe in this very confusing world, and there have been many, many that have gotten me through some of the hardest days I could have imagined but am sadly living. I told my husband I wanted our Mother's Day weekend to be memorable for my boys this year. We went on a star-gazing adventure with my sister and her husband. It was unforgettable — a magical feast of colors in our sky! Our world and universe are etched in our hearts forever.
I have been a photographer forever but decided to pursue it seriously in the last five years. I returned to university, studied photography, and decided art would be my focus. Since my diagnosis, I have had to stop working — but not the art. I’m intuitive in my approach, attracted to the process, and celebrate imperfections and experimentation. Photography has become necessary; it has always been about how I see and experience the world, a chance to learn something new and gain a different perspective.
Now, it is a much-needed escape, a way to connect with the natural world, collaborate with those who see the world and photography in a multi-layered and deep experience, and most importantly, a way for me to make sure memories and legacies are made for my sons, husband, sisters, mother and those who share in their own experience of loss, grief, love, and hope. This means piling into the car close to midnight the night before Mother's Day because I want these pictures to mean more than just the photograph; I want my sons to feel and remember those moments of us looking into the sky together every single Mother's Day.
Thank you again, Andy. I hope these words are okay. This connection with you tonight has finished off a beautiful weekend of meaningful memories, ones that have taken my attention away from the physical and emotional effects of cancer and treatment. I am forever grateful.
Thank you, EJ, for being so open and generous with your experience. What a beautiful point of view. Art really can help.
I experienced something similar twenty years ago when I was 26 years old, a months-long cancer experience. That summer, I started dabbling on the internet and learned how to blog. Not long after, I launched FlakPhoto. The two are intertwined.
Everyone is different, but I think I can identify with EJ in some ways. I always say photography is good for you. Her story is inspiring because it reminds us to focus on putting art-making at the center of life's challenges. It’s a practice we can share with the people we love.
I hope you appreciated EJ’s story as much as I did. If it moved you, please leave us a comment. I know she would love to hear from you.
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EJ Hassan is based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. She lives and works on the land of the Bunurong/Boonwurrung people and brings over two decades of teaching experience to her exploration of identity, memory, and the complexities of womanhood, motherhood, and youth.
Through her lens, EJ delves into themes of lineage, legacy, and diverse perspectives, intricately intertwining personal and collective histories. Her work captures intimate moments and relational encounters with compassion and empathy, reflecting on the enduring impact of history and heritage while celebrating the richness of human perceptions and understanding of the world.
Collaborative in her approach, she draws inspiration from lived experiences and fosters mutual respect with her subjects. Her art bridges disparate vantages, highlighting the beauty of embracing multiplicity and the profound impact of individual and collective narratives on shaping our shared humanity.
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EJ reminded me that all we have is the present moment and that photography is a way to connect with our awareness and the people we love. She emailed again today:
Photography has always been about the process for me, way before cancer. Now, it is heightened in a new way because overthinking is ultimately removed when dealing with such a harsh reality of illness, death, family, and children. Of course, I want a beautiful and thoughtful photograph at the end. Still, I want something more out of this, especially when sharing an image with the world — the relational encounter is of utmost importance, along with creating memories and a legacy. These are all closely tied to what I photograph, and the threads are throughout my work.
I would love more people to read her story and see her photography. Please share this post if it resonates with you. Take care of yourselves, friends. Be well.
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If you missed the display of Northern Lights over the past weekend, keep two things in mind: It was great but not as great as pictures make it seem, and there’s a pretty good chance you can see it again over the next few months.
The Northern Lights, as well as the Southern Lights on the other end of the planet, are caused when the sun throws off charged particles that interact with various portions of the atmosphere. The sun goes through a roughly 11-year cycle in which its magnetic field shifts position due to the movement of the electrically charged gases that make up the ball of flame.
In the middle of this 11-year cycle, we hit the “solar maximum” when the most particles are thrown off, meaning auroras are most frequent and strongest. The current cycle started in 2019 so we’re in this maximum now and will be through the fall, which explains why there’s a good possibility of seeing more atmospheric luminosity over the next few months.
NOAA has a website that predicts where the Northern Lights (and Southern Lights in case you’re going to New Zealand) will be seen over the following 30 minutes.
Incidentally, the solar cycle is beloved of climate change deniers who want to blame it for our bad weather, but those who understand the topic say this is wishful thinking. Solar bursts can endanger satellites – the weekend display disrupted some John Deere navigational systems used in tractors, leaving farmers unable to plant crops –but they aren’t heating up the ocean, multiplying tornadoes or spreading drought and floods.
The colors seen in auroras depend on which elements are being heated by the incoming solar particles. Nitrogen turns blue or pink and oxygen turns green, although astronomers say a really energetic aurora will excite oxygen that is very high up in the atmosphere, producing a bright scarlet.
Before we go further, a quick reminder from high school biology about our eyes. As you may recall, our retinas have two kinds of light-sensing cells: rods and cones.
Rods are very sensitive to light but don’t see color. They are located around the edge of the retina, which is why you can see things better in very dim light by looking slightly to one side of them. Cones can see color and are in the middle of the retina, but they’re relatively weak.
As a result, it is quite possible for our rods to detect the light patterns of an aurora, the spikes and pillars and the pulsing bands that sweep across the entire sky, without our cones detecting any of the colors. In that case, the aurora will look pale white, like high clouds illuminated by a full moon.
Cameras are much more sensitive than our eyes so they pick up far more of the aurora colors than we can see. This is particularly true for modern digital cameras. So the pictures show what the eye might have seen.
As more than one person commented this weekend, the aurora was the exact opposite of the solar eclipse. The eclipse looked astonishing in person but most photos of it were disappointing, while the aurora was fine to look at, but the photos were much better.
Either way, they’re both worth seeing and photographing.
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This is a short-term forecast of the location and intensity of the aurora. This product is based on the OVATION model and provides a 30 to 90 minute forecast of the location and intensity of the aurora. The forecast lead time is the time it takes for the solar wind to travel from the L1 observation point to Earth.
The two maps show the North and South poles of Earth respectively. The brightness and location of the aurora is typically shown as a green oval centered on Earth’s magnetic pole. The green ovals turn red when the aurora is forecasted to be more intense. The sunlit side of Earth is indicated by the lighter blue of the ocean and the lighter color of the continents. Aurora can often be observed somewhere on Earth from just after sunset or just before sunrise. The aurora is not visible during daylight hours. The aurora does not need to be directly overhead but can be observed from as much as a 1000 km away when the aurora is bright and if conditions are right.
The aurora is an indicator of the current geomagnetic storm conditions and provides situational awareness for a number of technologies. The aurora directly impacts HF radio communication and GPS/GNSS satellite navigation. It is closely related to the ground induce currents that impact electric power transition.
For many people, the aurora is a beautiful nighttime phenomenon that is worth traveling to arctic regions just to observe. It is the only way for most people to actually experience space weather.
These links provide a discussion of the aurora phenomena and tips for the best opportunities to view aurora at various locations around the world.
The OVATION (Oval Variation, Assessment, Tracking, Intensity, and Online Nowcasting) model is an empirical model of the intensity of the aurora developed at the Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory by Patrick Newell and co-workers1. The model uses the solar wind velocity and interplanetary magnetic field measured at the L1 orbit position at 1.6 million km (1 million miles) upstream from earth as input and calculates three types of electron precipitation and the proton precipitation which strongly correlate with the aurora. An estimate of aurora viewing probability can be derived by assuming a linear relationship to the intensity of the aurora. This relationship was validated by comparison with data from the Ultraviolet imager (UVI) instrument on the NASA Polar satellite(2).
On occasion, the input solar wind data are either contaminated or unavailable. In those instances, an alternative estimate of the solar wind forcing, based on the current Kp geomagnetic index is used to drive the OVATION model. When this occurs, there is no forecast lead time.
For more information on the OVATION model and aurora products, see:
Newell, P. T., T. Sotirelis, and S. Wing (2009), Diffuse, monoenergetic, and broadband aurora: The global precipitation budget, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A09207, doi:10.1029/2009JA014326(link is external).
Machol, J. L., Green., J. C., Redmon, R. J., Viereck, R. A., Newell, P. T., (2012), Evaluation of OVATION Prime as a forecast model for visible aurorae, Space Weather, 10, 3, doi.org/10.1029/2011SW000746
In 2009, Newell et. al., developed the OVATION model.
In 2011, NOAA (NCEI and SWPC) developed a real-time version of the OVATION model to forecast the location and intensity of the aurora. Machol and Redmon (NCEI) developed the real-time ovation model. Viereck (SWPC) implemented the model and developed the graphical products to run in realtime to create aurora forecasts.
In 2013, Newell upgraded the OVATION Prime model so that it would more accurately capture large geomagnetic storms. The original model, based solely on DMSP data, was only reliable to Kp of 7. By adding data from the NASA TIMED GUVI instrument, Newell et al., were able to expand the model to include the larger storm values of Kp of 8 and 9.
In 2016, NOAA SWPC shared the operational OVATION code (written in IDL) with the UK Met Office in the UK. The UK Met Office converted the OVATION model from IDL to Python.
In 2020, NOAA SWPC implemented the new version of the OVATION Prime model into operations. This version has been dubbed OVATION 2020.
The Auroral Forecast product is based on the OVATION Prime model developed by P. Newell at the Johns Hopkins, Applied Physics Laboratory.
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The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are incredible light shows caused by collisions between electrically charged particles and Earth's atmosphere.
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The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are incredible light shows caused by collisions between electrically charged particles and Earth’s atmosphere.
Aurora Borealis- meaning “northern dawn” – are targeted by many enthusiasts across the world. These curtains of colored light which appear in the northern hemisphere are visible in the middle of the night, and the dead of winter.
These beautiful events have inspired stories from prehistoric times, and only recently, we have just begun to study them scientifically. These events also occur in the southern hemisphere; they are called Aurora Australis – southern lights, and this phenomenon also occurs on other planets. With that being said, here are some fascinating facts about aurora borealis.
The origin of Auroras
Auroras are caused by collisions between fast-moving electrons from the magnetosphere – a region of space controlled by Earth’s magnetic field – and oxygen and nitrogen molecules in Earth’s upper atmosphere.
The sun is responsible for these charged particles. Electrons transfer a part of their energy in the molecules when they collide, and this transfer excites them.
These excited molecules eventually return to their non-excited state by releasing photons, or light particles. When large numbers of these collisions are present, they create enough light for us to see.
They can have different colors
Certain atoms create different colors. When it comes to the color of the polar lights, it all depends on whether electrons collide with oxygen or nitrogen, and how energetically.
This change in energy has a specific value, and the resulting photon thus has a particular color or wavelength. When it comes to the usual green light, oxygen emits greenish-yellow or even red light. Nitrogen, on the other hand, often gives a blue light, if these colors blend, they result in purple, pink, and white.
Oxygen and nitrogen can also emit ultraviolet light. Our eye can’t detect these lights; only special cameras on satellites can capture them. The analysis of these different colors can give us results, for example, in the form of energy levels of the electrons, which bombard our atmosphere and create the aurora.
Auroras can occur at any time
They mostly occur in high altitudes near the poles; this is due to the fact that electrons travel along magnetic field lines, and the Earth’s magnetic field lines come out and go into the Earth near its poles.
However, some auroras have been detected as far as Mexico. In certain areas such as Alaska or Greenland, auroras are visible throughout the year.
We have just begun probing them
NASA launched the Auroral Spatial Structures Probe in 2015 into the northern lights. This probe carried seven instruments to study the electromagnetic energy that can heat the thermosphere during auroral events.
The thermosphere is the second-highest layer of the atmosphere. Astronauts frequently see and photograph the aurora.
We’ve witnessed them for a long time
One of the earliest datings of auroras comes from the Babylonian clay tablet that recorded the observations made by the official astronomers of King Nebuchadnezzar II in 567 BCE. They noted an unusual red glow.
Famous astronomers such as Galileo Galilei or Pierre Gassendi also witnessed these lights in action in 1621, while a reference from the 500s by Gregory of Tours has been discovered.
Some believe that the earliest recorded sightings of the auroras are represented on some 30.000-year-old cave paintings. In any case, auroras also occur around the southern magnetic pole as well.
They are called the aurora australis and they sometimes appear as mirror images of the aurora borealis at both poles.
Sunspot activity affects the light
The truth is, the lights of the aurora are only the end product of a complex interaction between the sun and Earth. Space weather, or activity in the sun’s upper atmosphere – it extends throughout the solar system – includes radiation and plasma created by the sun.
This can affect Earth’s geomagnetic field and thus the aurora themselves. During high solar sunspot activity, auroras appear to be more frequent and spectacular.
These events occur on an 11-year cycle. Some spectacular displays were noted during August and September 1859, and February 11, 1958, when supposedly the lights reached 1250 mi / 2011 km wide, circling the Arctic from Oregon to New Hampshire.
Another notable recording is of the aurora, which occurred on March 13, 1989, when the sky reportedly turned into a vivid red. This was seen from Europe, and in North America, and as far south as Cuba.
Auroras inspired many legends
Some civilizations considered them the spirits of the dead. Other North American cultures believed that the auroras were a narrow, torch-lit pathway to guide departed souls to heaven.
The Iglulik saw the auroras as a single powerful spirit who assisted shamans in their rituals. In Roman times, and particularly in the 16th century Europe, people viewed these displays of light, especially the red ones, as frightening omens.
Tourist attraction phenomena
Understandably, auroras, especially the ones occurring in the northern hemisphere, have received much attention. The best viewing of the northern lights occurs in high northern latitudes during the winter.
If the weather is favorable, sightings could last for three to four hours around midnight. These lights can reach heights of 620 mi / 997km, but their average height is usually 60 mi / 96.5 km.
Some people actually claim to hear the sounds of auroras. Though the upper atmosphere where the lights occur is too thin to carry sound waves, and too far away, some have reportedly heard whooshing or crackling noises when there is an aurora in the sky.
Currently, at least one research detected audible sounds associated with auroras, but recently, more research groups claim to have recorded sounds from the lights.
This may be a marketing strategy, but other researches have noted that covering someone’s eyes made the sound disappear. This suggested that the overstimulated visual centers could cause the perception of sound in the brain or by energetic phenomena associated with the aurora.
Others theorize that the perception of auroral noises is self-induced, but no general consensus has been reached on whether these sounds actually exist.
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When the aurora australis comes calling, it’s cameras at the ready. Here’s award-winning photographer Luke Tscharke’s top tips for capturing the perfect image.
On Thursday, 4 November, southern Australia was treated to an incredible spectacle, a stunning display of aurora australis thanks to a G3 geomagnetic storm*. The aurora was so strong that it was visible through twilight meaning that intrepid aurora chasers didn’t even have to wait until the skies were completely dark. The conditions to witness the aurora were perfect, there was very little cloud cover, clear skies with very little air pollution, and it was a new moon. This provided very dark clear skies allowing the light show to be witnessed without obstruction.
Of course, you can have ideal viewing conditions but be in a location that will make the aurora hard to observe. Being as far south geographically as you can with a clear view of the horizon will set you up for success. A location with low light pollution will also help, although for a big show like this one the aurora was easily visible in the inner Hobart suburbs.
Fortunately I was on Bruny Island running a photographic workshop and had sufficient notice to get into position by sunset. I chose to photograph from the Cape Bruny Lighthouse, which I consider to be the southernmost highly accessible location to photograph the southern lights in Australia. Standing under the 183-year-old lighthouse at the top of the hill, the view south from the Cape is unobstructed to Antarctica.
The exciting show kicked-off through the twilight and gradually grew in energy, bursting into a sequence of curtains and beams from 9.30pm. Later in the evening the aurora was seen to pulse with green bursts of colour above the auroral arc, a relatively unusual occurrence. Generally the aurora works up over a period of time to a peak before it gradually subsides, however this event was beyond spectacular for most of the night and into the early hours of the morning. It was an event that aurora chasers will be talking about for years to come.
How to capture the aurora
Have the right equipment: You’ll need a sturdy tripod to keep the camera still, a camera that is good at taking photos in low light, and a lens that has a wide aperture to let a lot of light into the sensor. Newer mobile phones are capable of capturing the aurora so don’t be afraid to give that a try. A warm jacket and a hot drink are also not a bad idea.
You’ll need to find a location that has little light pollution, that faces south and has a relatively clear view of the horizon. Also make sure it’s safe to be there at night.
Check apps or Facebook groups for reports of auroral activity, nothing beats a confirmed sighting to let you know that it’s time to shoot. Check out the app SpaceWeatherLive or the Facebook Group ‘Aurora Australis Tasmania’ for aurora information.
Set the camera to manual mode, the lens to the lowest f-number (widest aperture), ISO to between 1600-6400, and the shutter speed from 5-15 seconds.
Your lens will need to be in manual focus as most cameras can’t focus in the dark. Manually focus on a star using the focus magnification function of the camera to get it as sharp as possible.
Take some test shots and adjust the shutter speed or ISO to get the best exposure. Magnify the captured image and check that it is sharp. If not, keep adjusting it until it is.
You can set your camera to continuously take images using an intervalometer so you can turn your images into a time lapse. This also lets you step away from your camera and enjoy the show!
*What is a geomagnetic storm?
Such storms are disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field that can result in many hours of vibrant auroras at the northern and southern reaches of the planet.
These storms often occur when a coronal mass ejection (CME) or a persistent, high-speed solar wind stream sweeps past Earth, causing the magnetic field to become unsettled. If the unsettled conditions persist long enough, a geomagnetic storm is possible.
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There’s a once-in-a-generation display of the aurora happening today (maybe through this week). Here in Colorado, dancing lights are visible with the naked eye. It’s a good time to revisit this guest article from Ajit Menon with all the info you need for photographing them!
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This article is intended to be a general starter guide to photographing the Northern lights. The title is perhaps misleading as the “Northern Lights” are not just a phenomenon of the Northern hemisphere but also occur in the Southern Hemisphere. In the North, it’s generally referred to as the Aurora Borealis whereas in the south, it goes by Aurora Australis. However, my experience has generally been shooting the Northern Lights in Norway and Iceland, and this is what I will now expand upon.
1) Where to photograph the Northern Lights
The Northern Lights are best visible in the high latitude regions of the Earth, generally north of the Arctic Circle. Of late, the most popular places to photograph this phenomenon have been in Iceland, Scandinavian countries like Norway, Finland and Sweden and Greenland. As you can see in the above image which is downloaded from www.spaceweather.com, you can see the aurora oval (as of March 18, 2015) in the Northern Hemisphere – in this image, parts of northern Canada and the northernmost fringes of Scandinavia and Russia seem to have the best display.
My own experiences have been photographing these in Iceland as well as in the Lofoten Islands of northern Norway although Greenland has also become popular in recent years and there are lots of photo tours geared toward Northern Lights photography to all these destinations.
2) When to photograph the Northern Lights
The Northern Lights are typically visible year-round; however, as is obvious, they can only be seen or photographed when the sky is relatively dark. Because of the incredible fluctuation of day-night lengths in the Arctic latitudes, the period entering fall (around mid-September) when you begin to once-again have 10-12 hour nights and longer until early spring (early March) are the best periods to photograph this phenomenon.
Obviously, these periods can be quite cold so high up North so the entire process can be quite challenging occasionally. The weather can also run amok but this is the fun of it – the challenge and the wait can be quite rewarding.
But speaking of the weather, it is very necessary to always keep an out for it. Oftentimes, the aurora predictions are high but cloud cover can spoil the fun and prevent you from seeing any of it. The picture below is of the well-known Gulfoss waterfall in Iceland. As you can see, I caught a glimpse of the aurora through the thick cloud cover. The cloud movement was quite swift and within the next 10-15 minutes or so, there wasn’t much shooting left to do. However I was quite pleased with this photo and I feel the cloud cover helps create a dramatic visual opening and complements the form of the waterfall quite nicely. A clear sky may have resulted in a very typical image and the aurora activity wasn’t really that strong that evening. This just goes to show how even the negatives can sometimes be quite beneficial if you are in the right place at the right time.
But the above image is the exception to the rule. Cloud cover can invariably threaten a good night’s photography and even with high aurora activity, sometimes you need just a bit of luck to be able to view it at all. It’s helpful to note a few online websites can be used to give you a rough forecast for Aurora activity and regular weather. In Iceland for example, the national meteorological office http://en.vedur.is/weather/forecasts/aurora/ is a good source. The website not only shows you the cloud cover across Iceland (green is heavy cloud cover, white is clear), it also shows you the scale of Aurora activity on any given day. A scale of 1-2 is quite mild and you may see some hazy movement across the sky. 3 is moderate but 4 onwards represents quite a lot of activity and you can see it quite clearly with the naked eye. Incredibly, this past St Patrick’s day solar storm created auroral activity of the magnitude of almost 9. The activity was so off the charts that it was supposedly visible even down here in New York, albeit quite faint. I was quite jealous of a few photographers I follow on facebook who were posting the most insane aurora photos I had ever seen in Iceland.
The above is a screengrab from vedur.is showing the aurora forecast.
Other than the Icelandic met office, a few other good sources to check aurora forecasts are:
– http://www.yr.no (Norwegian met office)
– http://kho.unis.no
– http://www.spaceweather.com
3) How to photograph the Northern lights
And now we come to the meat of the matter. How do we photograph this? The essentials are quite simple – a good fast wide-angle lens, a DSLR/mirrorless camera capable of good high-ISO quality and a good sturdy tripod.
3.1) Camera
Most modern digital cameras are becoming quite capable of shooting relatively clean pictures at ISOs of 1600 and above. Generally, cameras with full-frame sensors will give you the best quality at high ISOs, though the latest breed of smaller sensor cameras are no slouches either. I’ve shot a lot of auroras with my older Nikon D800 at ISO 3200, and if exposed correctly, the images are quite clean to my taste. Newer generations like the D850 and Z8 only improve upon that performance.
Lens choice is also greatly impacted by type of camera used since the same lens on a crop-factor sensor will not be as wide as on a full frame camera.
3.2) Lens
Speaking of lenses, any fast lens is usable, but generally, the wider angle lenses are best as they give you enough “reach” into the sky to capture as much of the activity as possible. In the two images below, the photo on the left was shot with the Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 lens whereas the one on the right was shot with my Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 at 14mm. What the 14mm focal length allowed me to do that night was to be able to frame the entire mountain and it’s reflection with enough of the sky to follow the aurora.
