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Northern Lights Zenith Corona

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Shot in Norway, Bodø at a local place called Mjelle :D !

This evening / night me and my friend Gaute was going out to shoot a Draconid meteor shower that was comming to pass earth this day, the 8th October 2011 !

When we arrived at the "spot" we saw weak lines of Auroras at approx 08:45PM.
The meteors started showing up flying over the sky above our heads ! We knew the spot on the sky where the meteor shower was reported to come from, as best spotting place !

The Northern Lights faded across that point on the sky, as 2 weak lines just growing into 3 - 4 and then columns started to show up too :D !

The Aurora activity was reported as low or quiet. But my map sayed something else, more as extreme and severe activity !
The activity went from weak to extreme in no time ! As i like to say, i now know is very common with this phenomen of the solar winds and our magnetic fields ! :D

The Northern Lights exploded at around 22:23PM when my first picture of active lights was shot ! Then we had waited for some hours watching meteors comming into the atmosphere above us and lit up over the sky !
That extreme aurora activity was stealing the Draconid meteor`s show !

So we lost focus on the meteors and shot the auroras instead !

After awhile right on top of us the lines ad columns formed a corona a corona, zeith was born !!! :D The lines was moving everywhere ! The colours was mostly green, aqua like with some smooth red as the upper layer, visible for the human eye !!!

The actual picture is a converted RAW - 14 Bits file with manual camera settings, offcourse ;)
It`s a type two zenith corona as i`ve learned now ! And i LOVE IT ! it`s so extreme looking right upon this phenomen, more amazing then lines or giant columns, it`s so much life and colour in this corona shaped Northern Lights !

also with this picture is noise reduction done with dfine2.0 ;) trying something new ! as high ISO and a quick shutter gives some noise :( But i`m happy with the result !

Have a nice week everyone ! :D

for more of my corona pictures :

The first i shot :
[link]

The second :
[link]

The third :
[link]

For more of my northern lights pictures, please have a look at my aurora folder : [link]
Image size
4288x2848px 3.95 MB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D300S
Shutter Speed
6/1 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