Having the 14mm to 24mm range also allows some flexibility in framing which the prime does not. That said, there are other fast primes around, such as the Nikon 20mm f/1.8. These offer the advantage of 1-2 stops of extra light, meaning you can either reduce your ISO (for greater dynamic range) or reduce your shutter to get more detail in your exposure.
Some of you may worry that the fast lenses might result in shallow depth of field. But in general, to photograph something so distant in the sky, you would be focusing at infinity anyway. Unless you are also including a foreground object in your composition, you should generally have no worries other than the noise from the higher ISOs.
One tricky aspect of an autofocus lens is that it can be quite difficult to focus in a near pitch black environment. My manual focus Zeiss prime is fantastic since all I need to do is to turn the focus ring all the way to the end, and it’s at infinity. With an autofocus lens, the trick here is to pre-focus on something far in the distance, then switch your lens to manual focus and don’t touch it again. Some photographers even fix their lens focus ring to infinity using duct tape. The other option is to ask a companion to stand far away, then use their phone as a bright source to focus on. With a very wide angle lens such as the 14-24mm, a distance of about 20-30 feet should give you pretty close to infinity focus.
Aurora movement can vary – sometimes it dances slowly across the sky; sometimes it is quite fast and energetic and breathtakingly beautiful. A very long exposure will result in “smearing” of auroral activity so the shorter the exposure time, the better.
3.3) Tripod
A tripod is a must, but any semi-serious photographer probably has one already. In this case though, there are probably a few details to be conscious of as a precaution.
Most of us travel great distances to witness and photograph the Northern Lights. So it is imperative to pack your gear in a way that is easy to be carried around. Regarding tripods, it’s generally a given that a solid carbon fiber tripod will be a good investment in the long run. The weather in such locations can be quite finicky so if your tripod is too light, you may get blurry photos due to strong winds. Induro and Sirui have some nice affordable tripods while on the higher end, Gitzo and RRS have sturdy tripods that be extended quite tall if necessary.
Tripod care is a must too. In extremely cold temperatures, some carbon fiber materials might get stiff and brittle; so good care is necessary so you don’t snap a leg while folding it back together. Also if one or more of your tripod legs is submerged under (sea) water while shooting, it’s generally a good idea to clean the legs as soon as possible to prevent accumulation of saline matter.
3.4) Technique
The basics are quite simple. As a starter rule, open your lens to its widest aperture, set your ISO to about 1600, and shoot an exposure of 10-15 seconds. Aurora activity – even bright activity – is still quite dark to the camera sensor; so even at high ISO, you need a relatively long exposure of about 10-15 seconds. Most of my aurora shots have been with lenses with a maximum aperture of f/2.8. With a lens such as the 24mm 1.4, you could get a 2-stop advantage and either shoot at a lower ISO to get cleaner files with greater dynamic range; or shoot a shorter exposure so you can get a lot more detail and prevent long-exposure “smearing”.
The general idea is to shoot so that you have a well exposed histogram. Once you shoot your first test exposure, you should get a good idea if it’s too bright or too dark and compensate accordingly. Generally the light from the aurora comes through quite nicely but any foreground landscape will be much darker. If not exposed properly, the shadow detail will be very hard to recover. Some photographers sometimes shoot the aurora at their optimal settings, then later capture a much longer exposure to get the maximum detail in the foreground. On occasion when you have a foreground object such as a rock very close to camera, some photographers even shoot multiple photographs at varying focal distances and then focus stack the result in photoshop.
Of course, it’s quite difficult to compose a picture in the dark. My personal trick is to boost the ISO to the max so I can take a brief 2-3 second shot and understand what I am framing. Once I am happy, I can bring down the settings to their optimal values. If you can level your tripod as well as your camera, you should then be able to swing the camera around as necessary and photograph to your heart’s content.
The images above shows a series of images I shot in the Snæfellsnes peninsula of Iceland, looking at the lovely Kirkjufell. This aurora display was perhaps the most amazing display I had ever seen. It was very clear and beautiful and incredibly active and went for a good tow hours. This transition of the Aurora waves happened in a 4 minute period and each frame was shot for 13 seconds at ISO 2500 at 14mm.
This set shows you another sequence I shot at the same location during that very same aurora display. Once again, you can see how the aurora dances across the sky weaving elegant light streaks across the sky. Since I shot this right across from the highway, you can see the light spill from vehicles in a couple of shots. I also cloned out the couple of lone photographers on the beach in the final image I posted.
3.5) Post-processing
Well the difficult part is shooting the aurora. Generally any form of processing will yield a presentable result given that the composition is an appealing one. The below image, which I will use as a first example is an image I shot at Jökulsárlón, the famous glacier lagoon in Iceland during that same trip and I was lucky to see a display of the Northern Lights here. What did come as an unexpected surprise is the orange haze on the far right. At the time of shooting, I could see a faint glow and supposed it to be light pollution from a neighbouring town. It was only after I had returned and shared my image, that several commentators mentioned that this glow was most likely pollution from the Holuhraun volcanic eruption in the Bardarbunga caldera. This makes this image quite unique to me, and the aurora was a bonus. That said, this wasn’t the most brilliant display I had seen and the brief but more interesting displays were in a direction across from me, but without any form of foreground I could accentuate it against.
Coming back to the processing part, below is a series showing three stages of the process.
The original RAW file had a heavy green cast which is what you will normally see when you shoot the auroras. However, it does look rather dull and presently, I enjoy shifting the white balance to a cooler tone; just enough to reveal the dark blue tones of the sky. Now you can argue that the green cast is obviously the true colour of the scene and I would agree, but given the artistic license I wanted to exercise, I felt the rich blue tones of the iceberg accentuated the colour of the image quite brilliantly; contrasting the greens and the blues with the orange-red haze of the volcanic pollution makes it even more amazing to me.
The final image has some further creative license; I balanced the tones of the iceberg by lifting them with a grad and contrasting the sky a tad. However these are personal preferences and are in no way the only way it should be done; this is just a guide of the process that I used on this image.
Below is another example of white balance. In this case, the choice of white balance is not as clear-cut. Balancing to match the blue sky (D) gives a very cool, yet alien rendition and the most appealing ones would be either (B) which just amplifies the scene as I saw it or even C which balances the tones to the white of the snow.
Below is yet another image from that same evening at Jökulsárlón. The aurora had waned quite a bit and all that was visible was just the leftover green haze on the right, but once again, bisecting the Milky Way almost precisely and giving me yet another three-part composition.
As you can see from all these images, there is a lot of variety in the shape and movement of this bizarrely beautiful phenomenon. These images were perhaps the most presentable of my personal collection and were shot during just two trips. I was immensely lucky to witness some beautiful moments and I hope to see it a few more times in my lifetime. Until then, here is one last image – quite a weak aurora but still a pleasantly beautiful footnote to a beautiful phenomenon.
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The peak of the sun’s 11-year cycle could come as early as 2024. And – if you’ve been following EarthSky’s daily sun news post – you know that auroras (both northern and southern lights) have been brightening high-latitude skies. From his travel photography blog Capture the Atlas, Dan Zafra shared with EarthSky his picks for the 25 best aurora images of 2023 from photographers around the world. The submissions here are from eight countries, including Australia and New Zealand. You can see the full set of 25 images at Zafra’s website.
Do you have a great image of the aurora to share? You can submit it to us at EarthSky Community Photos.
The 2024 lunar calendars are here! Best Christmas gifts in the universe! Check ’em out here.
Gatklettur Northern Lights by Stefano Pellegrini
Lost Who I Want To Be by Jordan McInally
Beauty of the North by Elena Ermolina
March Michigan Nights by Justin Miller
The dance of the green lady by Luis Cajete
The Red Flame by Laura Oppelt
Bakers Oven Aurora Australis by Josh Beames
Waning Sun by Alex Wides
Lady in Pink by Kenneth LeRose
Bottom line: The blog Capture the Atlas announced its 2023 Northern Lights Photographer of the Year contest. This annual edition showcases 25 of the best aurora photos taken from all over the world. See some of the best northern lights photos in the world here.
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As a professional landscape and wedding photographer, photographing the Northern Lights in Lapland has always been on my bucket list (and maybe one day shooting a wedding here too!) I spent a lot of time researching how best to see and photograph the aurora, and I am often asked how to maximise your chances of seeing the northern lights, and when you do, how best to capture them. So I thought I would share all my thoughts and all I have discovered here. Personally I believe that knowing what the aurora are and what they need to occur are fundamental to increasing your chances of seeing them, and it’s a fascinating subject. If you only have a week in Lapland, and it is once in a lifetime trip, then it pays to give yourself the best possible chance.
What are the Northern Lights? – The science
The Aurora Borealis is a phenomenon whereby beautiful waves of light are created when charged particles from the sun (known as the solar wind) reach the earth’s atmosphere, where the earth’s magnetic field diverts the particles towards the poles, in our case the north pole. When the particles reach the earth’s atmosphere, the energy is transferred through ionisation, and transforms into light – the particles begin to flouresce. Every type of molecule radiates its own unique set of colours, so red and pink are formed by nitrogen molecules, and the well-known green by oxygen molecules. As different molecules are present at different levels in the atmosphere, this creates the curtain shaped effect, with green at the bottom, and pinks and reds at the top. The name Aurora Borealis was termed by Galileo, from the names of the roman goddess of the dawn (Aurora), and the Greek for the north wind (Boreas).
The Aurora normally occur in a band around the earth, which is usually around 3-6 degrees wide, and occurs at the latitude 10-20 degrees from the pole, so 80-70 degrees, and with Levi in Lapland sitting at 68 degrees, it is perfectly positioned for this band to pass overhead. Levi is on the southern rim of the oval, so generally the lights are more likely to be seen in the North. If you can’t see them overhead, then try getting higher and looking in to the distance, as they may well be visible on the Northern horizon.
The strength of the aurora is dictated by the KP index, which can be found through Aurora forecasts. However, you don’t necessarily need a high KP index to see the aurora in Levi. The KP index indicates how strong the solar storm is, and thus how far south it might reach from the pole, So in Levi, the lights will be visible with a KP index of around 2-3, which is actually just classified as ‘unsettled’ on the KP index. A higher KP, such as those which go into the red zone at 7 and 8 doesn’t necessarily mean the probability is greater, it just means the storm is stronger and may reach further south, so for example at the highest level of KP8, the same Aurora could be visible in the UK. It stands to reason though that a higher KP means more activity, and therefore potentially better viewing opportunities, as the aurora oval will be more active and fluctuate north to south more. The photos on this page were all taken when the KP was just 3.
When can I see them? What conditions do you need?
Statistically, the Aurora can be seen on average 111 days per year in Levi, so 1/3 of the time. If you take the summer days when there is no night out of the equation, then this becomes 50% of the time. Further south in Rovaniemi, the probability drops to 40% due to the lower latitude. This is the probability of the lights being present however, and you still need a clear sky don’t forget. So if you had clear skies for a week in December you might expect to see them 3 times, however if it is cloudy all week, then the chances could be zero. This is why keeping an eye on the forecasts for cloud cover is so important, almost more so than the KP factor.
Typically the aurora can be seen around two hours before midnight, and 2 hours after, however then can be seen at any time it is dark, they can be seen faintly at first, getting stronger as the evening progresses.
So to see the lights, you need both a clear sky, and a low to medium KP index of perhaps 2 or above. By far the best way to maximise your chances is to constantly check the weather, and the aurora forecast, both of which constantly change and become more accurate the closer you get. I know from experience that the KP index can change vastly of an evening as the forecast is based upon live readings form various stations situated around the arctic, so keep a close eye on the app, and above all keep looking out, looking up, and towards the northern horizon. The My Aurora app also provides cloud cover information in your location, and I cross referenced this with the IS Supersaa app, just to make sure. Trust me, there is nothing worse than waiting your whole life to see the aurora then missing them through blissful ignorance because the forecast wasn’t quite right. If in doubt, go outside and look for stars, if you can see them, then you have a great chance of catching the aurora.
How do you know if you might see the northern lights?
There are several apps for forecasts which use similar data. The best one I have found is the My Aurora app, which can be programmed to send you alerts which is very useful. It works in the UK too, so if you live in the North of the UK then it can alert you to the very rare sightings when the KP hits 7 or above.
Can you see them with the naked eye?
One of the keys to seeing the lights is to go somewhere with minimal light pollution, and let your eyes adjust to the dark. They can be very faint and hard to see, sometimes just looking like a wisp of grey cloud. A really useful tip here is to use your phone and take a photo in night mode. The camera sensor can be more sensitive than your eye, so if the aurora are there, the chances are that your camera will pick them up before your eyes will!
Can you photograph the lights with your camera phone?
Absolutely, a good modern camera phone will photograph the lights well if it has a night mode. The camera takes a range of photos at different shutter speeds and exposures, then combines them into one to capture the full dynamic range of the image, which is why it is really important to hold your phone still. With an app such as Camera +, you can take much more control of your camera and enable long exposures, which will always be better quaility as they let more light in, but you will need a simple tripod for this.
You can also record a time-lapse with a phone too. A time-lapse effectively creates a short video from a series of still photos taken over a longer period of time, so 20 minutes of photos would create 10 seconds of video. This is useful if you can’t see the aurora moving as they are slow, but it allows you to see the fascinating dancing patterns. You will need a tripod for this to hold the camera still, and once set up, you can’t move the camera of the duration. Position the camera low and wide to include as much of the sky as possible.
I’d recommend trying all of these features before heading out to see the lights, as when they are dancing overhead isn’t the time to be trying to figure out how it all works, especially with cold fingers!
Make sure you head out to an aurora session with a full battery, taking photos can be power hungry, and the cold can reduce the performance of a battery significantly.
If you have a good camera, what is the best set up?
With a digital SLR or mirrorless camera you have ultimate control over the exposure and the image you can create. I would recommend the widest lens you have, ideally 20-24mm, one which is really fast, so has a low f number, to allow the maximum amount of light to enter the camera, ideally f1.8, but f2.8 to f4 will do. My starting settings are a low ISO of 800 (to reduce the amount of noise in the image), a shutter speed of 1 second (to allow plenty of light in to create the image), and the widest f stop possible (again to allow as much light in as possible). You will definitiely need a tripod for a long exposure, and make sure it has a firm footing through the snow. With a wide aperture you get a very shallow depth of field, so you need to focus manually, ideally on the stars, so that the aurora will be in focus. I also always shoot in RAW format so you have as much digital information to be able to get the best possible edited image afterwards. When you edit the image, you may need to adjust the white balance to really bring out the pinks, which aren’t always visible to the naked eye. The pages below explain this in a little more detail if you are interested.
https://capturetheatlas.com/how-to-photograph-the-northern-lights/
https://www.davemorrowphotography.com/2014/10/how-to-photograph-northern-lights.html
Composition
To get the best possible photograph of the aurora, think about ways to get interest in the part of the frame where there is little interest in the sky, with shapes of trees, or cabins. You can use people for silhouettes, or if you want to see their faces, you can light them with a torch, or the torch on another phone.
Cameras and the cold
Cameras and phones perform surprisingly well in the cold, it’s just that battery life can be significantly reduced, so make sure you have spare batteries with you, or a powerbank. A really important consideration if you have your camera or phone out in the cold for a long period of time is condensation – this can be a problem when you bring it in to a warm environment, so the best solution is to leave it in your camera bag, or put it in a ziplock bag so the temperature adjusts before looking at the camera indoors, or you risk fogging.
Video and timelapse
Making a timelapse video is a great way to capture the aurora if they are moving slowly, as it allows you to see the motion much more quickly, so 20 minutes might become 10 seconds. You can create a timelapse on a modern phone (though you will need a tripod for this, and to leave your phone sat for a long period of time, which means you can’t then use it for photos). With a modern mirrorless camera such as the Nikon Z7ii which I use, you can set up the in built interval timer to take a photo every 5 seconds, and then as well as giving you several hundred photos to choose from, it also creates a timelapse for you.
Do we need to book a Northern Lights hunting trip or stay in a glass igloo?
An aurora hunt is a great way to try to find the aurora, and to learn more about them from the people who know them best, and live underneath them all year round. They will be able to take you to the best places to see them based upon the forecast and the weather. Bear in mind though that if it is cloudy, they won’t necessarily be able to find the aurora for you, but you will still probably have an amazing adventure. Eanan Levi run some great specific aurora hunting tours. The same applies to glass igloos, they can be the perfect place to enjoy the aurora, but if it is cloudy then your chances are greatly reduced. The point is that you don’t need to do either to see the aurora, they are free for all to enjoy just by heading outdoors.
https://www.facebook.com/aurorahuntinglapland
https://eananlevi.com/auroraphoto/
Where are the best places to view the Aurora in and around Levi?
The magic is that you can see the aurora anywhere in Levi, but some places are better than others. Try to head somewhere with minimal light pollution, which is why the lakes of Immeljarvi and Sirkkajarvi are popular choices, which are also wide open spaces to allow you to see as much of the sky and horizon as possible (remember that if the aurora aren’t overhead, they may stil be visible in the distance to the north). The golf course is also a good spot, as well as the cabins in the forest. You can also get a good high viewpoint from the Panorama hotel, though you will get light pollution from Levi below.
How can we quickly check if the Aurora are visible over Levi?
The live Levi aurora camera by Starlapland is a great way to keep in touch with what is going on real time.
I hope you have found this information useful – I’m not an expert in the subject, just sharing what I learned which was really useful in maximising my chances of seeing the aurora in Levi. Good luck and I really hope you get to see them! I’m happy to answer any questions below.
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The Northern Lights, known scientifically as auroras borealis, are triggered by geomagnetic activity from the sun. They typically occur closer to the North Pole, near Alaska and Canada.
The Sturgeon Moon became visible Thursday night, appearing bigger and brighter than usual because of its proximity to Earth.
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This is a short-term forecast of the location and intensity of the aurora. This product is based on the OVATION model and provides a 30 to 90 minute forecast of the location and intensity of the aurora. The forecast lead time is the time it takes for the solar wind to travel from the L1 observation point to Earth.
The two maps show the North and South poles of Earth respectively. The brightness and location of the aurora is typically shown as a green oval centered on Earth’s magnetic pole. The green ovals turn red when the aurora is forecasted to be more intense. The sunlit side of Earth is indicated by the lighter blue of the ocean and the lighter color of the continents. Aurora can often be observed somewhere on Earth from just after sunset or just before sunrise. The aurora is not visible during daylight hours. The aurora does not need to be directly overhead but can be observed from as much as a 1000 km away when the aurora is bright and if conditions are right.
The aurora is an indicator of the current geomagnetic storm conditions and provides situational awareness for a number of technologies. The aurora directly impacts HF radio communication and GPS/GNSS satellite navigation. It is closely related to the ground induce currents that impact electric power transition.
For many people, the aurora is a beautiful nighttime phenomenon that is worth traveling to arctic regions just to observe. It is the only way for most people to actually experience space weather.
These links provide a discussion of the aurora phenomena and tips for the best opportunities to view aurora at various locations around the world.
The OVATION (Oval Variation, Assessment, Tracking, Intensity, and Online Nowcasting) model is an empirical model of the intensity of the aurora developed at the Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory by Patrick Newell and co-workers1. The model uses the solar wind velocity and interplanetary magnetic field measured at the L1 orbit position at 1.6 million km (1 million miles) upstream from earth as input and calculates three types of electron precipitation and the proton precipitation which strongly correlate with the aurora. An estimate of aurora viewing probability can be derived by assuming a linear relationship to the intensity of the aurora. This relationship was validated by comparison with data from the Ultraviolet imager (UVI) instrument on the NASA Polar satellite(2).
On occasion, the input solar wind data are either contaminated or unavailable. In those instances, an alternative estimate of the solar wind forcing, based on the current Kp geomagnetic index is used to drive the OVATION model. When this occurs, there is no forecast lead time.
For more information on the OVATION model and aurora products, see:
Newell, P. T., T. Sotirelis, and S. Wing (2009), Diffuse, monoenergetic, and broadband aurora: The global precipitation budget, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A09207, doi:10.1029/2009JA014326(link is external).
Machol, J. L., Green., J. C., Redmon, R. J., Viereck, R. A., Newell, P. T., (2012), Evaluation of OVATION Prime as a forecast model for visible aurorae, Space Weather, 10, 3, doi.org/10.1029/2011SW000746
In 2009, Newell et. al., developed the OVATION model.
In 2011, NOAA (NCEI and SWPC) developed a real-time version of the OVATION model to forecast the location and intensity of the aurora. Machol and Redmon (NCEI) developed the real-time ovation model. Viereck (SWPC) implemented the model and developed the graphical products to run in realtime to create aurora forecasts.
In 2013, Newell upgraded the OVATION Prime model so that it would more accurately capture large geomagnetic storms. The original model, based solely on DMSP data, was only reliable to Kp of 7. By adding data from the NASA TIMED GUVI instrument, Newell et al., were able to expand the model to include the larger storm values of Kp of 8 and 9.
In 2016, NOAA SWPC shared the operational OVATION code (written in IDL) with the UK Met Office in the UK. The UK Met Office converted the OVATION model from IDL to Python.
In 2020, NOAA SWPC implemented the new version of the OVATION Prime model into operations. This version has been dubbed OVATION 2020.
The Auroral Forecast product is based on the OVATION Prime model developed by P. Newell at the Johns Hopkins, Applied Physics Laboratory.
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A mirror is a surface that reflects almost all incident light. Mirrors come in two types: those with a flat surface, known as plane mirrors, and those with a curved surface, called spherical mirrors. In this article, we will explore two specific types of spherical mirrors: convex mirrors and concave mirrors. We will also delve into the concept of ray diagrams, which help us understand how light behaves when it interacts with these mirrors. By examining the ray diagram of a spherical mirror, we can gain insights into the fascinating phenomena of reflection and image formation.
Table of Contents
What is a Mirror?
Plane Mirror vs Spherical Mirror
Characteristics of Concave and Convex Mirrors
Concave Mirror Definition
Characteristics of Concave Mirrors
Convex Mirror Definition
Characteristics of Convex Mirrors
Image Formation by Spherical Mirrors
Guidelines for Rays Falling on the Concave and Convex Mirrors
Image Formation by Concave Mirror
Object at Infinity
Object Beyond the Centre of Curvature
Object at the Centre of Curvature or Focus
Object Between the Centre of Curvature and Focus
Object at the Focus
Object Between the Focus and the Pole
Concave Mirror Image Formation Summary
Image Formation by Convex Mirror
Object at Infinity
Object at a Finite Distance
Concave Mirror Image Formation Summary
Engaging Videos on Spherical Mirror
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs
What is a Mirror?
A mirror plays a fascinating role in reflecting light, resulting in the formation of images. When an object is placed in front of a mirror, we observe its reflection. Incident rays originate from the object, and the reflected rays converge or appear to diverge to create the image. Images formed by mirrors can be classified as real image or virtual image. Real images are produced when light rays converge and intersect, while virtual images are formed when light rays appear to diverge from a point.
Ray diagrams are employed to comprehend the behaviour of light and better understand image formation. These diagrams use lines with arrows to represent incident and reflected rays, allowing us to trace their paths and interactions with the mirror. By interpreting ray diagrams, we gain valuable insights into how images are formed and a deeper understanding of how our eyes perceive objects through reflection.
Plane Mirror vs Spherical Mirror
A plane mirror is a flat, smooth reflective surface with a clear, undistorted reflection. When an object is reflected in a plane mirror, it always forms a virtual image that is upright, of the same shape and size as the object.
On the other hand, a spherical mirror exhibits a consistent curvature. It possesses a constant radius of curvature (In the context of spherical mirrors, the radius of curvature refers to the distance between the centre of the spherical mirror and its curved surface.). Spherical mirrors can create both real and virtual images, depending on the position of the object and the mirror. Spherical mirrors are further categorized into concave and convex mirrors, each with distinct properties and image formation characteristics.
In the upcoming sections, we will detail the characteristics of convex and concave mirrors, along with a comprehensive understanding of the images formed by these mirrors when the object is placed at various positions with the help of ray diagrams.
Characteristics of Concave and Convex Mirrors
Concave Mirror Definition
A concave mirror is a curved mirror where the reflecting surface is on the inner side of the curved shape. It has a surface that curves inward, resembling the shape of the inner surface of a hollow sphere. Concave mirrors are also converging mirrors because they cause light rays to converge or come together after reflection. Depending on the position of the object and the mirror, concave mirrors can form both real and virtual images.
Characteristics of Concave Mirrors
Converging Mirror: A concave mirror is often referred to as a converging mirror because when light rays strike and reflect from its reflecting surface, they converge or come together at a specific point known as the focal point. This property of concave mirrors allows them to focus light to a point.
Magnification and Image Formation: When a concave mirror is placed very close to the object, it forms a magnified, erect, and virtual image. The image appears larger than the actual object and is upright. The virtual image is formed as the reflected rays appear to diverge from a point behind the mirror.
Changing Distance and Image Properties: As the distance between the object and the concave mirror increases, the size of the image decreases. Eventually, at a certain distance, the image transitions from virtual to real. In this case, a real and inverted image is formed on the opposite side of the mirror.
Versatile Image Formation: Concave mirrors have the ability to create images that can vary in size, from small to large, and in nature, from real to virtual. These characteristics make concave mirrors useful in various applications such as telescopes, shaving mirrors, and reflecting headlights.
Convex Mirror Definition
A convex mirror is a curved mirror with the reflecting surface on the curved shape’s outer side. It has a surface that curves outward, resembling the shape of the outer surface of a sphere. Convex mirrors are also known as diverging mirrors because they cause light rays to diverge or spread out after reflection. Convex mirrors always form virtual, erect, and diminished images, regardless of the object’s position. They are commonly used in applications requiring a wide field of view, such as rear-view mirrors and security mirrors.
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Atmospheric effect caused by the solar wind
An aurora[a] (pl. aurorae or auroras),[b] also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis),[c] is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.[3]
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the Earth's magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere). The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emit light of varying colour and complexity. The form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the precipitating particles.
Most of the planets in the Solar System, some natural satellites, brown dwarfs, and even comets also host auroras.
Etymology
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The term aurora borealis was coined by Galileo in 1619, from the Roman Aurora, goddess of the dawn and the Greek name for the north wind (Boreas).[4][5]
The word aurora is derived from the name of the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, who travelled from east to west announcing the coming of the Sun.[6] Ancient Greek poets used the corresponding name Eos metaphorically to refer to dawn, often mentioning its play of colors across the otherwise dark sky (e.g., "rosy-fingered dawn").[7]
The words borealis and australis are derived from the names of the ancient gods of the north wind (Boreas) and the south wind (Auster) in Greco-Roman mythology.
Occurrence
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Most auroras occur in a band known as the "auroral zone",[8] which is typically 3° to 6° (approximately 330–660 km) wide in latitude and between 10° and 20° from the geomagnetic poles at all local times (or longitudes), most clearly seen at night against a dark sky. A region that currently displays an aurora is called the "auroral oval", a band displaced by the solar wind towards the night side of Earth. Auroras at the North Pole itself are rare due to it being on the Arctic Ocean, while auroras at the South Pole itself are very common and guaranteed to be visible.[9] Early evidence for a geomagnetic connection comes from the statistics of auroral observations. Elias Loomis (1860),[10] and later Hermann Fritz (1881)[11] and Sophus Tromholt (1881)[12] in more detail, established that the aurora appeared mainly in the auroral zone.
In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis or the northern lights. The southern counterpart, the aurora australis or the southern lights, has features almost identical to the aurora borealis and changes simultaneously with changes in the northern auroral zone.[13] The aurora australis is visible from high southern latitudes in Antarctica, the Southern Cone, South Africa, Australasia and under exceptional circumstances as far north as Uruguay.[14] The aurora borealis is visible from areas around the Arctic such as Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Scandinavia, Scotland, and Russia. On rare occasions the aurora borealis can be seen as far south as the Mediterranean and the southern states of the US. During the Carrington Event, the greatest geomagnetic storm ever observed, auroras were seen even in the tropics.
A geomagnetic storm causes the auroral ovals (north and south) to expand, bringing the aurora to lower latitudes. The instantaneous distribution of auroras ("auroral oval")[8] is slightly different, being centered about 3–5° nightward of the magnetic pole, so that auroral arcs reach furthest toward the equator when the magnetic pole in question is in between the observer and the Sun. The aurora can be seen best at this time, which is called magnetic midnight.
Auroras seen within the auroral oval may be directly overhead. From farther away, they illuminate the poleward horizon as a greenish glow, or sometimes a faint red, as if the Sun were rising from an unusual direction. Auroras also occur poleward of the auroral zone as either diffuse patches or arcs,[15] which can be subvisual.
Auroras are occasionally seen in latitudes below the auroral zone, when a geomagnetic storm temporarily enlarges the auroral oval. Large geomagnetic storms are most common during the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle or during the three years after the peak.[16][17] An electron spirals (gyrates) about a field line at an angle that is determined by its velocity vectors, parallel and perpendicular, respectively, to the local geomagnetic field vector B. This angle is known as the "pitch angle" of the particle. The distance, or radius, of the electron from the field line at any time is known as its Larmor radius. The pitch angle increases as the electron travels to a region of greater field strength nearer to the atmosphere. Thus, it is possible for some particles to return, or mirror, if the angle becomes 90° before entering the atmosphere to collide with the denser molecules there. Other particles that do not mirror enter the atmosphere and contribute to the auroral display over a range of altitudes. Other types of auroras have been observed from space; for example, "poleward arcs" stretching sunward across the polar cap, the related "theta aurora",[18] and "dayside arcs" near noon. These are relatively infrequent and poorly understood. Other interesting effects occur such as pulsating aurora, "black aurora" and their rarer companion "anti-black aurora" and subvisual red arcs. In addition to all these, a weak glow (often deep red) observed around the two polar cusps, the field lines separating the ones that close through Earth from those that are swept into the tail and close remotely.
Images
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Early work on the imaging of the auroras was done in 1949 by the University of Saskatchewan using the SCR-270 radar.[19] The altitudes where auroral emissions occur were revealed by Carl Størmer and his colleagues, who used cameras to triangulate more than 12,000 auroras.[20] They discovered that most of the light is produced between 90 and 150 km (56 and 93 mi) above the ground, while extending at times to more than 1,000 km (620 mi).
Forms
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According to Clark (2007), there are five main forms that can be seen from the ground, from least to most visible:[21]
A mild glow, near the horizon. These can be close to the limit of visibility,[22] but can be distinguished from moonlit clouds because stars can be seen undiminished through the glow.
Patches or surfaces that look like clouds.
Arcs curve across the sky.
Rays are light and dark stripes across arcs, reaching upwards by various amounts.
Coronas cover much of the sky and diverge from one point on it.
Brekke (1994) also described some auroras as "curtains".[23] The similarity to curtains is often enhanced by folds within the arcs. Arcs can fragment or break up into separate, at times rapidly changing, often rayed features that may fill the whole sky. These are also known as discrete auroras, which are at times bright enough to read a newspaper by at night.[24]
These forms are consistent with auroras being shaped by Earth's magnetic field. The appearances of arcs, rays, curtains, and coronas are determined by the shapes of the luminous parts of the atmosphere and a viewer's position.[25]
Colors and wavelengths of auroral light
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Red: At its highest altitudes, excited atomic oxygen emits at 630 nm (red); low concentration of atoms and lower sensitivity of eyes at this wavelength make this color visible only under more intense solar activity. The low number of oxygen atoms and their gradually diminishing concentration is responsible for the faint appearance of the top parts of the "curtains". Scarlet, crimson, and carmine are the most often-seen hues of red for the auroras.
Green: At lower altitudes, the more frequent collisions suppress the 630 nm (red) mode: rather the 557.7 nm emission (green) dominates. A fairly high concentration of atomic oxygen and higher eye sensitivity in green make green auroras the most common. The excited molecular nitrogen (atomic nitrogen being rare due to the high stability of the N2 molecule) plays a role here, as it can transfer energy by collision to an oxygen atom, which then radiates it away at the green wavelength. (Red and green can also mix together to produce pink or yellow hues.) The rapid decrease of concentration of atomic oxygen below about 100 km is responsible for the abrupt-looking end of the lower edges of the curtains. Both the 557.7 and 630.0 nm wavelengths correspond to forbidden transitions of atomic oxygen, a slow mechanism responsible for the graduality (0.7 s and 107 s respectively) of flaring and fading.
Blue: At yet lower altitudes, atomic oxygen is uncommon, and molecular nitrogen and ionized molecular nitrogen take over in producing visible light emission, radiating at a large number of wavelengths in both red and blue parts of the spectrum, with 428 nm (blue) being dominant. Blue and purple emissions, typically at the lower edges of the "curtains", show up at the highest levels of solar activity.[26] The molecular nitrogen transitions are much faster than the atomic oxygen ones.
Ultraviolet: Ultraviolet radiation from auroras (within the optical window but not visible to virtually all[clarification needed] humans) has been observed with the requisite equipment. Ultraviolet auroras have also been seen on Mars,[27] Jupiter, and Saturn.
Infrared: Infrared radiation, in wavelengths that are within the optical window, is also part of many auroras.[27][28]
Yellow and pink are a mix of red and green or blue. Other shades of red, as well as orange and gold, may be seen on rare occasions; yellow-green is moderately common.[clarification needed] As red, green, and blue are linearly independent colors, additive synthesis could, in theory, produce most human-perceived colors, but the ones mentioned in this article comprise a virtually exhaustive list.
Changes with time
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Auroras change with time, over the night they begin with glows and progress toward coronas, although they may not reach them. They tend to fade in the opposite order.[23] Until about 1963, it was thought that these changes are due to the rotation of the Earth under a pattern fixed with respect to the Sun. Later, it was found by comparing all-sky films of auroras from different places (collected during the International Geophysical Year) that they often undergo global changes in a process called auroral substorm. They change in a few minutes from quiet arcs all along the auroral oval to active displays along the darkside and after 1 – 3 hours they gradually change back.[29] Changes in auroras over time are commonly visualized using keograms.[30]
At shorter time scales, auroras can change their appearances and intensity, sometimes so slowly as to be difficult to notice, and at other times rapidly down to the sub-second scale.[24] The phenomenon of pulsating auroras is an example of intensity variations over short timescales, typically with periods of 2–20 seconds. This type of aurora is generally accompanied by decreasing peak emission heights of about 8 km for blue and green emissions and above average solar wind speeds (c. 500 km/s).[31]
Other auroral radiation
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In addition, the aurora and associated currents produce a strong radio emission around 150 kHz known as auroral kilometric radiation (AKR), discovered in 1972.[32] Ionospheric absorption makes AKR only observable from space. X-ray emissions, originating from the particles associated with auroras, have also been detected.[33]
Noise
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Aurora noise, similar to a crackling noise, begins about 70 m (230 ft) above Earth's surface and is caused by charged particles in an inversion layer of the atmosphere formed during a cold night. The charged particles discharge when particles from the Sun hit the inversion layer, creating the noise.[34][35]
Unusual types
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STEVE
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In 2016, more than fifty citizen science observations described what was to them an unknown type of aurora which they named "STEVE", for "Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement". STEVE is not an aurora but is caused by a 25 km (16 mi) wide ribbon of hot plasma at an altitude of 450 km (280 mi), with a temperature of 3,000 °C (3,270 K; 5,430 °F) and flowing at a speed of 6 km/s (3.7 mi/s) (compared to 10 m/s (33 ft/s) outside the ribbon).[36]
Picket-fence aurora
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The processes that cause STEVE are also associated with a picket-fence aurora, although the latter can be seen without STEVE.[37][38] It is an aurora because it is caused by precipitation of electrons in the atmosphere but it appears outside the auroral oval,[39] closer to the equator than typical auroras.[40] When the picket-fence aurora appears with STEVE, it is below.[38]
Dune aurora
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First reported in 2020,[41][42] and confirmed in 2021,[43][44] the dune aurora phenomenon was discovered[45] by Finnish citizen scientists. It consists of regularly-spaced, parallel stripes of brighter emission in the green diffuse aurora which give the impression of sand dunes.[46] The phenomenon is believed to be caused by the modulation of atomic oxygen density by a large-scale atmospheric wave travelling horizontally in a waveguide through an inversion layer in the mesosphere in presence of electron precipitation.[43]
Horse-collar aurora
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Horse-collar auroras (HCA) are auroral features in which the auroral ellipse shifts poleward during the dawn and dusk portions and the polar cap becomes teardrop-shaped. They form during periods when the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is permanently northward, when the IMF clock angle is small. Their formation is associated with the closure of the magnetic flux at the top of the dayside magnetosphere by the double lobe reconnection (DLR). There are approximately 8 HCA events per month, with no seasonal dependence, and that the IMF must be within 30 degrees of northwards.[47]
Conjugate auroras
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Conjugate auroras are nearly exact mirror-image auroras found at conjugate points in the northern and southern hemispheres on the same geomagnetic field lines. These generally happen at the time of the equinoxes, when there is little difference in the orientation of the north and south geomagnetic poles to the sun. Attempts were made to image conjugate auroras by aircraft from Alaska and New Zealand in 1967, 1968, 1970, and 1971, with some success.[48]
Causes
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A full understanding of the physical processes which lead to different types of auroras is still incomplete, but the basic cause involves the interaction of the solar wind with Earth's magnetosphere. The varying intensity of the solar wind produces effects of different magnitudes but includes one or more of the following physical scenarios.
A quiescent solar wind flowing past Earth's magnetosphere steadily interacts with it and can both inject solar wind particles directly onto the geomagnetic field lines that are 'open', as opposed to being 'closed' in the opposite hemisphere and provide diffusion through the bow shock. It can also cause particles already trapped in the radiation belts to precipitate into the atmosphere. Once particles are lost to the atmosphere from the radiation belts, under quiet conditions, new ones replace them only slowly, and the loss-cone becomes depleted. In the magnetotail, however, particle trajectories seem constantly to reshuffle, probably when the particles cross the very weak magnetic field near the equator. As a result, the flow of electrons in that region is nearly the same in all directions ("isotropic") and assures a steady supply of leaking electrons. The leakage of electrons does not leave the tail positively charged, because each leaked electron lost to the atmosphere is replaced by a low energy electron drawn upward from the ionosphere. Such replacement of "hot" electrons by "cold" ones is in complete accord with the second law of thermodynamics. The complete process, which also generates an electric ring current around Earth, is uncertain.
Geomagnetic disturbance from an enhanced solar wind causes distortions of the magnetotail ("magnetic substorms"). These 'substorms' tend to occur after prolonged spells (on the order of hours) during which the interplanetary magnetic field has had an appreciable southward component. This leads to a higher rate of interconnection between its field lines and those of Earth. As a result, the solar wind moves magnetic flux (tubes of magnetic field lines, 'locked' together with their resident plasma) from the day side of Earth to the magnetotail, widening the obstacle it presents to the solar wind flow and constricting the tail on the night-side. Ultimately some tail plasma can separate ("magnetic reconnection"); some blobs ("plasmoids") are squeezed downstream and are carried away with the solar wind; others are squeezed toward Earth where their motion feeds strong outbursts of auroras, mainly around midnight ("unloading process"). A geomagnetic storm resulting from greater interaction adds many more particles to the plasma trapped around Earth, also producing enhancement of the "ring current". Occasionally the resulting modification of Earth's magnetic field can be so strong that it produces auroras visible at middle latitudes, on field lines much closer to the equator than those of the auroral zone.
Acceleration of auroral charged particles invariably accompanies a magnetospheric disturbance that causes an aurora. This mechanism, which is believed to predominantly arise from strong electric fields along the magnetic field or wave-particle interactions, raises the velocity of a particle in the direction of the guiding magnetic field. The pitch angle is thereby decreased and increases the chance of it being precipitated into the atmosphere. Both electromagnetic and electrostatic waves, produced at the time of greater geomagnetic disturbances, make a significant contribution to the energizing processes that sustain an aurora. Particle acceleration provides a complex intermediate process for transferring energy from the solar wind indirectly into the atmosphere.
The details of these phenomena are not fully understood. However, it is clear that the prime source of auroral particles is the solar wind feeding the magnetosphere, the reservoir containing the radiation zones and temporarily magnetically trapped particles confined by the geomagnetic field, coupled with particle acceleration processes.[49]
Auroral particles
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The immediate cause of the ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents leading to auroral emissions was discovered in 1960, when a pioneering rocket flight from Fort Churchill in Canada revealed a flux of electrons entering the atmosphere from above.[50] Since then an extensive collection of measurements has been acquired painstakingly and with steadily improving resolution since the 1960s by many research teams using rockets and satellites to traverse the auroral zone. The main findings have been that auroral arcs and other bright forms are due to electrons that have been accelerated during the final few 10,000 km or so of their plunge into the atmosphere.[51] These electrons often, but not always, exhibit a peak in their energy distribution, and are preferentially aligned along the local direction of the magnetic field.
Electrons mainly responsible for diffuse and pulsating auroras have, in contrast, a smoothly falling energy distribution, and an angular (pitch-angle) distribution favouring directions perpendicular to the local magnetic field. Pulsations were discovered to originate at or close to the equatorial crossing point of auroral zone magnetic field lines.[52] Protons are also associated with auroras, both discrete and diffuse.
Atmosphere
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Auroras result from emissions of photons in Earth's upper atmosphere, above 80 km (50 mi), from ionized nitrogen atoms regaining an electron, and oxygen atoms and nitrogen based molecules returning from an excited state to ground state.[53] They are ionized or excited by the collision of particles precipitated into the atmosphere. Both incoming electrons and protons may be involved. Excitation energy is lost within the atmosphere by the emission of a photon, or by collision with another atom or molecule:
Oxygen emissions
green or orange-red, depending on the amount of energy absorbed.
Nitrogen emissions
blue, purple or red; blue and purple if the molecule regains an electron after it has been ionized, red if returning to ground state from an excited state.
Oxygen is unusual in terms of its return to ground state: it can take 0.7 seconds to emit the 557.7 nm green light and up to two minutes for the red 630.0 nm emission. Collisions with other atoms or molecules absorb the excitation energy and prevent emission, this process is called collisional quenching. Because the highest parts of the atmosphere contain a higher percentage of oxygen and lower particle densities, such collisions are rare enough to allow time for oxygen to emit red light. Collisions become more frequent progressing down into the atmosphere due to increasing density, so that red emissions do not have time to happen, and eventually, even green light emissions are prevented.
This is why there is a color differential with altitude; at high altitudes oxygen red dominates, then oxygen green and nitrogen blue/purple/red, then finally nitrogen blue/purple/red when collisions prevent oxygen from emitting anything. Green is the most common color. Then comes pink, a mixture of light green and red, followed by pure red, then yellow (a mixture of red and green), and finally, pure blue.
Precipitating protons generally produce optical emissions as incident hydrogen atoms after gaining electrons from the atmosphere. Proton auroras are usually observed at lower latitudes.[54]
Ionosphere
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Bright auroras are generally associated with Birkeland currents (Schield et al., 1969;[55] Zmuda and Armstrong, 1973[56]), which flow down into the ionosphere on one side of the pole and out on the other. In between, some of the current connects directly through the ionospheric E layer (125 km); the rest ("region 2") detours, leaving again through field lines closer to the equator and closing through the "partial ring current" carried by magnetically trapped plasma. The ionosphere is an ohmic conductor, so some consider that such currents require a driving voltage, which an, as yet unspecified, dynamo mechanism can supply. Electric field probes in orbit above the polar cap suggest voltages of the order of 40,000 volts, rising up to more than 200,000 volts during intense magnetic storms. In another interpretation, the currents are the direct result of electron acceleration into the atmosphere by wave/particle interactions.
Ionospheric resistance has a complex nature, and leads to a secondary Hall current flow. By a strange twist of physics, the magnetic disturbance on the ground due to the main current almost cancels out, so most of the observed effect of auroras is due to a secondary current, the auroral electrojet. An auroral electrojet index (measured in nanotesla) is regularly derived from ground data and serves as a general measure of auroral activity. Kristian Birkeland[57] deduced that the currents flowed in the east–west directions along the auroral arc, and such currents, flowing from the dayside toward (approximately) midnight were later named "auroral electrojets" (see also Birkeland currents). Ionosphere can contribute to the formation of auroral arcs via the feedback instability under high ionospheric resistance conditions, observed at night time and in dark Winter hemisphere.[58]
Interaction of the solar wind with Earth
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Earth is constantly immersed in the solar wind, a flow of magnetized hot plasma (a gas of free electrons and positive ions) emitted by the Sun in all directions, a result of the two-million-degree temperature of the Sun's outermost layer, the corona. The solar wind reaches Earth with a velocity typically around 400 km/s, a density of around 5 ions/cm3 and a magnetic field intensity of around 2–5 nT (for comparison, Earth's surface field is typically 30,000–50,000 nT). During magnetic storms, in particular, flows can be several times faster; the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) may also be much stronger. Joan Feynman deduced in the 1970s that the long-term averages of solar wind speed correlated with geomagnetic activity.[59] Her work resulted from data collected by the Explorer 33 spacecraft.
The solar wind and magnetosphere consist of plasma (ionized gas), which conducts electricity. It is well known (since Michael Faraday's work around 1830) that when an electrical conductor is placed within a magnetic field while relative motion occurs in a direction that the conductor cuts across (or is cut by), rather than along, the lines of the magnetic field, an electric current is induced within the conductor. The strength of the current depends on a) the rate of relative motion, b) the strength of the magnetic field, c) the number of conductors ganged together and d) the distance between the conductor and the magnetic field, while the direction of flow is dependent upon the direction of relative motion. Dynamos make use of this basic process ("the dynamo effect"), any and all conductors, solid or otherwise are so affected, including plasmas and other fluids.
The IMF originates on the Sun, linked to the sunspots, and its field lines (lines of force) are dragged out by the solar wind. That alone would tend to line them up in the Sun-Earth direction, but the rotation of the Sun angles them at Earth by about 45 degrees forming a spiral in the ecliptic plane, known as the Parker spiral. The field lines passing Earth are therefore usually linked to those near the western edge ("limb") of the visible Sun at any time.[60]
The solar wind and the magnetosphere, being two electrically conducting fluids in relative motion, should be able in principle to generate electric currents by dynamo action and impart energy from the flow of the solar wind. However, this process is hampered by the fact that plasmas conduct readily along magnetic field lines, but less readily perpendicular to them. Energy is more effectively transferred by the temporary magnetic connection between the field lines of the solar wind and those of the magnetosphere. Unsurprisingly this process is known as magnetic reconnection. As already mentioned, it happens most readily when the interplanetary field is directed southward, in a similar direction to the geomagnetic field in the inner regions of both the north magnetic pole and south magnetic pole.
Auroras are more frequent and brighter during the intense phase of the solar cycle when coronal mass ejections increase the intensity of the solar wind.[61]
Magnetosphere
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Earth's magnetosphere is shaped by the impact of the solar wind on Earth's magnetic field. This forms an obstacle to the flow, diverting it, at an average distance of about 70,000 km (11 Earth radii or Re),[62] producing a bow shock 12,000 km to 15,000 km (1.9 to 2.4 Re) further upstream. The width of the magnetosphere abreast of Earth is typically 190,000 km (30 Re), and on the night side a long "magnetotail" of stretched field lines extends to great distances (> 200 Re).
The high latitude magnetosphere is filled with plasma as the solar wind passes Earth. The flow of plasma into the magnetosphere increases with additional turbulence, density, and speed in the solar wind. This flow is favored by a southward component of the IMF, which can then directly connect to the high latitude geomagnetic field lines.[63] The flow pattern of magnetospheric plasma is mainly from the magnetotail toward Earth, around Earth and back into the solar wind through the magnetopause on the day-side. In addition to moving perpendicular to Earth's magnetic field, some magnetospheric plasma travels down along Earth's magnetic field lines, gains additional energy and loses it to the atmosphere in the auroral zones. The cusps of the magnetosphere, separating geomagnetic field lines that close through Earth from those that close remotely allow a small amount of solar wind to directly reach the top of the atmosphere, producing an auroral glow.
On 26 February 2008, THEMIS probes were able to determine, for the first time, the triggering event for the onset of magnetospheric substorms.[64] Two of the five probes, positioned approximately one third the distance to the Moon, measured events suggesting a magnetic reconnection event 96 seconds prior to auroral intensification.[65]
Geomagnetic storms that ignite auroras may occur more often during the months around the equinoxes. It is not well understood, but geomagnetic storms may vary with Earth's seasons. Two factors to consider are the tilt of both the solar and Earth's axis to the ecliptic plane. As Earth orbits throughout a year, it experiences an interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) from different latitudes of the Sun, which is tilted at 8 degrees. Similarly, the 23-degree tilt of Earth's axis about which the geomagnetic pole rotates with a diurnal variation changes the daily average angle that the geomagnetic field presents to the incident IMF throughout a year. These factors combined can lead to minor cyclical changes in the detailed way that the IMF links to the magnetosphere. In turn, this affects the average probability of opening a door[colloquialism] through which energy from the solar wind can reach Earth's inner magnetosphere and thereby enhance auroras. Recent evidence in 2021 has shown that individual separate substorms may in fact be correlated networked communities.[66]
Auroral particle acceleration
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Just as there are many types of aurora, there are many different mechanisms that accelerate auroral particles into the atmosphere. Electron aurora in Earth's auroral zone (i.e. commonly visible aurora) can be split into two main categories with different immediate causes: diffuse and discrete aurora. Diffuse aurora appear relatively structureless to an observer on the ground, with indistinct edges and amorphous forms. Discrete aurora are structured into distinct features with well-defined edges such as arcs, rays and coronas; they also tend to be much brighter than the diffuse aurora.
In both cases, the electrons that eventually cause the aurora start out as electrons trapped by the magnetic field in Earth's magnetosphere. These trapped particles bounce back and forth along magnetic field lines and are prevented from hitting the atmosphere by the magnetic mirror formed by the increasing magnetic field strength closer to Earth. The magnetic mirror's ability to trap a particle depends on the particle's pitch angle: the angle between its direction of motion and the local magnetic field. An aurora is created by processes that decrease the pitch angle of many individual electrons, freeing them from the magnetic trap and causing them to hit the atmosphere.
In the case of diffuse auroras, the electron pitch angles are altered by their interaction with various plasma waves. Each interaction is essentially wave-particle scattering; the electron energy after interacting with the wave is similar to its energy before interaction, but the direction of motion is altered. If the final direction of motion after scattering is close to the field line (specifically, if it falls within the loss cone) then the electron will hit the atmosphere. Diffuse auroras are caused by the collective effect of many such scattered electrons hitting the atmosphere. The process is mediated by the plasma waves, which become stronger during periods of high geomagnetic activity, leading to increased diffuse aurora at those times.
In the case of discrete auroras, the trapped electrons are accelerated toward Earth by electric fields that form at an altitude of about 4000–12000 km in the "auroral acceleration region". The electric fields point away from Earth (i.e. upward) along the magnetic field line.[67] Electrons moving downward through these fields gain a substantial amount of energy (on the order of a few keV) in the direction along the magnetic field line toward Earth. This field-aligned acceleration decreases the pitch angle for all of the electrons passing through the region, causing many of them to hit the upper atmosphere. In contrast to the scattering process leading to diffuse auroras, the electric field increases the kinetic energy of all of the electrons transiting downward through the acceleration region by the same amount. This accelerates electrons starting from the magnetosphere with initially low energies (tens of eV or less) to energies required to create an aurora (100s of eV or greater), allowing that large source of particles to contribute to creating auroral light.
The accelerated electrons carry an electric current along the magnetic field lines (a Birkeland current). Since the electric field points in the same direction as the current, there is a net conversion of electromagnetic energy into particle energy in the auroral acceleration region (an electric load). The energy to power this load is eventually supplied by the magnetized solar wind flowing around the obstacle of Earth's magnetic field, although exactly how that power flows through the magnetosphere is still an active area of research.[68] While the energy to power the aurora is ultimately derived from the solar wind, the electrons themselves do not travel directly from the solar wind into Earth's auroral zone; magnetic field lines from these regions do not connect to the solar wind, so there is no direct access for solar wind electrons.
Some auroral features are also created by electrons accelerated by dispersive Alfvén waves. At small wavelengths transverse to the background magnetic field (comparable to the electron inertial length or ion gyroradius), Alfvén waves develop a significant electric field parallel to the background magnetic field. This electric field can accelerate electrons to keV energies, significant to produce auroral arcs.[69] If the electrons have a speed close to that of the wave's phase velocity, they are accelerated in a manner analogous to a surfer catching an ocean wave.[70][71] This constantly-changing wave electric field can accelerate electrons along the field line, causing some of them to hit the atmosphere. Electrons accelerated by this mechanism tend to have a broad energy spectrum, in contrast to the sharply-peaked energy spectrum typical of electrons accelerated by quasi-static electric fields.
In addition to the discrete and diffuse electron aurora, proton aurora is caused when magnetospheric protons collide with the upper atmosphere. The proton gains an electron in the interaction, and the resulting neutral hydrogen atom emits photons. The resulting light is too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Other aurora not covered by the above discussion include transpolar arcs (formed poleward of the auroral zone), cusp aurora (formed in two small high-latitude areas on the dayside) and some non-terrestrial auroras.
Historically significant events
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The discovery of a 1770 Japanese diary in 2017 depicting auroras above the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto suggested that the storm may have been 7% larger than the Carrington event, which affected telegraph networks.[72][73]
The auroras that resulted from the Carrington event on both 28 August and 2 September 1859, are thought to be the most spectacular in recent history. In a paper to the Royal Society on 21 November 1861, Balfour Stewart described both auroral events as documented by a self-recording magnetograph at the Kew Observatory and established the connection between the 2 September 1859 auroral storm and the Carrington–Hodgson flare event when he observed that "It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act."[74] The second auroral event, which occurred on 2 September 1859, was a result of the (unseen) coronal mass ejection associated with the exceptionally intense Carrington–Hodgson white light solar flare on 1 September 1859. This event produced auroras so widespread and extraordinarily bright that they were seen and reported in published scientific measurements, ship logs, and newspapers throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia. It was reported by The New York Times that in Boston on Friday 2 September 1859 the aurora was "so brilliant that at about one o'clock ordinary print could be read by the light".[75] One o'clock EST time on Friday 2 September would have been 6:00 GMT; the self-recording magnetograph at the Kew Observatory was recording the geomagnetic storm, which was then one hour old, at its full intensity. Between 1859 and 1862, Elias Loomis published a series of nine papers on the Great Auroral Exhibition of 1859 in the American Journal of Science where he collected worldwide reports of the auroral event.[10]
That aurora is thought to have been produced by one of the most intense coronal mass ejections in history. It is also notable for the fact that it is the first time where the phenomena of auroral activity and electricity were unambiguously linked. This insight was made possible not only due to scientific magnetometer measurements of the era, but also as a result of a significant portion of the 125,000 miles (201,000 km) of telegraph lines then in service being significantly disrupted for many hours throughout the storm. Some telegraph lines, however, seem to have been of the appropriate length and orientation to produce a sufficient geomagnetically induced current from the electromagnetic field to allow for continued communication with the telegraph operator power supplies switched off.[76] The following conversation occurred between two operators of the American Telegraph Line between Boston and Portland, Maine, on the night of 2 September 1859 and reported in the Boston Traveler:
Boston operator (to Portland operator): "Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes."
Portland operator: "Will do so. It is now disconnected."
Boston: "Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?"
Portland: "Better than with our batteries on. – Current comes and goes gradually."
Boston: "My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble."
Portland: "Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?"
Boston: "Yes. Go ahead."
The conversation was carried on for around two hours using no battery power at all and working solely with the current induced by the aurora, and it was said that this was the first time on record that more than a word or two was transmitted in such manner.[75] Such events led to the general conclusion that
The effect of the Aurora on the electric telegraph is generally to increase or diminish the electric current generated in working the wires. Sometimes it entirely neutralizes them, so that, in effect, no fluid [current] is discoverable in them. The aurora borealis seems to be composed of a mass of electric matter, resembling in every respect, that generated by the electric galvanic battery. The currents from it change coming on the wires, and then disappear: the mass of the aurora rolls from the horizon to the zenith.[77]
In May 2024, a series of solar storms caused the aurora borealis to be observed from as far south as Ferdows, Iran.[78][79][80]
Historical views and folklore
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The earliest datable record of an aurora was recorded in the Bamboo Annals, a historical chronicle of the history of ancient China, in 977 or 957 BC.[81] An aurora was described by the Greek explorer Pytheas in the 4th century BC.[82] Seneca wrote about auroras in the first book of his Naturales Quaestiones, classifying them, for instance, as pithaei ('barrel-like'); chasmata ('chasm'); pogoniae ('bearded'); cyparissae ('like cypress trees'); and describing their manifold colors. He wrote about whether they were above or below the clouds, and recalled that under Tiberius, an aurora formed above the port city of Ostia that was so intense and red that a cohort of the army, stationed nearby for fire duty, galloped to the rescue.[83] It has been suggested that Pliny the Elder depicted the aurora borealis in his Natural History, when he refers to trabes, chasma, 'falling red flames', and 'daylight in the night'.[84]
The earliest depiction of the aurora may have been in Cro-Magnon cave paintings of northern Spain dating to 30,000 BC.[85]
The oldest known written record of the aurora was in a Chinese legend written around 2600 BC. On an autumn around 2000 BC,[86] according to a legend, a young woman named Fubao was sitting alone in the wilderness by a bay, when suddenly a "magical band of light" appeared like "moving clouds and flowing water", turning into a bright halo around the Big Dipper, which cascaded a pale silver brilliance, illuminating the earth and making shapes and shadows seem alive. Moved by this sight, Fubao became pregnant and gave birth to a son, the Emperor Xuanyuan, known legendarily as the initiator of Chinese culture and the ancestor of all Chinese people.[citation needed] In the Shanhaijing, a creature named Shilong is described to be like a red dragon shining in the night sky with a body a thousand miles long. In ancient times, the Chinese did not have a fixed word for the aurora, so it was named according to the different shapes of the aurora, such as "Sky Dog" (天狗), "Sword/Knife Star" (刀星), "Chiyou banner" (蚩尤旗), "Sky's Open Eyes" (天开眼), and "Stars like Rain" (星陨如雨).[citation needed]
In Japanese folklore, pheasants were considered messengers from heaven. However, researchers from Japan's Graduate University for Advanced Studies and National Institute of Polar Research claimed in March 2020 that red pheasant tails witnessed across the night sky over Japan in 620 A.D., might be a red aurora produced during a magnetic storm.[87]
In the traditions of Aboriginal Australians, the Aurora Australis is commonly associated with fire. For example, the Gunditjmara people of western Victoria called auroras puae buae ('ashes'), while the Gunai people of eastern Victoria perceived auroras as bushfires in the spirit world. The Dieri people of South Australia say that an auroral display is kootchee, an evil spirit creating a large fire. Similarly, the Ngarrindjeri people of South Australia refer to auroras seen over Kangaroo Island as the campfires of spirits in the 'Land of the Dead'. Aboriginal people[which?] in southwest Queensland believe the auroras to be the fires of the Oola Pikka, ghostly spirits who spoke to the people through auroras. Sacred law forbade anyone except male elders from watching or interpreting the messages of ancestors they believed were transmitted through an aurora.[88]
Among the Māori people of New Zealand, aurora australis or Tahunui-a-rangi ("great torches in the sky") were alight by ancestors who sailed south to a "land of ice" (or their descendants);[89][90] these people were said to be Ui-te-Rangiora's expedition party who had reached the Southern Ocean.[89] around the 7th century.[91]
In Scandinavia, the first mention of norðrljós (the northern lights) is found in the Norwegian chronicle Konungs Skuggsjá from AD 1230. The chronicler has heard about this phenomenon from compatriots returning from Greenland, and he gives three possible explanations: that the ocean was surrounded by vast fires; that the sun flares could reach around the world to its night side; or that glaciers could store energy so that they eventually became fluorescent.[92]
Walter William Bryant wrote in his book Kepler (1920) that Tycho Brahe "seems to have been something of a homœopathist, for he recommends sulfur to cure infectious diseases 'brought on by the sulphurous vapours of the Aurora Borealis'".[93]
In 1778, Benjamin Franklin theorized in his paper Aurora Borealis, Suppositions and Conjectures towards forming an Hypothesis for its Explanation that an aurora was caused by a concentration of electrical charge in the polar regions intensified by the snow and moisture in the air:[94][95][96]
May not then the great quantity of electricity brought into the polar regions by the clouds, which are condens'd there, and fall in snow, which electricity would enter the earth, but cannot penetrate the ice; may it not, I say (as a bottle overcharged) break thro' that low atmosphere and run along in the vacuum over the air towards the equator, diverging as the degrees of longitude enlarge, strongly visible where densest, and becoming less visible as it more diverges; till it finds a passage to the earth in more temperate climates, or is mingled with the upper air?
Observations of the rhythmic movement of compass needles due to the influence of an aurora were confirmed in the Swedish city of Uppsala by Anders Celsius and Olof Hiorter. In 1741, Hiorter was able to link large magnetic fluctuations with an aurora being observed overhead. This evidence helped to support their theory that 'magnetic storms' are responsible for such compass fluctuations.[97]
A variety of Native American myths surround the spectacle. The European explorer Samuel Hearne traveled with Chipewyan Dene in 1771 and recorded their views on the ed-thin ('caribou'). According to Hearne, the Dene people saw the resemblance between an aurora and the sparks produced when caribou fur is stroked. They believed that the lights were the spirits of their departed friends dancing in the sky, and when they shone brightly it meant that their deceased friends were very happy.[98]
During the night after the Battle of Fredericksburg, an aurora was seen from the battlefield. The Confederate Army took this as a sign that God was on their side, as the lights were rarely seen so far south. The painting Aurora Borealis by Frederic Edwin Church is widely interpreted to represent the conflict of the American Civil War.[99]
A mid 19th-century British source says auroras were a rare occurrence before the 18th century.[100] It quotes Halley as saying that before the aurora of 1716, no such phenomenon had been recorded for more than 80 years, and none of any consequence since 1574. It says no appearance is recorded in the Transactions of the French Academy of Sciences between 1666 and 1716; and that one aurora recorded in Berlin Miscellany for 1797 was called a very rare event. One observed in 1723 at Bologna was stated to be the first ever seen there. Celsius (1733) states the oldest residents of Uppsala thought the phenomenon a great rarity before 1716. The period between approximately 1645 and 1715 corresponds to the Maunder minimum in sunspot activity.
In Robert W. Service's satirical poem "The Ballad of the Northern Lights" (1908), a Yukon prospector discovers that the aurora is the glow from a radium mine. He stakes his claim, then goes to town looking for investors.
In the early 1900s, the Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland laid the foundation[colloquialism] for current understanding of geomagnetism and polar auroras.
In Sami mythology, the northern lights are caused by the deceased who bled to death cutting themselves, their blood spilling on the sky. Many aboriginal peoples of northern Eurasia and North America share similar beliefs of northern lights being the blood of the deceased, some believing they are caused by dead warriors' blood spraying on the sky as they engage in playing games, riding horses or having fun in some other way.[citation needed]
Extraterrestrial Aurorae
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See also: Magnetosphere of Jupiter § Aurorae
Both Jupiter and Saturn have magnetic fields that are stronger than Earth's (Jupiter's equatorial field strength is 4.3 gauss, compared to 0.3 gauss for Earth), and both have extensive radiation belts. Auroras have been observed on both gas planets, most clearly using the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Cassini and Galileo spacecraft, as well as on Uranus and Neptune.[101]
The aurorae on Saturn seem, like Earth's, to be powered by the solar wind. However, Jupiter's aurorae are more complex. Jupiter's main auroral oval is associated with the plasma produced by the volcanic moon Io, and the transport of this plasma within the planet's magnetosphere. An uncertain fraction of Jupiter's aurorae are powered by the solar wind. In addition, the moons, especially Io, are also powerful sources of aurora. These arise from electric currents along field lines ("field aligned currents"), generated by a dynamo mechanism due to the relative motion between the rotating planet and the moving moon. Io, which has active volcanism and an ionosphere, is a particularly strong source, and its currents also generate radio emissions, which have been studied since 1955. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, auroras over Io, Europa and Ganymede have all been observed.
Auroras have also been observed on Venus and Mars. Venus has no magnetic field and so Venusian auroras appear as bright and diffuse patches of varying shape and intensity, sometimes distributed over the full disc of the planet.[102] A Venusian aurora originates when electrons from the solar wind collide with the night-side atmosphere.
An aurora was detected on Mars, on 14 August 2004, by the SPICAM instrument aboard Mars Express. The aurora was located at Terra Cimmeria, in the region of 177° east, 52° south. The total size of the emission region was about 30 km across, and possibly about 8 km high. By analyzing a map of crustal magnetic anomalies compiled with data from Mars Global Surveyor, scientists observed that the region of the emissions corresponded to an area where the strongest magnetic field is localized. This correlation indicated that the origin of the light emission was a flux of electrons moving along the crust magnetic lines and exciting the upper atmosphere of Mars.[101][103]
Between 2014 and 2016, cometary auroras were observed on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by multiple instruments on the Rosetta spacecraft.[104][105] The auroras were observed at far-ultraviolet wavelengths. Coma observations revealed atomic emissions of hydrogen and oxygen caused by the photodissociation (not photoionization, like in terrestrial auroras) of water molecules in the comet's coma.[105] The interaction of accelerated electrons from the solar wind with gas particles in the coma is responsible for the aurora.[105] Since comet 67P has no magnetic field, the aurora is diffusely spread around the comet.[105]
Exoplanets, such as hot Jupiters, have been suggested to experience ionization in their upper atmospheres and generate an aurora modified by weather in their turbulent tropospheres.[106] However, there is no current detection of an exoplanet aurora.
The first ever extra-solar auroras were discovered in July 2015 over the brown dwarf star LSR J1835+3259.[107] The mainly red aurora was found to be a million times brighter than the northern lights, a result of the charged particles interacting with hydrogen in the atmosphere. It has been speculated that stellar winds may be stripping off material from the surface of the brown dwarf to produce their own electrons. Another possible explanation for the auroras is that an as-yet-undetected body around the dwarf star is throwing off material, as is the case with Jupiter and its moon Io.[108]
See also
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Airglow
Aurora (heraldry)
Heliophysics
List of solar storms
Paschen's law
Space tornado
Space weather
Explanatory notes
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References
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Further reading
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Procter, Henry Richardson (1878). "Aurora Polaris" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. III (9th ed.). pp. 90–99.
Chree, Charles (1911). "Aurora Polaris" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). pp. 927–934. These two both include detailed descriptions of historical observations and descriptions.
Stern, David P. (1996). "A Brief History of Magnetospheric Physics During the Space Age". Reviews of Geophysics. 34 (1): 1–31. Bibcode:1996RvGeo..34....1S. doi:10.1029/95rg03508.
Stern, David P.; Peredo, Mauricio. "The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere". phy6.org.
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Akasofu, Syun-Ichi (April 2002). "Secrets of the Aurora Borealis". Alaska Geographic Series. 29 (1).
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Aurora forecast – Will there be northern lights?
Current global map showing the probability of visible aurora
Aurora – Forecasting (archived 24 November 2016)
Official MET aurora forecasting in Iceland
Aurora Borealis – Predicting
Solar Terrestrial Data – Online Converter – Northern Lights Latitude
Aurora Service Europe – Aurora forecasts for Europe (archived 11 March 2019)
Live Northern Lights webstream Archived 27 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine
World's Best Aurora – The Northwest Territories is the world's Northern Lights mecca.
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“I liken auroras to a silk sheet changing colour and intensity as they are blown by a gentle breeze across the inky black star-filled sky.”
Barend (Barry) Becker – Senior Meteorologist, Casey research station, 2022.
The aurora australis or ‘southern lights’ are the shimmering curtains of green, red and sometimes violet light, appearing in the night sky, around the south magnetic pole. In the northern hemisphere they are called the aurora borealis or ‘northern lights’.
At Australia’s Antarctic and sub-Antarctic stations, expeditioners are among a lucky few who regularly witness the light shows throughout the long winter darkness (check out their tips for aurora photography at the end of this feature).
But auroras are more than just pretty lights.
Auroras are a form of space weather that occur between 90 and 250 kilometres above the ground, and they provide scientists with important clues about what’s happening at the edge of space.
Australian Antarctic Program scientists study a range of atmospheric phenomena that also occur in the auroral zone, and below it, in the stratosphere (12–50 km) and mesosphere (50–80 km).
Their research is contributing to improved models for weather and climate prediction, and a better understanding of the complex atmospheric processes that link what happens in Antarctica with the rest of the world (learn more in Global Atmospheric Links).
Auroras 101
So how do aurora form? Let’s begin with the basics.
Auroras occur in the earth’s upper atmosphere, above about 90 kilometres, when oxygen atoms (O) and nitrogen molecules (N2) interact with a stream of charged particles emitted by the sun.
This ‘solar wind’ blasts out from the sun and connects with the earth’s magnetic field at speeds of 400–700 kilometres per second.
While most of the charged particles in the solar wind hurtle into space, some of them become trapped within the earth’s magnetic field and are accelerated towards the magnetic poles at tens of thousands of kilometres per second.
When these particles collide with gases in the earth’s atmosphere, the energy from the collision can be released as light. Depending on the altitude, the gas (O or N2) and the energy of the collision, the light is either green, red or violet.
While some aurora may appear pink or white, this is usually due to low light perception or camera colour bias.
Here’s how to make an aurora…
This NASA video shows an aurora over Antarctica, viewed from the International Space Station.
Although aurora can occur at any time, we can only see them in darkness, and usually within the ‘auroral oval’ – a belt around the magnetic poles that expands or contracts depending on the strength of the solar wind.
In the southern hemisphere, the auroral oval is generally located over the Southern Ocean and parts of Antarctica. During intense solar activity, it can stretch north to Tasmania and the southern part of mainland Australia.
In the northern hemisphere, aurora can be seen in places like Greenland, Scandinavia, and parts of Canada and Siberia.
Recipe for an aurora
When you look at what it takes to create an aurora, it’s amazing that the phenomenon occurs at all. Consider these ingredients:
A solar wind of charged particles streaming from the sun
A planet with a magnetic field
A way of accelerating particles, or ‘magnetic reconnection’
A planetary atmosphere containing oxygen and nitrogen
The ability of these gases to emit light in the visible spectrum (i.e. that we can see)
Perfect timing
And if you want to see an aurora, you have to be in the right location.
Between 2019 and 2021, Davis station expeditioner Will Kenton was in the right place at the right time to capture this series of incredible aurora...
Solar wind
Let's look at the first ingredient needed to create an aurora – the sun.
This star at the centre of our solar system, is an incandescent ball of plasma made up of hydrogen and helium gas, heated to 15 million degrees Celsius by nuclear fusion reactions at its core.
The sun loses about 4.29 million tonnes of its mass per second. About 70% of this mass is released as energy (heat and light) and 30% is ejected as a stream of charged particles called the solar wind.
The solar wind consists mostly of negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons, moving at incredible speeds.
To escape the sun’s gravity, they need to be moving at a speed of at least 618 kilometres per second! But even at these speeds, they take two to four days to cover the 150 million kilometres distance between the sun and the earth.
The intensity of the solar wind varies depending on solar activity over an 11 year solar cycle. Solar activity is driven by changes in the sun’s magnetic field during this cycle, and includes sunspots, coronal mass ejections, solar flares and other phenomena.
In fact, we are currently in an active solar cycle, with a maximum predicted in July 2025.
So what happens when the solar wind hits earth?
Earth as a magnet
The second ingredient in the aurora recipe is the earth’s magnetic field.
The earth has a solid inner core and a molten outer core comprised mainly of iron and nickel. Intense heat from the core – between 5000°C and 7000°C – creates movement within the liquid outer core, which generates electric currents and turns the earth into a magnet.
The resulting magnetic field, or ‘magnetosphere’, extends from the earth’s interior into outer space. Like a giant shield, it protects the earth from the sun’s solar wind, which would otherwise strip away the delicate atmosphere that protects us from ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
The earth’s magnetic field forms closed semi-circular loops around the planet, radiating out from the north and south magnetic poles (close to the geographic poles).
When the solar wind hits the magnetic field on the sunward side of the earth, it compresses and disrupts these field lines, creating a ‘bow wave’ at the front, and a long tail on the night side of the earth.
This disruption causes a temporary distortion in the shield, allowing some electrons to breach the magnetosphere and become trapped inside.
When the shield realigns itself (a process called magnetic reconnection – the third ingredient in this recipe) it provides a massive energy boost to the electrons, which are propelled even faster down the field lines towards the poles, often between 18,000 and 38,000 kilometres per second.
These fugitive solar wind particles can cause space weather that interferes with satellites, spacecraft, aircraft, telecommunications and electricity supplies. They also create auroras.
Southern light show
When the speeding electrons spiral down the magnetic field lines near the poles they collide with atmospheric gases, in particular oxygen atoms (O) and nitrogen molecules (N2), between 90 and 250 kilometres above the earth.
The collisions transfer energy from the solar wind electrons to the O and N2 gases, exciting them to a higher energy level. However these excited gases can only hold on to this extra energy for a short time before they lose it, in one of two ways:
colliding with other gases in the atmosphere – the lower the altitude the denser the atmosphere, and the more likely that gases will bump into each other
emitting the energy as a photon of light – either red, green or violet – to create an aurora.
Oxygen atoms emit red light at high altitudes, between 150–250 kilometres up, when they collide with electrons travelling at least 830 kilometres per second.
Oxygen holds on to this collision energy for about 120 seconds before it is released as light. Red emissions only appear in the thin upper atmosphere, where the excited oxygen atoms are less likely to lose their energy by bumping into other gases.
Oxygen atoms also emit green light at lower altitudes, 100–150 kilometres up, when excited by electron collisions exceeding 1,200 kilometres per second.
Although the atmosphere is denser at this altitude, oxygen holds this collision energy for only 0.7 seconds before releasing it as light – leaving little time to bump into other gases.
Nitrogen molecules instantly emit violet and red light (in 6 microseconds) following collisions with electrons moving at least 1,600 kilometres per second, between 90 and 100 kilometres up.
Violet emissions are rare in this very dense atmosphere, and form a fringe at the base of the aurora.
Predicting aurora
Auroras can be predicted (but not guaranteed), hours or days ahead of time, based on observations of the sun, satellite measurements of the solar wind, and modelled changes in the earth’s geomagnetic activity, due to solar activity.
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology provides a space weather alert system, issuing reports every day to warn Government, industry, aviation and others of potentially damaging events, giving them time to prepare or take precautions.
Of course this information is also useful for the enthusiastic ‘aurora watchers’ around the country, who can subscribe to the Bureau’s aurora alerts.
Those lucky enough to have seen an aurora will have a great story to tell. But perhaps even better is Dr John French’s story of ‘the one that got away’.
In 1989, the young Australian Antarctic Division atmospheric physicist was newly arrived at Mawson research station to spend a winter studying auroral physics and sodium emissions in the atmosphere.
As the winter darkness closed in, expeditioners on station were excited at the prospect of seeing an aurora and turned to John for advice on when it might happen.
“I was looking at the Ionospheric Prediction Service reports and one came through showing that the biggest category of solar flare – an X15 class – had occurred, and that an intense cloud of solar wind particles was due to arrive in the next 2 or 3 days,” he recalled.
“So I wrote on the whiteboard that it was going to be a huge auroral event and people should come outside with their sunglasses at around 1 am, when it would be dark enough to see.”
Two days later though, sunglasses in hand, a disappointed group of expeditioners saw nothing.
“The event was so huge that it pushed the magnetic field and the auroral oval towards lower latitudes. It was no-where near Mawson and we didn’t see anything because we were inside the polar cap.
"But people saw it in places you rarely see them, like Adelaide, Toowoomba and Uluru – it was unheard of,” he said.
In fact the 1989 geomagnetic storm was the most severe on record since an event 1921. The 1989 storm caused power blackouts in Canada and the US, as well as radio communication blackouts and satellite anomalies.
Just as the geomagnetic storms that cause aurora can disrupt human infrastructure around the world, changes in the atmosphere above Antarctica are often an early warning indicator of global climate change, caused by a build-up of greenhouse gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide.
For example, Antarctic scientists at Davis research station have found that while the lower atmosphere globally has warmed by about 1°C over the past 100 years, the upper atmosphere – the mesosphere – has cooled at more than 10 times that rate (1.2°C per decade), as carbon dioxide radiates heat into space.
This temperature change coincides with an increase in the rarely seen ‘noctilucent’ or ‘night shining’ clouds over the poles, in summer.
These ice crystal clouds form in the polar mesopause, about 83 km up, where temperatures reach as low as −140°C.
Their appearance is thought to be linked to cooler temperatures at this altitude due to carbon dioxide, and increased methane emissions that increases water vapour in the mesosphere – leading to cloud formation.
Alien aurora
Did you know that aurora occur on other planets?
Any planet that lies in the path of the solar wind, with a dense enough atmosphere and a magnetic field, will have auroras. These include Jupiter (and its moons), and Saturn.
Although Mars doesn’t have a planetary magnetic field, it does have localised areas of a remnant magnetic field, where auroras can form.
Saturn lays claim to the highest-known ‘northern lights’ in the solar system, which stretch along its magnetic field more than 1,200 kilometres above the planet.
Saturn, Jupiter and Mars produce ultraviolet aurora, which can only be seen using instruments sensitive to UV radiation.
How to photograph aurora
Many of Australia’s Antarctic expeditioners are experts in the art of aurora photography and videography. Here 2 of them provide their tips:
Barry Becker – Senior Meteorologist at Casey, 2022
Barry has been photographing aurora in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic since he went to Macquarie Island research station in 2014. Check out his photos at barendbecker.com
I recommend a solid tripod and high quality lens. I use a Nikon mirrorless Z7 with a 20 mm, f/1.8 prime lens. My gear is quite expensive, but any decent SLR or mirrorless camera will do. My advice is to spend as much as you are able, or can afford, on your gear.
Astro and aurora photography is a unique craft so be willing to learn from others’ experience.
I have developed this method:
When I first go out of the building to do some astro/aurora photography I set my camera to ISO 320 and my shutter speed to 1/15 sec. I auto focus on a distant light source (50–100 metres away).
Then I move the focus to Manual. If I have done this correctly, my focus is right for crisp, clear stars.
Find a place where there is no light pollution – this is difficult.
Set the camera on the tripod and point to the aurora (weak or strong). I start with a 15 sec exposure and lowest f-stop (f/1.8 for me).
Set the self-timer to 5 sec to remove any camera shake when you press the shutter button.
As I shoot in Manual mode I can adjust the exposure time, f-stop and ISO, to the conditions – whether the aurora is weak or strong, static or dynamic.
I use photo editing software to make minor adjustments to white balance, black, white, exposure, luminance, sharpness and so on.
Justin Chambers – Casey station Chef, 2022
Justin has spent more than 9 years working in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic, including wintering at Davis, Mawson, Casey and Macquarie Island.
“I could honestly talk about aurora photography for days – it makes me so happy,” he says.
Justin has these tips to bring the “dancing lights” to life:
Use a strong, rigid tripod. Any breeze can shake the camera and blur distant objects.
Use a fast lens of f/2.8 or faster, to allow minimal time for the camera to receive light on the sensor.
Use a wide-angle lens, between 10 and 20 mm, to showcase the majority of stars and auroras, and minimise blur from the earth’s rotation.
Set the self-timer for 2–5 seconds before each shot, to prevent camera shake when you press the shutter button.
Manually focus the lens either during the day or with a strong source of light at night to focus on. Sharp infinity should be set and remain with manual control.
Use a head torch to adjust camera settings, and prevent slips and falls moving to and from your destination.
Level the horizon. Take a few test shots to get it right.
Find a nice feature to add context to the shot. Mountains, sculptures, buildings, islands and lakes all give a photo context and interest.
Remove any lens filters. UV filters and the like are redundant for astral photography and can often impede a perfect shot.
Constantly adjust your settings to find the right balance between ISO, f-stop and shutter speed, to get maximum results and minimal noise.
The phase of the moon will influence your settings. Typically on a new moon my settings would be 14 mm, f/2.8, ISO 800, 25 seconds. On a full moon I’d use 14mm, f/2.8, ISO 200, 10 seconds.
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Wow, what a wondrous image of the aurora over the city of Palmer, Alaska! In fact, it's one of the best aurora images I've ever seen! But wait, why did the photographer wait until July 26 to post this shot, about three months after aurora photography is no longer possible at this latitude in Alaska? If you took a jaw-dropping image like this, wouldn't you post it immediately? Seems a bit strange...
In the comments someone asks where the photo was taken and the photographer responds, "Hatcher Pass. Had friend stay by camera half way up Independence Mine and I walked down to where I'm standing in the picture." Hmm, so you left it up to your friend to take this amazing shot and somehow the composition and exposure turned out perfectly, even though the aurora could have shifted and changed brightness during the time you were walking? Must have been lucky, I guess.
Hold on a second, though...If you're in Hatcher Pass looking toward Palmer, wouldn't you be facing due south? This must have been one crazy show if the northern lights rose in the south in a formation that looks like a typical aurora band over the northern horizon. And you must have been using a fairly long focal length for the mountains in the distance to look so big, which means this must have been a really short exposure to prevent star trails. But if this were a really short exposure, then why are there so many bright stars? And those clouds in the distance must have been moving really fast to appear so blurry.
Something else doesn't look right. Moonlight is illuminating the eastern faces of the mountains, but it isn't illuminating the clouds? And if the moon is bright enough to light up the landscape in this image, why is the sky so dark? Moonlight is scattered by the sky just like sunlight and will make the sky look blue in a long exposure.
Let's see, I could definitively prove this image is fake by identifying the stars in the sky and demonstrating they could never appear in that direction...or I can just scroll through your Instagram feed to find these:
These two photos look awfully familiar. Notice in the first (which serves as the foreground in the fake photo, albeit with additional processing) that the sky is a shade of blue and there are only a few visible stars, which are leaving trails across the sky. In the second, notice the mountains in the foreground look much smaller and darker than in the fake photo, and the clouds appear much closer.
Unfortunately, Instagram and other social media platforms are full of amateur photographers who are only interested in building a large following and some of them are willing to dupe their thousands of followers for the sake of gaining more. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is!
For tips on creating REAL aurora images, read my free Aurora Photography Guide.
Interested in Aurora Borealis Photography Tours? Contact me for more information!
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I get this question very frequently, whenever I post a photo depicting the Aurora Borealis.
The answer is simple, but complicated: It depends. 🙂 There is no universal recipe for photographing the Northern Lights, but there are some general aspects that have to be taken care of.
First, you need a tripod. Yup, it’s more important than the camera. Why is that? Usually, you are going to shoot the Aurora from polar or sub-polar regions. Quite often, that means pretty strong winds. And we don’t want comma shaped stars, right? So, get the sturdiest tripod you can afford. If it’s not rigid enough, you can hang some sort of weight to your tripod. Most tripods will have a hook, under the central column. Hang anything heavy from it: your backpack, a bottle of water, a rock, your fat cat etc.
Then, you need a camera. Basically, almost any digital camera nowadays (even some mobile phone cameras) will be able to get decent photos of the Lights. The best option would be a DSLR or a mirrorless that gives you full manual control (exposure, aperture, ISO and focus). I use a Canon EOS 5D Mark III for Northern Lights photography, but I got great shots with an Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II camera, too (the Live Composite mode of the Oly is pretty useful in Aurora photography).
In terms of lenses, you need a fast wide angle one. f/2.8 would be awesome. Usually, you don’t want to shoot the Aurora with a focal length longer than 35 mm. A fisheye lens might be useful for those very high activity nights.
A cable/infrared/radio release would also be very useful. I prefer the cable version as you don’t need batteries to operate it, and that’s pretty important when you’re shooting in the cold. If you don’t have one, you can use the self timer feature on your camera. You need this to get rid of vibrations induced by actually pressing the shutter button.
As long as we talked about cold conditions, it’s a good idea to have 2 or three spare batteries and a few memory cards.
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Probably the most challenging part of the actual shooting is focusing. Your auto-focus won’t work in the dark, so this is how to do it. Set the camera on manual focus, open the aperture as much as you can, turn on the live view and set a high ISO (around 6400, if possible). If you’re using a zoom lens, set the focal length. If you want to change it later, you will have to refocus. Now, point your camera to the sky and find a brighter star in the field of view of your camera. Centre the star and zoom in the live view image (not by using the zoom ring on your lens, but the controls on the back of your camera; read the manual of your camera, if you don’t know how to do it). Now, gently move the focusing ring of your lens and get that star into focus. Once focus is achieved, carefully tape down both the focus and the zoom ring (if there is one) on your lens, using some gaffer tape. Even though you taped the rings, try as much as possible not to touch the rings from now on, unless you need to change settings.
Now, it’s pretty tricky to give you any advice on the exposure time and ISO. And that’s because the behaviour of the Northern Lights is unpredictable. They can be static and, in a matter of seconds, they can start moving like there’s no tomorrow. That’s why you have to adapt to the Lights. One thing is sure: open up the aperture as much as you can. As a general rule, if the Lights are static you can try ISO’s between 800 and 1600 and exposure times of 10 to 20 seconds. If the lights move very fast, you will need high ISO (3200 to 6400) and short exposure times (sometimes below 3 seconds; I have even shot Northern Lights at 0.5 seconds).
Be careful with your maximum exposure time, so that you don’t get trailing stars. We want the stars to be points of light, not small arcs. It’s a simple formula that gives you this value: 500 divided by the focal length (full frame equivalent) of your lens (t = 500/fl, where fl = focal length and t = maximum exposure time for point stars). Stay below that number and you will get nice point like stars.
Another thing to be careful with is framing. Try to include some terrestrial elements and/or people in the photo and use the rule of thirds. The results will be a lot better than shooting just the sky. Of course, shoot RAW files. Many photographers will tell you to avoid Moon lit nights when shooting the Northern or Southern Lights. I tell you the contrary. The landscape will always look better when you have the Moon present in the sky. Moonless nights will make all terrestrial elements look dark and featureless. I don’t like that at all.
Last, but totally not least, take the time and look at the Aurora with your own eyes. It’s a mind blowing experience. Yes, the Lights will look a lot more saturated and brighter in your photos, because of the way cameras see the world, but experiencing a strong display of the Northern Lights with your naked eye could be life changing.
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There’s a once-in-a-generation display of the aurora happening today (maybe through this week). Here in Colorado, dancing lights are visible with the naked eye. It’s a good time to revisit this guest article from Ajit Menon with all the info you need for photographing them!
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This article is intended to be a general starter guide to photographing the Northern lights. The title is perhaps misleading as the “Northern Lights” are not just a phenomenon of the Northern hemisphere but also occur in the Southern Hemisphere. In the North, it’s generally referred to as the Aurora Borealis whereas in the south, it goes by Aurora Australis. However, my experience has generally been shooting the Northern Lights in Norway and Iceland, and this is what I will now expand upon.
1) Where to photograph the Northern Lights
The Northern Lights are best visible in the high latitude regions of the Earth, generally north of the Arctic Circle. Of late, the most popular places to photograph this phenomenon have been in Iceland, Scandinavian countries like Norway, Finland and Sweden and Greenland. As you can see in the above image which is downloaded from www.spaceweather.com, you can see the aurora oval (as of March 18, 2015) in the Northern Hemisphere – in this image, parts of northern Canada and the northernmost fringes of Scandinavia and Russia seem to have the best display.
My own experiences have been photographing these in Iceland as well as in the Lofoten Islands of northern Norway although Greenland has also become popular in recent years and there are lots of photo tours geared toward Northern Lights photography to all these destinations.
2) When to photograph the Northern Lights
The Northern Lights are typically visible year-round; however, as is obvious, they can only be seen or photographed when the sky is relatively dark. Because of the incredible fluctuation of day-night lengths in the Arctic latitudes, the period entering fall (around mid-September) when you begin to once-again have 10-12 hour nights and longer until early spring (early March) are the best periods to photograph this phenomenon.
Obviously, these periods can be quite cold so high up North so the entire process can be quite challenging occasionally. The weather can also run amok but this is the fun of it – the challenge and the wait can be quite rewarding.
But speaking of the weather, it is very necessary to always keep an out for it. Oftentimes, the aurora predictions are high but cloud cover can spoil the fun and prevent you from seeing any of it. The picture below is of the well-known Gulfoss waterfall in Iceland. As you can see, I caught a glimpse of the aurora through the thick cloud cover. The cloud movement was quite swift and within the next 10-15 minutes or so, there wasn’t much shooting left to do. However I was quite pleased with this photo and I feel the cloud cover helps create a dramatic visual opening and complements the form of the waterfall quite nicely. A clear sky may have resulted in a very typical image and the aurora activity wasn’t really that strong that evening. This just goes to show how even the negatives can sometimes be quite beneficial if you are in the right place at the right time.
But the above image is the exception to the rule. Cloud cover can invariably threaten a good night’s photography and even with high aurora activity, sometimes you need just a bit of luck to be able to view it at all. It’s helpful to note a few online websites can be used to give you a rough forecast for Aurora activity and regular weather. In Iceland for example, the national meteorological office http://en.vedur.is/weather/forecasts/aurora/ is a good source. The website not only shows you the cloud cover across Iceland (green is heavy cloud cover, white is clear), it also shows you the scale of Aurora activity on any given day. A scale of 1-2 is quite mild and you may see some hazy movement across the sky. 3 is moderate but 4 onwards represents quite a lot of activity and you can see it quite clearly with the naked eye. Incredibly, this past St Patrick’s day solar storm created auroral activity of the magnitude of almost 9. The activity was so off the charts that it was supposedly visible even down here in New York, albeit quite faint. I was quite jealous of a few photographers I follow on facebook who were posting the most insane aurora photos I had ever seen in Iceland.
The above is a screengrab from vedur.is showing the aurora forecast.
Other than the Icelandic met office, a few other good sources to check aurora forecasts are:
– http://www.yr.no (Norwegian met office)
– http://kho.unis.no
– http://www.spaceweather.com
3) How to photograph the Northern lights
And now we come to the meat of the matter. How do we photograph this? The essentials are quite simple – a good fast wide-angle lens, a DSLR/mirrorless camera capable of good high-ISO quality and a good sturdy tripod.
3.1) Camera
Most modern digital cameras are becoming quite capable of shooting relatively clean pictures at ISOs of 1600 and above. Generally, cameras with full-frame sensors will give you the best quality at high ISOs, though the latest breed of smaller sensor cameras are no slouches either. I’ve shot a lot of auroras with my older Nikon D800 at ISO 3200, and if exposed correctly, the images are quite clean to my taste. Newer generations like the D850 and Z8 only improve upon that performance.
Lens choice is also greatly impacted by type of camera used since the same lens on a crop-factor sensor will not be as wide as on a full frame camera.
3.2) Lens
Speaking of lenses, any fast lens is usable, but generally, the wider angle lenses are best as they give you enough “reach” into the sky to capture as much of the activity as possible. In the two images below, the photo on the left was shot with the Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 lens whereas the one on the right was shot with my Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 at 14mm. What the 14mm focal length allowed me to do that night was to be able to frame the entire mountain and it’s reflection with enough of the sky to follow the aurora.
Having the 14mm to 24mm range also allows some flexibility in framing which the prime does not. That said, there are other fast primes around, such as the Nikon 20mm f/1.8. These offer the advantage of 1-2 stops of extra light, meaning you can either reduce your ISO (for greater dynamic range) or reduce your shutter to get more detail in your exposure.
Some of you may worry that the fast lenses might result in shallow depth of field. But in general, to photograph something so distant in the sky, you would be focusing at infinity anyway. Unless you are also including a foreground object in your composition, you should generally have no worries other than the noise from the higher ISOs.
One tricky aspect of an autofocus lens is that it can be quite difficult to focus in a near pitch black environment. My manual focus Zeiss prime is fantastic since all I need to do is to turn the focus ring all the way to the end, and it’s at infinity. With an autofocus lens, the trick here is to pre-focus on something far in the distance, then switch your lens to manual focus and don’t touch it again. Some photographers even fix their lens focus ring to infinity using duct tape. The other option is to ask a companion to stand far away, then use their phone as a bright source to focus on. With a very wide angle lens such as the 14-24mm, a distance of about 20-30 feet should give you pretty close to infinity focus.
Aurora movement can vary – sometimes it dances slowly across the sky; sometimes it is quite fast and energetic and breathtakingly beautiful. A very long exposure will result in “smearing” of auroral activity so the shorter the exposure time, the better.
3.3) Tripod
A tripod is a must, but any semi-serious photographer probably has one already. In this case though, there are probably a few details to be conscious of as a precaution.
Most of us travel great distances to witness and photograph the Northern Lights. So it is imperative to pack your gear in a way that is easy to be carried around. Regarding tripods, it’s generally a given that a solid carbon fiber tripod will be a good investment in the long run. The weather in such locations can be quite finicky so if your tripod is too light, you may get blurry photos due to strong winds. Induro and Sirui have some nice affordable tripods while on the higher end, Gitzo and RRS have sturdy tripods that be extended quite tall if necessary.
Tripod care is a must too. In extremely cold temperatures, some carbon fiber materials might get stiff and brittle; so good care is necessary so you don’t snap a leg while folding it back together. Also if one or more of your tripod legs is submerged under (sea) water while shooting, it’s generally a good idea to clean the legs as soon as possible to prevent accumulation of saline matter.
3.4) Technique
The basics are quite simple. As a starter rule, open your lens to its widest aperture, set your ISO to about 1600, and shoot an exposure of 10-15 seconds. Aurora activity – even bright activity – is still quite dark to the camera sensor; so even at high ISO, you need a relatively long exposure of about 10-15 seconds. Most of my aurora shots have been with lenses with a maximum aperture of f/2.8. With a lens such as the 24mm 1.4, you could get a 2-stop advantage and either shoot at a lower ISO to get cleaner files with greater dynamic range; or shoot a shorter exposure so you can get a lot more detail and prevent long-exposure “smearing”.
The general idea is to shoot so that you have a well exposed histogram. Once you shoot your first test exposure, you should get a good idea if it’s too bright or too dark and compensate accordingly. Generally the light from the aurora comes through quite nicely but any foreground landscape will be much darker. If not exposed properly, the shadow detail will be very hard to recover. Some photographers sometimes shoot the aurora at their optimal settings, then later capture a much longer exposure to get the maximum detail in the foreground. On occasion when you have a foreground object such as a rock very close to camera, some photographers even shoot multiple photographs at varying focal distances and then focus stack the result in photoshop.
Of course, it’s quite difficult to compose a picture in the dark. My personal trick is to boost the ISO to the max so I can take a brief 2-3 second shot and understand what I am framing. Once I am happy, I can bring down the settings to their optimal values. If you can level your tripod as well as your camera, you should then be able to swing the camera around as necessary and photograph to your heart’s content.
The images above shows a series of images I shot in the Snæfellsnes peninsula of Iceland, looking at the lovely Kirkjufell. This aurora display was perhaps the most amazing display I had ever seen. It was very clear and beautiful and incredibly active and went for a good tow hours. This transition of the Aurora waves happened in a 4 minute period and each frame was shot for 13 seconds at ISO 2500 at 14mm.
This set shows you another sequence I shot at the same location during that very same aurora display. Once again, you can see how the aurora dances across the sky weaving elegant light streaks across the sky. Since I shot this right across from the highway, you can see the light spill from vehicles in a couple of shots. I also cloned out the couple of lone photographers on the beach in the final image I posted.
3.5) Post-processing
Well the difficult part is shooting the aurora. Generally any form of processing will yield a presentable result given that the composition is an appealing one. The below image, which I will use as a first example is an image I shot at Jökulsárlón, the famous glacier lagoon in Iceland during that same trip and I was lucky to see a display of the Northern Lights here. What did come as an unexpected surprise is the orange haze on the far right. At the time of shooting, I could see a faint glow and supposed it to be light pollution from a neighbouring town. It was only after I had returned and shared my image, that several commentators mentioned that this glow was most likely pollution from the Holuhraun volcanic eruption in the Bardarbunga caldera. This makes this image quite unique to me, and the aurora was a bonus. That said, this wasn’t the most brilliant display I had seen and the brief but more interesting displays were in a direction across from me, but without any form of foreground I could accentuate it against.
Coming back to the processing part, below is a series showing three stages of the process.
The original RAW file had a heavy green cast which is what you will normally see when you shoot the auroras. However, it does look rather dull and presently, I enjoy shifting the white balance to a cooler tone; just enough to reveal the dark blue tones of the sky. Now you can argue that the green cast is obviously the true colour of the scene and I would agree, but given the artistic license I wanted to exercise, I felt the rich blue tones of the iceberg accentuated the colour of the image quite brilliantly; contrasting the greens and the blues with the orange-red haze of the volcanic pollution makes it even more amazing to me.
The final image has some further creative license; I balanced the tones of the iceberg by lifting them with a grad and contrasting the sky a tad. However these are personal preferences and are in no way the only way it should be done; this is just a guide of the process that I used on this image.
Below is another example of white balance. In this case, the choice of white balance is not as clear-cut. Balancing to match the blue sky (D) gives a very cool, yet alien rendition and the most appealing ones would be either (B) which just amplifies the scene as I saw it or even C which balances the tones to the white of the snow.
Below is yet another image from that same evening at Jökulsárlón. The aurora had waned quite a bit and all that was visible was just the leftover green haze on the right, but once again, bisecting the Milky Way almost precisely and giving me yet another three-part composition.
As you can see from all these images, there is a lot of variety in the shape and movement of this bizarrely beautiful phenomenon. These images were perhaps the most presentable of my personal collection and were shot during just two trips. I was immensely lucky to witness some beautiful moments and I hope to see it a few more times in my lifetime. Until then, here is one last image – quite a weak aurora but still a pleasantly beautiful footnote to a beautiful phenomenon.
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A powerful solar storm put on an amazing skyward light show across the globe overnight but has caused what appeared to be only minor disruptions to the electric power grid, communications and satellite positioning systems.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said extreme geomagnetic storm conditions continued Saturday, and there were preliminary reports of power grid irregularities, degradation of high-frequency communications and global positioning systems.
But the Federal Emergency Management Agency said that as of midday Saturday morning, no FEMA region had reported any significant impact from the storms.
NOAA predicted that strong flares will continue through at least Sunday, and a spokeswoman said in an email that the agency’s Space Weather Prediction Center had prepared well for the storm.
On Saturday morning, SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service said on its website that service had been degraded and its team was investigating. CEO Elon Musk wrote on X overnight that its satellites were “under a lot of pressure, but holding up so far.”
Brilliant purple, green, yellow and pink hues of the Northern Lights were reported worldwide, with sightings in Germany, Switzerland, China, England, Spain and elsewhere.
In the U.S., Friday’s solar storm pushed the lights much further south than normal. The Miami office of the National Weather Service confirmed sightings in the Fort Lauderdale and Fort Myers, Florida, areas. Meteorologist Nick Carr said another forecaster who lives near Fort Lauderdale photographed the lights and was familiar with them because he previously lived in Alaska.
People in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and other Midwestern states were able to capture photos of bright colors along the horizon.
NOAA said the solar storm will persist throughout the weekend, offering another chance for many to catch the Northern Lights on Saturday night.
The agency issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning when a solar outburst reached Earth on Friday afternoon, hours sooner than anticipated.
NOAA alerted operators of power plants and spacecraft in orbit, as well as FEMA, to take precautions.
“For most people here on planet Earth, they won’t have to do anything,” said Rob Steenburgh, a scientist with NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
“That’s really the gift from space weather: the aurora,” Steenburgh said. He and his colleagues said the best aurora views may come from phone cameras, which are better at capturing light than the naked eye.
Snap a picture of the sky and “there might be actually a nice little treat there for you,” said Mike Bettwy, operations chief for the prediction center.
The most intense solar storm in recorded history, in 1859, prompted auroras in central America and possibly even Hawaii.
This storm poses a risk for high-voltage transmission lines for power grids, not the electrical lines ordinarily found in people’s homes, NOAA space weather forecaster Shawn Dahl told reporters. Satellites also could be affected, which in turn could disrupt navigation and communication services here on Earth.
An extreme geomagnetic storm in 2003, for example, took out power in Sweden and damaged power transformers in South Africa.
Even when the storm is over, signals between GPS satellites and ground receivers could be scrambled or lost, according to NOAA. But there are so many navigation satellites that any outages should not last long, Steenburgh noted.
The sun has produced strong solar flares since Wednesday, resulting in at least seven outbursts of plasma. Each eruption, known as a coronal mass ejection, can contain billions of tons of plasma and magnetic field from the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona.
The flares seem to be associated with a sunspot that’s 16 times the diameter of Earth, NOAA said. It is all part of the solar activity ramping up as the sun approaches the peak of its 11-year cycle.
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Dunn reported from Cape Canaveral, Florida, while Krisher reported from Detroit and Funk from Omaha, Nebraska.
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Across the Arctic, people have revered—and sometimes feared—eerie, shifting lights that arrived without warning in the night sky and never appeared the same...
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Across the Arctic, people have revered—and sometimes feared—eerie, shifting lights that arrived without warning in the night sky and never appeared the same way twice. Ancient explanations for the lights vary widely among the Saami, Tlingit, Vikings, and other northern cultures, changing from one fjord to the next and over centuries. The aurora borealis, or northern lights, have been described as the spirits of women who never married or of the stillborn; as restless, lonely souls of those who died from suicide or murder; as reflections glinting off the armor of fierce Valkyries; as malevolent spirits who might chop off your head if you whistled at them too loudly. Regardless of how they were explained, it appears that everyone who witnessed the lights was filled with wonder and the need to understand the phenomenon.
The first known documentation of auroras was more than 4,500 years ago in China, but some archaeologists have interpreted much older cave art as depictions of prehistoric auroral displays in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Auroras occur near both poles, but are more commonly reported in northern high latitudes simply because most humans—more than 80 percent—live north of the equator.
Science has since sorted out most of the details about what auroras really are. Charged particles borne on a solar wind smack into Earth’s magnetic field and transfer their energy to oxygen and nitrogen in our upper atmosphere. The explosive process creates brief bursts of light, typically green and sometimes red (both from oxygen) and less commonly blue (from nitrogen), in regions near but not at the geomagnetic poles. (The exact area where auroras are visible, a band known as the auroral oval, fluctuates based on solar wind activity and shifts in the magnetic field, which also affect how individual auroras appear.) While the origin of auroras is no longer a mystery, these elusive, hauntingly beautiful phenomena still mesmerize anyone fortunate enough to see them.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - With the northern lights in the Kentucky sky Friday night, hundreds of photos were sent capturing the amazing spectacle.
If you didn’t see them in the night sky last night, you can see them again Saturday night as well.
To capture the northern lights, here are a few tips to get the best shot!
Ensure you are away from city lights or any potential light pollution (at least 15 miles away is far enough). Once you are away from city lights, look towards the northern horizon of the sky.
iPhone 11 or newer devices have a mode called “night mode” to capture photos in darker scenes. This mode truly captures the northern lights under clearer sky conditions. To use this feature, ensure your iPhone is in “Photo” mode (not video or portrait).
Utilizing this feature requires the user and device to be still to avoid motion blur while capturing the photo. It may be beneficial to prop your phone against a structure or object that won’t move to provide additional stability.
Swiping up on your screen while the camera app is open should display a circular moon icon with lines behind it. A slider will then allow you to select a time that your camera will allow additional light into its lens to show the northern lights. Using the “auto” option should allow enough time.
Press capture and stay still! While the photo is being taken, yellow and white crosshairs may show up if your phone has slightly moved during capture. If this happens, line the crosshairs up to the original direction you were taking the photo. If you do not see the crosshairs, you are staying perfectly still!
Be sure to share your images with the WBKO First Alert Weather Team by submitting them through our photo portal.
If you are feeling up for the challenge, you can also capture time lapses using night mode as well!
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Social media has once again lit up with the spectacle of aurora australis, also known as the Southern Lights, as it became visible in some skies across the southern states last night.
The lights – which aren’t seen outside the south polar region very often – were last sighted in May, unusually far north in the skies of Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa.
Despite (or maybe because of) their infrequent appearance, the Southern Lights have long inspired humans. From as far back as early Aboriginal ancestral accounts, to recent contemporary art, they have continued to ignite our imagination. Let’s take a look at some examples.
Visual works
1. Pavel Mikhailov
Pavel Mikhailov (1787–1840) was a Russian expedition artist with the Imperial Russian Navy’s first Antarctic expedition, which sailed from 1819 to 1821.
Captained by Fabian Bellingshausen, the voyage circumnavigated the south polar seas in search of the fabled “southern continent” which Captain James Cook had hoped to find some 50 years earlier.
In 1820, Bellingshausen’s became one of three expeditions to glimpse the edges of the continent (the others were headed by Irish-British explorer Edward Bransfield and US explorer Nathaniel Palmer).
Although there are much earlier accounts of aurora australis, Mikhailov’s watercolour – reproduced from a sketch he drew on March 2 1820, is one of the first painted depictions to come straight from Antarctic waters.
The expedition’s astronomer noted in his diary:
I saw three shining pillars […] the colour of a comet’s tail. Long did I gaze at that aurora.
2. Edward Roper
Painter and printer Edward Roper (1854–1909) was born in the United Kingdom and lived between the UK, Canada and Australia in the late 19th century.
His 1870 portrayal of an aurora seen from Port Phillip, Melbourne, shares a striking resemblance to Mikhailov’s painting (albeit minus the icebergs). The red tinge in the rays of light indicates Roper’s lower-latitude viewpoint.
3. Edward Wilson
Edward Adrian Wilson (1872–1912) was a naturalist, physician and expedition artist with both of British Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic expeditions, Discovery (1901–04) and Terra Nova (1910–13). Throughout these, Wilson faithfully recorded Antarctica’s landscapes, wildlife and atmospheric phenomena for the benefit of science.
His white-on-black chalk sketches of south polar aurorae emphasise the shape of the various formations as seen in the winter of 1902. He meticulously recorded the date, time and a descriptive title with each of his drawings.
4. George Marston
George Edward Marston (1882–1940) was the expedition artist for famous explorer Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod (1907–09) and Imperial Trans-Antarctic (1914–17) expeditions.
In 1908, during his first Antarctic winter, Marston used oil paints to capture the aurora australis. In his atmospheric scene the air is still, the night is clear and sled dogs frolic in the snow under the blue/green glow of the moonlight and the aurora. The Cape Royds expedition hut (now a protected historic site) blends into the hillside while three men brave the cold to watch the lights perform over Mount Erebus.
5. George Marston
Worthy of a second mention, Marston produced the images for “Aurora Australis”, the first book to be written, printed and published in Antarctica. Copies are highly prized, as fewer than 100 were lovingly hand-printed during the dark and frigid winter months of 1908. The title page features Marston’s lithographic print of the aurora australis dancing above Mount Erebus, the southernmost active volcano.
6. David Abbey-Paige
David Abbey-Paige (1901–1978) was the official expedition artist with Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd’s second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935). The artist worked almost exclusively in pastels in Antarctica to avoid the issue of freezing paints. His drawings are a celebration of polar light and colour.
In one drawing, a lone emperor penguin stands in an icescape illuminated by a stream of green auroral light.
7. Stephen Eastaugh
Stephen Eastaugh is an Australian itinerant artist who has travelled to Antarctica nine times, including three times with the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). He is the only AAD arts fellow to have over-wintered.
He created his Outlandish – Aurora Australis series during a winter at Mawson Station in 2009. Each panel in this work has an icy feature in the foreground and a black polar night backdrop, upon which Eastaugh has stitched astonishing green aurorae, streaming and unfurling playfully across the sky.
8. Bill Sutton
The late William Alexander “Bill” Sutton (1917–2000) was one of New Zealand’s most respected 20th-century landscape painters.
His work Aurora at Arrowtown (1949), painted early in his career, contrasts with his later expansive mountain scenes and abstracted landscapes. The greyed Arrowtown buildings are barely visible in the gloomy half-light. Like a portent of doom, a glowing blood-red aurora looms ominously over the town.
Multimodal works
9. David Haines and Joyce Hinterding
David Haines and Joyce Hinterding – two contemporary artists based in Sydney’s Blue Mountains – brought the energy of the solar and electromagnetic realms into the art gallery in their 2008 multi-sensory installation EarthStar.
The artwork combined sight, sound and smell. A video projection of the Sun’s surface, recorded through a hydrogen-alpha telescope lens, showed the detail of the Sun’s corona and the ejections of material that can cause auroral activity. Copper-coiled antennas tuned to detect electromagnetic activity were hooked up to amplifiers that emitted audible pops and sizzles of invisible energy.
To complete the “triptych”, Haines created a synthetic aroma in liquid form that represented the smell of burning ions in an aurora. As Haines explained, “If one could go up into the Earth’s ionosphere when an aurora takes place it would probably smell like this due to burning of oxygen molecules.”
10. Jason O’Hara and Warren Maxwell
Jason O’Hara is a digital storyteller, photographer and experience designer based in Wellington, New Zealand. Along with Auckland-based musician and composer Warren Maxwell, the pair created the immersive 2019 work Where Memories Sleep: The Legend of the Aurora.
O'Hara and Maxwell travelled south with Antarctica New Zealand, the government agency responsible for supporting the country’s Antarctic research program. These journeys inspired their spectacular cine-dance production which combines music, dance and cinematography.
The story follows a young explorer who ventures to the ice, where she meets a powerful kuia (female Māori elder), who gifts her the memories of the world (a metaphor for scientific research into Earth’s geological and climate pasts).
She falls in love with a selkie, a seal-human shapeshifter. In the closing scene, when she has to return home, the selkie’s love song transcends from the ocean to the sky, transforming into the aurora australis – beckoning his love back to Antarctica.
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The aurora was seen across the world last night as the strongest geomagnetic storm for 21 years struck Earth’s atmosphere.
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The aurora was seen across the world last night as the strongest geomagnetic storm for 21 years struck Earth’s atmosphere—just as predicted.
The aurora borealis (northern lights) were visible as far south as Florida and Switzerland in the northern hemisphere while the aurora australis (southern lights) showed up as far north as New Zealand.
The aurora are caused by the solar wind in space—charged particles from the sun—being accelerated down the field lines of the Earth’s magnetic field. They occur in Earth’s ionosphere hundreds of miles up.
Green lights are caused by the charged particles colliding with molecules of oxygen, while the other colors by nitrogen molecules. Much of Europe and North America witnessed red and even exceedingly rare blue aurora.
The aurora generally has a season, with northern lights typically seen from September through March while the southern lights are generally viewed from March through September. However, that’s merely down to darkness levels—they actually occur all year round.
That goes double at the moment as the sun reaches “solar maximum,” its highest level of magnetic activity during its roughly 11 years solar cycle.
However, what happened last night was the result of an unusual scenario where several coronal mass ejections—when magnetic material is hurled into space in the aftermath of solar flares—not only all came in the direction of Earth, but combined as they traveled.
This so-called “halo CME” caused a G4 geomagnetic storm on Friday night, a few hours before being predicted, with Europe experiencing very high activity as soon as it got dark.
In the U.K.the displays were seen across the country as far south as Cornwall, though the best displays appear to have been from the Midlands and North Wales. In the U.S. they were sighted as far south as Florida.
As with all displays of aurora, many of the photos you see here—certainly from cities—are “photographic aurora,” whereby only a camera taking long exposures records distinct shapes and particularly the brilliant colors. Aurora to the naked eye from cities mired in light pollution looked like grey streaks.
Since displays could continue throughout the weekend, the advice is simple: get away from light pollution; use the Dark Sky Place finder or the light pollution map.
The northern lights typically occur as an auroral oval around the North Pole at about 66-69° North latitudes—the Arctic Circle. The best places to see them are Alaska, northern Canada, Iceland, Greenland, Norwegian Lapland, Swedish Lapland, Finnish Lapland and northern Russia.
Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.
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During a brief solar substorm overnight between July 31 and Aug. 1, full-time aurora chaser Justin Anderson proved that "being in the right place at the right time" pays off big time when it comes to hunting the northern lights and STEVE.
"While editing the photos indoors, I noticed our all-sky camera was recording STEVE. I rushed back outside and captured the photo over our shed." Anderson told Space.com in an email.
Anderson's impressive photo shows STEVE arching and twirling against a beautiful backdrop starring the Milky Way in all its glory. Anderson also caught the dynamic northern lights putting on a great show too.
Not everyone is fortunate enough to see STEVE, let alone catch it on camera. In fact, the strange phenomenon was only formally discovered between 2015 and 2016 by citizen scientists according to the first study published on STEVE in Science Advances in 2018.
But this wasn't Anderson's first STEVE encounter. "I have photographed and videoed STEVE many times," Anderson told Space.com. Anderson's work, along with the work of other avid aurora chasers, has been used to study STEVE, their findings have been published in the journal Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society.
Though STEVE often accompanies auroras, the two phenomena are not the same.
Auroras are caused by electrically charged particles entering Earth's atmosphere, exciting gases, and causing them to release light as they return to their original energy (ground state). This light generates the northern lights (also known as the aurora borealis) in the Northern Hemisphere and the southern lights (also known as the aurora australis) in the Southern Hemisphere.
Whereas STEVE, which stands for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, is created when solar emissions, particularly fast-moving streams of plasma heat gas in the upper atmosphere. STEVE is essentially hot, glowing gas.
Though STEVE has to share the sky with bright and colorful dancing auroras, STEVE can hold its own, creating a captivating show for a more exclusive audience as the phenomenon doesn't just show up for anybody.
"Watching it twist and brighten against the Milky Way backdrop was an incredible experience," Anderson continued.
Related: Where and how to photograph the aurora
Before STEVE sparked up, Anderson had been enjoying the fleeting substorm, capturing stunning images and footage of the vivid auroras in great detail. But Anderson had to be quick.
Related stories:
— Where and how to photograph the aurora
— How to photograph the Milky Way: A guide for beginners and enthusiasts
— Best equipment for aurora photography
"The aurora photo was taken during a brief substorm when the aurora intensified dramatically." Anderson continued.
"It was exceptionally bright to the naked eye, even my iPhone camera captured it in real-time video," said Anderson.
To see more of Justin Anderson's work, visit High Hopes Aurora.
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A guide to learn essential camera settings to photograph Northern lights with a DSLR or a phone, best tricks and best photography equipment.
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Last January, I flew to Tromsø in Norway about 350km north of the 66° Arctic circle line. Despite almost no daylight and temperatures as low as minus 20°c, that week was one of the most incredible trips of my life, because I witnessed the most amazing show of Mother Nature: The Northern Lights.
While they are easy to witness in the middle of winter in such latitude, it can be really tricky to capture them with a camera…
I have been taking photos for almost 10 years and the Northern lights are one of the trickiest things to capture if it’s something you have never done before. There are in fact a few parameters that you absolutely need to control to make the best images. Although, the last thing you want is to worry about the camera settings when such a trip may already be a once in a lifetime opportunity.
For this reason, I will explain in this blog post all these parameters and how to control them. I’ll share the keys of a good picture of Auroras and all the steps to photograph Northern lights, worry-free, and without spending all your time changing the settings.
What is a Northern or Southern light?
Called Borealis in the northern hemisphere and Australis in the southern hemisphere, the Aurora occurs on Earth when the solar activity is important and charged particles are ejected after a magnetic storm for example. This high energy spreads into our solar system to finally meet the Earth atmosphere. As they do so, they are attracted by our planet’s magnetic field and are dragged to both poles – this is the reason why the auroras are solely visible under these extreme latitudes.
Upon entering the atmosphere, the particles mingle and react with the Earth’s atoms – ie. oxygen, nitrogen, etc. – creating a vivid show of nature: a display of multi-colour floating lines in the sky!
Note | I will mostly use the term of “Northern Lights” and “Aurora Borealis” as they are most common, however, all the below applies to the Southern lights/ Aurora Australis.
Where and when can you see best the Auroras?
Since the solar particles are attracted by the magnetic poles, it is necessary to travel to extreme latitudes to see best the Auroras. While it is almost certain to witness Northern lights from the north of Canada, Russia, Iceland and the Nordic countries, it is sometimes possible to see them near the horizon from Ireland, the Baltic countries and even Poland or Germany. These are rare occurrences but if the solar activity is really high (about 7-8 KP – see below) and that you are far from any light pollution (cities, full moon, etc.) you may spot them. Although, northern countries are still the best places to see the Northern Lights.
It is also easier to see Northern lights than Southern lights as the northern latitudes are a lot more populated and much easier to travel to. The southern lights would require a trip to Antarctica in the middle of winter or a lot of luck while travelling in the southern part of New Zealand, Tasmania, Chile or the Subantarctic islands (south Georgia, Kerguelen…).
In terms of the best season to see the Northern lights, winter is always a good choice. In fact, even if this phenomenon happens pretty much all year long, the activity tends to be stronger during the coldest months. It is best to travel to these northern destinations from the end of November to mid-January, as the sun is also at its lowest and rarely passes the horizon, giving you almost 18 hours of nighttime every day!
Mi-December until mid-January, the days in the North of Norway and Sweden, are quasi-inexistent. You would need to wait until the end of January to have a bit of daylight from 11 am to 3 pm – and yet it’s more a sort of 2 hours of dawn, 2 hours of dusk and 20 hours of night! In my opinion, this is just the best season to travel because the light over the cities and surrounding snowy landscapes are incredible and the rest of the time, you can spend it watching and photographing Northern lights!
To check the daylight hours, you can use this website or this one and choose the destination. I also use the Photographer’s Ephemeris website to check where to expect the sun to set or rise. It is an excellent tool for photographers.
As an example, here is a Sun graph monthly view for Tromso in Norway – You can see that the best month to see the northern lights are those with longer nights and twilights such as December and January. Although, as you can see February, March, October and November are good candidates as the daylight remain low. Now, if you plan a trip in the middle of summer, during June or July, don’t expect to see any Norther lights since the sun never sets!! Expect to watch the midnight sun instead 🙂
Checking the aurora activity and forecast
The Aurora activity will define if you can see the Northern Lights with the naked eye and where from. To find the best spots and check how strong the aurora should be, I use the website Aurora Service – it gives real-time information on the level of activity as well as a 3-day forecast. The data is based on solar wind activity and geomagnetism provided by Nasa and a network of magnetometers.
Also, make sure to also check the weather forecast. Obviously, if the sky is overcast, you might not see the Auroras which will be hidden behind the clouds. Finally, as well as finding a clear sky, it is important to remain away from light pollution (from cities) and travel outside the week preceding or following the full moon. I find that website quite fun to look for “dark sky” and this one can be useful to calculate the moon phase from anywhere in the world!
If you are in Iceland, you can also check out the Icelandic Met Office website.
In terms of Smartphone Apps, there are a few you can download for free. Aurora, Aurora Alerts or Aurora Forecast allow you to check the activity where you are but also choose a destination – so you can check the forecast from home or before your plane takes off! It provides weather forecast, cloud coverage as well as current KP-index and a 3-day forecast. You can purchase an extension to get a long-term forecast, but I am not sure that is very necessary. Note: These apps seem to pull the data from the Aurora Service website.
Equipment to photograph Northern Lights
Minimum Requirements
| A Camera with Manual Mode
You will need a camera with a manual mode functionality; It doesn’t have to be expensive but obviously the higher range it is, the best it will handle night photography. Ideally, a full-frame DSLR with high ISO capability will get you the best conditions for high-quality photographs, but as long as your camera let you choose the aperture and time of exposition, you are good to go! It doesn’t have to be expensive and in fairness, the brand doesn’t really matter.
So you have a large choice from Full-frame to APC-C to Mirrorless cameras. Technology evolves on a daily basis and new cameras tend to handle high ISO a lot more (check this section to understand why ISO capability is important).
All my photos were taken with a Canon 6D and a 24-105 mm 1:4 USM Serie L lens – You can also rent a camera or a lens from your local camera shop if you don’t want to invest in brand-new equipment but make sure to have an insurance covering gadgets.
| A Sturdy Tripod
You will also need a sturdy tripod such as this one – The tripod keeps your camera steady during long exposures. Hand holding a camera even for a 1/100-second opening is really hard! The camera will sense the smallest movement and just the fact of breathing will get your hands and body to move, creating unwanted blur on your photos. Invest or rent a good Tripod. The bigger and heavy your camera is, the stronger your tripod must be. You really don’t want it to fall in the snow…
Complementary gears recommended
A few spare batteries, fully charged;
A lens with a large opening – f2.8 being best quality-price;
A lens as wide as possible. You can have a fish-eye for fun but 14 to 28 mm is perfectly fine;
A couple of “empty” Memory cards or one with high capacity
A remote controller or a shutter release cable – make sure the release is adapted to your camera
A phone that can be linked with an app to the camera – if your camera has a Wifi or Bluetooth connection.
Good warm clothes (see this section)
Keys for a good picture of Auroras
How to photograph Northern lights | Camera settings
| Shutter speed
This corresponds to the time the shutter opens to let the light enter the lens. With a DSRL camera, it can be set manually between 1/4000 s and 30 s. You will need to adjust the shutter speed depending on the type of aurora and the result you want. If the aurora is strong and moving fast, you will choose a fast opening to capture the movement (1-6 s) and catch what your eyes see.
If you let it open longer, you will let a lot more light in and might either get a photo overexposed (white) if the aurora is very bright or you will miss its swirls.
Long exposure is however recommended if the aurora moves slowly or isn’t bright enough. In this instance, it will be more about capturing the colours in the sky (15-30 s) than the movement.
To change the shutter speed, choose the mode manual “M” or the “TV” function. For the first one, you will be in charge of also choosing your aperture, while with the TV, you are only responsible for the shutter speed – the camera will calculate and change the aperture on its own. The Manual Mode remains the best to use, as you are in total control of all the settings and the results you will get.
Most cameras allow an automatic shutter speed up to 30 seconds. If you need to go beyond that, you have to choose the “B” bulb function and press the button without releasing it for the desired period. This technique is not ideal at night, as the slightest movements of your finger or breath can make your photography blurry. I would recommend getting a remote control or managing your device from your smartphone if your camera has the Wifi or Bluetooth integrated.
| Aperture / “f”
The aperture is the size of the lens opening. It is symbolised by the letter “f” and a number that usually ranges from 1 to 5. The lower the number is, the wider the shutter opens, letting more light come into the lens and allowing you to decrease the shutter speed and get sharper shots. Although, lenses with a large aperture such as f.1 are quite expensive and don’t focus well at night.
Basic lenses sold as bundled with the camera body usually have a minimum aperture of f4/4.5 which is unfortunately too small to capture a really good photo of Northern Lights. Ideally, I would recommend a lens that opens to f2.8. They have a good focus at night, they perform well for northern lights, and more generally are good for landscape and travel photography.
If your lens has a high aperture and you can’t invest in a new lens, you will need to work around the limitation by compensating with a higher ISO or a slower shutter speed.
| Sensor sensitivity / “ISO”
Those who have used film cameras prior to the digital era will know that sensor sensitivity is important depending on the brightness (cloudy, sunny, etc.). The higher the ISO, the more sensitive to the light the captor is. With a high ISO, you do not need to open too wide or keep the shutter open too long. However, by setting a high ISO you will lose in sharpness and details. In fact, high ISO creates “grain” in the picture and mostly in the “black”, compromising the quality of your image.
Nowadays, the ISO can be chosen without having to change the film and can even reach up numbers such as 12000… but that would not be recommended for night photography! Even if a camera lets you choose really high ISO, it is essential to identify the “limit” of the equipment, ie. at which level the grain starts to appear. Do not hesitate to test the settings at home before going on an Aurora Borealis photo trip.
To find the ISO limit for your device, take the time to take photos in pitch black and analyze the “grain” or pixelisation of your image when you get higher in ISO. Personally, I try to not get higher than 1600 with my full-frame camera (Canon 6D).
Start shooting at 800-1000 ISO and move up from here. If you don’t get enough light, you can adapt the shutter speed and aperture.
| Camera focus
It is necessary to set your lens in manual mode because at night lenses have difficulties finding a focus point automatically. To do so, slice the button on the side of your lens from “AF” (automatic) to “M” (manual), then rotate your lens to focus on “Infinity” – ∞ symbol. You may still need to adjust slightly your lens focus to the left or right from the ∞ symbol in order to get a sharper image.
I would recommend doing some tests in bright light and marking the sharpest focus point with a pencil or white tape. Make sure to wear your glasses if you are shortsighted… or what you think is sharp might not be in reality!! There is often a small scroll wheel near the viewfinder to change adapt it to your sight. Make sure to check your photo afterwards to be sure, the photos are sharp.
| Image format
Most cameras nowadays will let you take photos in Raw and Jpeg. If you want to edit your photos with Lightroom or Photoshop, I would recommend shooting in Raw which will allow you to control a lot of parameters in the post-editing and get the best out of your images. However, if you are a beginner, not into post-editing, don’t know how to or quickly want to share your images on social media, then, shooting in Jpeg should be enough.
Raw images take a lot of space on your memory card – about 20 Mb per image – while Jpeg images range from 500 Kb to 2 Md depending on the size chosen: S (Small), M (medium), L (Large)… The larger the size, the better the quality is. Keep this in mind and bring a few Memory cards with you.
| White balance
If you don’t shoot in Raw, you will need to choose the correct Kelvin value to capture the most accurate colours possible. I would recommend choosing the custom mode and a Kelvin value between 2400 and 4000 for night photography and Aurora Borealis.
For those shooting in Raw, the white balance can easily be corrected in post-production, however, it is always best to get it right from the first shooting!
Tips to photograph the Northern Lights
Clean your lens | and your captor to avoid dust that may alter your final image
Zoom out | Do not zoom in to use the lowest aperture as possible and take a wide photo of the Aurora and the landscape.
Focus to Infinity | Identify the best place to focus to the infinity during the day. Mark the best setting on your lens to find it easily.
Use a sturdy tripod | It is very important that your camera does not move at all during the shooting. With a necessarily long exposure, the slightest movement would disturb the smooth running of the shooting and make your photographs blurry.
Do not use a flash | If you want to highlight an object or a person in the foreground of your image, use a headlamp and illuminate your subject very quickly at the beginning of the shooting (then keep the light away from the landscape while your camera continues on with the long exposure).
Have your camera ready to shoot | prepare some settings ahead and learn/practice prior your trip to understand how your camera handles photography at low light or at night
Shoot in manual mode | to control the aperture, ISO and shutter speed and avoid automatic focus (that wouldn’t work at night).
Choose a low aperture and change the shutter speed | according to the Aurora intensity (1-6 s for strong aurora, 15 to 30 s for low activity)
Do not use the Image Stabilizer of your lens | It’s not necessary since you are using a tripod. It will save some of your batteries already weakened by the cold weather.
Know the limit of your ISO capability | The sensitivity of the sensor must be consistent with the capacity of the camera and lens. For an entry-level device, do not go higher than an ISO 1000. For a mid-range, you can probably push up to 2000. Finally, for a full-frame, you can go up to an ISO 3200 but you shouldn’t need to get higher. Ideally, choose an ISO as low as possible such as 800 -1000.
Keep the aperture as wide as possible | Set your aperture to the smallest possible to open the shutter a maximum (f2.8 or lower being the best)
Balance the 3 parameters | keep in mind the relationship between ISO, aperture and Shutter speed
Shoot in RAW | for a fun and creative post-production photo editing!
Control the white balance | between 2400 and 4000 Kelvin
Use a remote release | to avoid blurry images
or Download a Camera control App | if you have Wifi or Bluetooth connectivity – it is useful if you get too cold as you can control your camera from the car/van!!
Keep the spare battery close to your body heat | to keep them warm. Batteries lose power with cold weather
Stay away from light pollution | A dark sky (with no moon) and away from city lights will give you a better chance to see and photograph the Northern lights
Stay warm and dry | by wearing high-quality clothes made for snow and below zero/extreme temperatures.
Don’t build up expectation, but keep a positive attitude | Nature is unpredictable and Northern Lights don’t always show up.
Don’t forget to watch the Northern Light with your eyes and enjoy the show!
After shoot | Prevent condensation
Condensation forms on the glass when there is a drastic change in temperature. For example, getting back to your warm hotel after shooting Northern lights by -10 degrees… This condensation can form on your camera and inside your lens causing in the long term moisture and altering the internal mechanism.
To prevent this fog to appear within your gear, keep your camera inside a bag correctly closed and do not open it inside until fully acclimatised. If you don’t have a camera bag, cover your camera with one of your clothes (not something humid) when you are about to enter the warm room from outside and let it settle until it warms up to the ambient temperature. Depending on the temperature differences, you may have to keep it acclimatising for up to a few hours.
If it is too late, wipe the lens, don’t detach the lens from the camera body and place it in an airtight bag until the condensation has fully disappeared.
Photographing Northern Lights with a phone
If you don’t have a DSLR and don’t want to invest in one to photograph Northern Lights, you can still try to use your phone! The more recent smartphones handle pretty well night photography and also offer a manual functionality that allows you to control the shutter speed (sometimes aperture) and ISO. Even if it will never give the same results as a DSLR, for most travellers it will be enough to capture a memory of the lights and share it with friends and family on social media.
Just like with any DSLR, you will need to find a dark but clear sky and travel to latitudes where you can see northern lights. You will also need a tripod to avoid unwanted movements. Most smartphones will have a Manual mode (or “pro”) integrated into the camera apps or a predefined mode such as “light painting” or “night photo”. If your device doesn’t have one, you can download an app such as ProCam or Camera FV-5 Lite.
With a phone, for a good start, choose an ISO 800 and a shutter speed of 10-20 s. Don’t be scared to then edit your images with Snapseed or Lightroom Mobile.
NOTE | if you decide to join a tour, guides often share their photos with the group. You can check ahead if they are included or sold separately.
Edit your Northern light pictures with Lightroom
Editing an image doesn’t have to be too complicated. Adjusting some settings such as the brightness, contrast, white balance or vibrance can already make a huge difference. Although, one of the major differences between a good photo and a random Northern lights image is often down to the composition. Editing won’t make miracles! Shooting the landscape as well as the sky is important to get a sense of the scale of the Northern light environment.
When you edit your images, try to open the blacks (shadow) and create details in the foreground with gradual filters. I also like to brighten the stars in the sky (brightness) and play a little bit with the individual colours… Even if Northern Lights are mostly green, they sometimes display some red and purple on the outskirt – With Lightroom you can enhance these colours that are slightly less intense!
Best tours to see the Northern Lights in Europe
There are a few places in Europe that are easy to reach for a quick trip from any large city. Count 4 to 5 days to really make it worth and do not hesitate to join tours to get out of the towns and find the best spots to see the Northern Lights. Ideally, you can head to Tromso in the far north of Norway as I did, or to Rovaniemi in Sweden or even Iceland. I gathered a few tours in each place to give you an idea of the cost and what’s included.
What to pack to not freeze during the shooting
Warm clothes | such as skying gear, merino undergarments, warm hat and balaclava! It will be necessary as you will mostly spend time standing still to watch the northern lights, likely by minus 10 or 20 Celsius degrees,
Footwear | After ski boots are best as they will keep your feet warm and dry.
Hot drink and snack | Your body will work hard to remain warm so give it some extra boost with snacks and hot drinks
Thick Gloves and inner gloves | Inner gloves are important to have for better manipulation of the camera settings which is quite impossible with thick gloves. Have an extra warm pair though, to keep warm when you don’t touch the camera.
Headlamp | Useful to change the settings if your camera doesn’t have a built-in light but also to take pictures of yourself and the landscape in the foreground
If you can, bring a chair, blanket, hot water bottle, etc.
Lip balm, hand and face moisturisers | to protect your body from the extreme cold and dryness.
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Smartphone cameras have significantly improved in recent years. Computational photography and AI allow these devices to capture stunning images that can surpass what we see with the naked eye. Photos of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, provide one particularly striking example.
If you saw the northern lights during the geomagnetic storms in May 2024, you might have noticed that your smartphone made the photos look even more vivid than reality.
Auroras, known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis) occur when the solar wind disturbs Earth’s magnetic field. They appear as streaks of color across the sky.
What makes photos of these events even more striking than they appear to the eye? As a professor of computational photography, I’ve seen how the latest smartphone features overcome the limitations of human vision.
Your eyes in the dark
Human eyes are remarkable. They allow you to see footprints in a sun-soaked desert and pilot vehicles at high speeds. However, your eyes perform less impressively in low light.
Human eyes contain two types of cells that respond to light – rods and cones. Rods are numerous and much more sensitive to light. Cones handle color but need more light to function. As a result, at night our vision relies heavily on rods and misses color.
The result is like wearing dark sunglasses to watch a movie. At night, colors appear washed out and muted. Similarly, under a starry sky, the vibrant hues of the aurora are present but often too dim for your eyes to see clearly.
In low light, your brain prioritizes motion detection and shape recognition to help you navigate. This trade-off means the ethereal colors of the aurora are often invisible to the naked eye. Technology is the only way to increase their brightness.
Taking the perfect picture
Smartphones have revolutionized how people capture the world. These compact devices use multiple cameras and advanced sensors to gather more light than the human eye can, even in low-light conditions. They achieve this through longer exposure times – how long the camera takes in light – larger apertures and increasing the ISO, the amount of light your camera lets in.
But smartphones do more than adjust these settings. They also leverage computational photography to enhance your images using digital techniques and algorithms. Image stabilization reduces the camera’s shakiness, and exposure settings optimize the amount of light the camera captures.
Multi-image processing creates the perfect photo by stacking multiple images together. A setting called night mode can balance colors in low light, while LiDAR capabilities in some phones keep your images in precise focus.
LiDAR stands for light detection and ranging, and phones with this setting emit laser pulses to calculate the distances to objects in the scene quickly in any kind of light. LiDAR generates a depth map of the environment to improve focus and make objects in your photos stand out.
Artificial intelligence tools in your smartphone camera can further enhance your photos by optimizing the settings, applying bursts of light and using super-resolution techniques to get really fine detail. They can even identify faces in your photos.
AI processing in your smartphone’s camera
While there’s plenty you can do with a smartphone camera, regular cameras do have larger sensors and superior optics, providing more control over the images you take. Camera manufacturers like Nikon, Sony and Canon typically avoid tampering with the image, instead letting the photographer take creative control.
These cameras offer photographers the flexibility of shooting in raw format, which allows you to keep more of each image’s data for editing and often produces higher-quality results.
Unlike dedicated cameras, modern smartphone cameras use AI while and after you snap a picture to enhance your photos’ quality. While you’re taking a photo, AI tools will analyze the scene you’re pointing the camera at and adjust settings such as exposure, white balance and ISO, while recognizing the subject you’re shooting and stabilizing the image. These make sure you get a great photo when you hit the button.
You can often find features that use AI such as high dynamic range, night mode and portrait mode, enabled by default or accessible within your camera settings.
AI algorithms further enhance your photos by refining details, reducing blur and applying effects such as color correction after you take the photo.
All these features help your camera take photos in low-light conditions and contributed to the stunning aurora photos you may have captured with your phone camera.
While the human eye struggles to fully appreciate the northern lights’ otherworldly hues at night, modern smartphone cameras overcome this limitation. By leveraging AI and computational photography techniques, your devices allow you to see the bold colors of solar storms in the atmosphere, boosting color and capturing otherwise invisible details that even the keenest eye will miss.
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Seeing the northern lights (aurora borealis) in the sky above us is becoming an increasingly popular to-do list item, but despite being fortunate enough to have seen them a few times now, the lure of seeing the southern lights (aurora australis) during our time in New Zealand was just too tempting to ignore.
We’d been lucky so far, really, when it came to night sky photographs. While not my favourite subject, hunting for the right location, angle, time of year, can all add to the challenge of getting the right shot. While the settings are broadly very simple as I mentioned in my night sky guide (ISO1600-2500, f/2.8 or wider, 20-30 seconds, focused to infinity), the world looks very different when contrasted with our galaxy all around us up there.
On the one hand, Milford Sound had been a cruel location – clear skies are not what I needed in the day – on the other, during the night that clear sky turns into a massive positive. Although I would have preferred a tiny bit more moonlight to hit the mountain tops, the light-painting we did across the water in the shot below really helped boost the shapes from the foreground while allowing me to capture the long tail of the Milky Way’s galactic core.
Now, while not quite 5-star luxury, there is one huge benefit to a campervan that no hotel in the world can compete with : it can move.
Sitting in the tranquility of Milford Sound the morning after this shot, word came in that the Southern lights might just be putting on a show that could be seen from New Zealand over the next couple of days. That was a quick decision – the mobile Jucy studio got packed up and off we headed, to the bottom of the South Island and The Catlins.
Arriving in time for sunset, the opportunity to shoot this old wooden lighthouse wasn’t missed, and neither was the sound of impending doom from a colony of giant sea lions just around the corner. Advice from a local couple told us that they tended to migrate up the hill towards where we wanted to shoot at night, so we needed to beware of any “rustling” in the bushes and grass if we were coming back later..!
After a brief spell back at a local campsite, it was time to head back out to the cold night air once more. On arrival, we weren’t alone – 3 or 4 others were at the same spot looking for the same scene, but everything indicated that we’d missed the show. 10 minutes later, however, was a different story – another storm had started up, raining new strands of light over the horizon to the south.
While it’s important to keep light levels as low as possible so as to not impair your vision at night, the lighthouse itself needed something to lift it from the background – a little light painting. That, and a slightly different position gave us a corner of the galaxy along with the aurora australis in the distance, providing the unique angle I wanted.
Sadly, while the lighthouse itself is old, the technology inside has been rapidly updated.
Gone are the long, sweeping, beams of light illuminating the sky in all directions – instead, a set of high powered LEDs that blink on and off in the prescribed pattern. They say this allows the lighthouse to run on AA batteries, rather than megawatts of power – saving money, maintenance, and ultimately the environment. Still, I can’t help but wish they’d kept the original rotating beacon (OK, even with an LED and mirrors inside) as it was.
Call me “old fashioned”, but a lighthouse without a long beam of light is just a hut with a torch in my view!
Still, this was more than an added bonus – seeing both the northern lights and southern lights in only a couple of months is quite some going.
And what of the other locations at night?
No visit to the south island is complete without a star shot over Lake Tekapo, and while I already have images I’m happy with, it was time for a revisit – this time for a wider angle over the lake and Church of the Good Shepherd.
One of our nights in Lake Wanaka had also yielded some interesting star formations overhead, but with so much light pollution at ground level, it’s not quite the tranquil shot I would have hoped for.
Admittedly, the layers of low-level cloud on the horizon didn’t help matters, but regardless of which way you’re facing, due to Wanaka’s recent popularity more and more lights are hitting the town in every direction as you look across the lake.
I’ve seen several “stitched panoramics” of the night sky over that tree, with extra (let’s call them) “artistic enhancements” to make the lake scene appear more stunning while looking west, but I have to say I’m not convinced by this location at night. New Zealand has some amazing scenery, and I feel privileged to have seen as much of it as I have to date – but for star shots and the night sky, it really now is a case of getting off the beaten track and exploring the dark areas on our maps.
While not perfect conditions, I did enjoy watching this time lapse back from my attempt to shoot the milky way moving across the sky over Mount Cook. Sadly, with the moon rising so rapidly and popping into the frame, we lost the definition in the sky after only 90 minutes – but still, there are worse bits of scenery to enjoy…!
With that in the bag, I guess there were only two other things to enjoy and capture.
First, paying homage to the millions of instagram “travellers” who are “having an experience, maaaan” with their head-torches shining brightly up into the night sky. An easy shot, yes – and only for a joke. But no – I’m not “painting the stars”…!
And second, but more importantly – a combination of light painting practice and a reminder of one of New Zealand’s most famous food options. Welcome to the land of pies. 🙂
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For many, glimpsing the Northern—or Southern—Lights is an awe-inspiring experience they have waited years to see. Rightly so. Witnessing colorful lights dance across the sky is mesmerizing and slightly eerie. From late August to early April, the skies over Iceland are dark enough to see the lights. Although the lights are always active (no, it has nothing to do with the cold weather), between late August and early April, the Icelandic skies become sufficiently dark to reveal their full splendor.
Are you keen to capture Mother Nature's elusive show? You're certainly not alone in wanting to share this magic with friends and family—and show them what they are missing. Thankfully, you don't need a high-end full-frame camera and expensive wide-angled lenses with 1.2 aperture—although those are excellent choices. Advancements in smartphone technology now allow us to capture the Northern Lights and other low-light scenes effectively. The settings are relatively easy, and the results can be stunning. Experiment and practice your setup before you get out in the field! The more you practice, the better (and faster) you'll get. Before heading out, familiarize yourself with your device's settings and practice; tweaking settings with cold fingers is less fun. Trust me on that!
You need dark, clear skies and sightings are greatly improved outside populated areas
Smartphone Photography Tips for the Northern Lights:
Guided Tours: Consider joining one. Experienced guides know the best spots, understand the terrain and can predict weather conditions. Relax and await the luminous show. Find a Northern lights tour
Steady Tripod: Essential for long exposures in low light. Some tripods have hooks to add weight, ensuring they remain grounded in Iceland's sometimes fierce winds.
Manual Focus: Lock your focus to infinity. In low light, cameras might have difficulty focusing. Adjust manually until the aurora appears sharp.
No Flash: Models like the iPhone 11 Pro and newer have Night mode. Use it to adjust your exposure time (around 10-15 seconds) to capture the aurora's dance.
Apps: If your default camera lacks manual controls, consider apps like Northern Lights Photo Taker, NightCap Camera, ProCamera, and Slow Shutter for iOS. For Android, ProCam X Lite is a good choice.
Screen Brightness: Dim your screen. A bright screen can hinder your night vision and may disturb others who are not so enthusiastic about your bright screen.
Shoot in RAW: This format captures more details, offering better post-processing opportunities to bring out the details in your pictures.
Battery Backup: Cold can deplete your battery faster. Bring a power bank if you plan to stay out for extended periods.
Experiment: Play with exposure times, lenses, and framing. Including some of the landscape can give a sense of scale to the aurora.
Dress Warmly: We cannot emphasize this enough. Icelandic weather can be harsh. Dress appropriately to stay cozy.
Savor the Moment: While photographing the Northern Lights is rewarding, take time to immerse yourself in the experience without any gadgets. Sometimes, fond memories are the best capture.
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What causes an aurora?
Auroras appear near both the north and south poles as the aurora borealis and the aurora australis. You may have noticed more aurora alerts lately as the sun has become more active. In fact, the bright blasts of activity on the sun are directly linked to these wispy, elusive lights we see in the night sky.
Storms on the sun that cause events such as coronal mass ejections and solar wind from coronal holes send charged particles hurtling across space. Because our sun is 93 million miles away (150 million km), the eruption we witness on the sun can take several days to reach our atmosphere. But if Earth is in the path of the particle stream, our planet’s magnetic field and atmosphere react from the impact.
When the charged particles from the sun strike atoms and molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, they excite those atoms, causing them to light up.
When charged particles interact with Earth’s atmosphere
What does it mean for an atom to be excited? Atoms consist of a central nucleus and a surrounding cloud of electrons encircling the nucleus in an orbit. When charged particles from the sun strike atoms in Earth’s atmosphere, electrons move to higher-energy orbits, further away from the nucleus. Then when an electron moves back to a lower-energy orbit, it releases a particle of light or photon.
What happens in an aurora is similar to what happens in the neon lights we see on many business signs. Electricity excites the atoms in the neon gas within the glass tubes of a neon sign. That’s why these signs give off their brilliant colors. The aurora works on the same principle, but at a far vaster scale.
The shapes of the northern and southern lights
The aurora often appears as curtains of lights, but they can also be arcs or spirals, following lines of force in Earth’s magnetic field. Most are green in color, but sometimes you’ll see a hint of pink. Strong displays might also have red, violet and white colors. The lights typically appear in the far north – the nations bordering the Arctic Ocean – Canada, Scandinavian countries, Iceland, Russia and the state of Alaska. But strong displays can extend down into more southerly latitudes. And of course, the lights have a counterpart at Earth’s south polar regions, though there is less land at high southerly latitudes for people to witness the displays.
The colors in the aurora were once a source of mystery throughout human history. But science says that different gases in Earth’s atmosphere give off different colors when they are excited. Oxygen gives off the green color of the aurora, for example. Nitrogen causes blue or red colors.
So today the mystery of the aurora is not so mysterious as it used to be. Yet people still travel thousands of miles to see the brilliant natural light shows in Earth’s atmosphere. And even though we know the scientific reason for the aurora, the dazzling natural light show can still fire our imaginations to visualize fire bridges, gods or dancing ghosts.
Ancient explanations and mythology behind the aurora
People have seen these dancing lights for millennia and have had their own explanations for them. Those who live at or visit high latitudes are sometimes lucky enough to experience these colored lights shimmering across the night sky. Some Inuit believed that they were seeing the spirits of their ancestors dancing in the flickering aurora. In Norse mythology, the aurora was a fire bridge to the sky that the gods built. You can read more about the mythology of the aurora here.
Mike Taylor’s photos of the aurora
EarthSky friend Mike Taylor shared these incredible aurora images with us.
Bottom line: When charged particles from the sun strike atoms in Earth’s atmosphere, they cause electrons in the atoms to move to a higher-energy state. When the electrons drop back to a lower energy state, they release a photon: light. This process creates the beautiful aurora, or northern and southern lights.
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The aurora can be seen near the poles of both the northern and southern hemisphere. In the north the display is known as the aurora borealis; in the south it is called the aurora australis.
These 'northern' and 'southern lights' have fascinated, frightened and inspired humans for centuries. More recently, photographers have gone to remarkable lengths to try and capture the beauty of these atmospheric events.
See spectacular aurora photography at the Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition
What causes the aurora borealis or 'northern lights'?
The lights we see in the night sky are in actual fact caused by activity on the surface of the Sun.
Solar storms on our star's surface give out huge clouds of electrically charged particles. These particles can travel millions of miles, and some may eventually collide with the Earth.
Most of these particles are deflected away, but some become captured in the Earth’s magnetic field, accelerating down towards the north and south poles into the atmosphere. This is why aurora activity is concentrated at the magnetic poles.
“These particles then slam into atoms and molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere and essentially heat them up,” explains Royal Observatory astronomer Tom Kerss. “We call this physical process ‘excitation’, but it’s very much like heating a gas and making it glow.”
What we are seeing therefore are atoms and molecules in our atmosphere colliding with particles from the Sun. The aurora's characteristic wavy patterns and 'curtains' of light are caused by the lines of force in the Earth’s magnetic field.
The lowest part of an aurora is typically around 80 miles above the Earth's surface. However, the top of a display may extend several thousand miles above the Earth.
What causes the different colours in the aurora?
Different gases give off different colours when they are heated. The same process is also taking place in the aurora.
The two primary gases in the Earth’s atmosphere are nitrogen and oxygen, and these elements give off different colours during an aurora display.
The green we see in the aurora is characteristic of oxygen, while hints of purple, blue or pink are caused by nitrogen.
“We sometimes see a wonderful scarlet red colour, and this is caused by very high altitude oxygen interacting with solar particles,” adds astronomer Tom. “This only occurs when the aurora is particularly energetic.”
How to photograph the aurora
Is the aurora borealis visible in the UK?
The aurora borealis can be seen in the northern hemisphere, while the aurora australis is found in the southern hemisphere.
While the best places to see the aurora are concentrated around the polar regions, the aurora borealis can sometimes be seen in the UK. The further north you are the more likely you are to see the display, but in the past the northern lights have been seen as far south as Cornwall and Kent.
Lancaster University's Department of Physics runs a website called AuroraWatch UK, which estimates the likelihood of an aurora being visible based on geomagnetic activity. Follow the team's Twitter account to see the latest UK alerts.
The conditions do still need to be right however. Dark and clear nights, preferably with little light pollution, offer the best chance of seeing the aurora.
Do other planets have aurorae?
Any planet with an atmosphere and magnetic field is likely to have aurorae. Scientists have captured incredible images of aurorae on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Aurorae on Mars have also been seen, but as the 'red planet' does not have a global magnetic field, aurorae behave differently and appear to be far more widespread.
What are solar flares and how do they affect the aurora?
The aurora is a very dramatic example of the ways in which solar activity affects the Earth.
Solar flares are like enormous explosions on the surface of the Sun in which streams of charged particles are emitted into space. It typically takes two days after the flare is seen on the Sun for the particles to reach Earth. Upon their arrival, these particles can result in aurora activity.
What are geomagnetic storms?
Intense aurora displays are generated following massive explosions on the Sun known as 'coronal mass ejections'. These explosions release clouds of hot plasma containing billions of tons of material travelling at around two million miles per hour. When the clouds reach the Earth, they interact with the Earth's magnetic field to cause events called geomagnetic storms.
The Sun's activity fluctuates, with activity reaching a peak every 11 years. The last time solar activity peaked was in 2014, and the cycle is now reaching its minimum. However, solar activity is predicted to rise again through to the mid-2020s.
Regardless of the Sun's activity, aurorae can still occur at any time and observers in high latitudes should always look out for them.
Main image: Goðafoss Flow by Larryn Rae, Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021
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Acts range from family-friendly slapstick to edgy standup at the four-day comedy event held in Jamestown, N.Y., home of the I Love Lucy star.
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Before she died in 1989, Jamestown, N.Y., officials approached Lucille Ball with the idea for a museum. But she told them: “Don’t just celebrate me — don't just put my stuff in glass cases,” said Journey Gunderson, executive director of The National Comedy Center, “make my hometown a destination for the celebration of all comedy and its artists.”
So that's what they did.
There’s certainly a lot that celebrates Lucy in Jamestown: In addition to the National Comedy Center,there’s the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum that displays costumes, memorabilia and replicas of the original I Love Lucy set and Ricky Ricardo’s Tropicana club.
Visitors can take a "Lucytown" bus tour to see the homes where she was born and raised, her gravesite, and one of the buildings where she performed as a teen.
But Jamestown does far more than celebrate just Lucy. The National Comedy Center, a few blocks away from the Lucy and Desi museum, showcases everything from black-and-white cinema slapstick to the bluest standup comedy. There are dozens of interactive exhibits, like a stand-up lounge where visitors can get on stage, take the mic and see what it’s like to try to make an audience laugh.
During the annual festival, which takes place around Ball’s August birthday, you can see a number of attendees dressed in her trademark polka dot dress.
This year’s headliners were Nate Bargatze, who’s been called “The nicest guy in stand-up” and Nicole Byer, the comedian/actor who’s currently hosting Netflix’s reality baking show Nailed It! The festival also brought in a number of rising stars who performed standup at the Tropicana.
Jamie Bogert came to the festival from Philadelphia with her mother. She said all of the different activities showed them how Ball helped “pave the way in so many ways for comedy.”
“I think having the Lucy museum part of Jamestown and then having this new comedy center is just such a perfect combination,” said Bogert. “We were saying, it was so great to see comedians last night and like, maybe it's their start and they're trying to get their name out or whatever else.”
Respect for comedy
Even when the festival is not in town, the center is more than a collection of artifacts. The tour begins with visitors creating their personal comedy profiles by selecting their favorite comedians, TV shows and movies. Once created, your wristband allows you to tailor some of the exhibits to your personal preferences.
There are interactive exhibits, like comedy karaoke, and a green screen where you can try to perform the iconic chocolate candy conveyor belt scene from I Love Lucy or Abbott and Costello’s famous "Who’s on First" bit.
Extensive exhibits are dedicated to comedy idols like Johnny Carson, Carl Reiner and George Carlin.
Byer said she’d heard about the museum, but “didn’t realize the depth of it.”
One of her favorite comedians is Rodney Dangerfield, known for starring in Back to School and Caddyshack and for his “I don’t get no respect” standup routine.
Byer loved seeing the duffle bag that he took from gig to gig, his handwritten jokes and his trademark suit and red tie.
“I didn't know he was so trim,” she laughed.
It’s fitting that Dangerfield joked about getting no respect, because comedians often don’t, said the National Comedy Center’s Gunderson. Too many people don’t understand that comedy is its own art form.
That’s why one of the goals of the museum is to show visitors “the intensity and the rigor of the process,” Gunderson said. Something Lucille Ball knew well.
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What is UV Light? Ultraviolet (UV) light has shorter wavelengths than visible light. Although UV waves are invisible to the human eye, some insects, such as bumblebees, can see them. This is similar to how a dog can hear the sound of a whistle just outside the hearing range of humans. ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT FROM OUR […]
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Ultraviolet (UV) light has shorter wavelengths than visible light. Although UV waves are invisible to the human eye, some insects, such as bumblebees, can see them. This is similar to how a dog can hear the sound of a whistle just outside the hearing range of humans.
The Sun is a source of the full spectrum of ultraviolet radiation, which is commonly subdivided into UV-A, UV-B, and UV-C. These are the classifications most often used in Earth sciences. UV-C rays are the most harmful and are almost completely absorbed by our atmosphere. UV-B rays are the harmful rays that cause sunburn. Exposure to UV-B rays increases the risk of DNA and other cellular damage in living organisms. Fortunately, about 95 percent UV-B rays are absorbed by ozone in the Earth's atmosphere.
Scientists studying astronomical objects commonly refer to different subdivisions of ultraviolet radiation: near ultraviolet (NUV), middle ultraviolet (MUV), far ultraviolet (FUV), and extreme ultraviolet (EUV). NASA's SDO spacecraft captured the image below in multiple wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation. The false-color composite reveals different gas temperatures. Reds are relatively cool (about 60,000 Celsius) while blues and greens are hotter (greater than one million Celsius).
In 1801, Johann Ritter conducted an experiment to investigate the existence of energy beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum. Knowing that photographic paper would turn black more rapidly in blue light than in red light, he exposed the paper to light beyond violet. Sure enough, the paper turned black, proving the existence of ultraviolet light.
Since the Earth's atmosphere absorbs much of the high-energy ultraviolet radiation, scientists use data from satellites positioned above the atmosphere, in orbit around the Earth, to sense UV radiation coming from our Sun and other astronomical objects. Scientists can study the formation of stars in ultraviolet since young stars shine most of their light at these wavelengths. This image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft reveals new young stars in the spiral arms of galaxy M81.
The difference in how the galaxies appear is due to which type of stars shine brightest in the optical and ultraviolet wavelengths. Ultraviolet images of galaxies show mainly clouds of gas containing newly formed stars that are many times more massive than the Sun and glow strongly in ultraviolet light. In contrast, visible light images of galaxies show mostly the yellow and red light of older stars. By comparing these types of data, astronomers can learn about the structure and evolution of galaxies.
Chemical processes in the upper atmosphere can affect the amount of atmospheric ozone that shields life at the surface from most of the Sun's harmful UV radiation. Each year, a "hole" of thinning atmospheric ozone expands over Antarctica, sometimes extending over populated areas of South America and exposing them to increased levels of harmful UV rays. The Dutch Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) onboard NASA's Aura satellite measures amounts of trace gases important to ozone chemistry and air quality. The image above shows the amount of atmospheric ozone in Dobson Units—the common unit for measuring ozone concentration. These data enable scientists to estimate the amount of UV radiation reaching the Earth's surface and forecast high-UV-index days for public health awareness.
Aurorae are caused by high-energy waves that travel along a planet's magnetic poles, where they excite atmospheric gases and cause them to glow. Photons in this high-energy radiation bump into atoms of gases in the atmosphere causing electrons in the atoms to excite, or move to the atom's upper shells. When the electrons move back down to a lower shell, the energy is released as light, and the atom returns to a relaxed state. The color of this light can reveal what type of atom was excited. Green light indicates oxygen at lower altitudes. Red light can be from oxygen molecules at a higher altitude or from nitrogen. On Earth, aurorae around the north pole are called the Northern Lights.
This unusual false-color image shows how the Earth glows in ultraviolet (UV) light. The Far UV Camera/Spectrograph deployed and left on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 16 captured this image. The part of the Earth facing the Sun reflects much UV light and bands of UV emission are also apparent on the side facing away from the Sun. These bands are the result of aurora caused by charged particles given off by the Sun. They spiral towards the Earth along Earth's magnetic field lines.
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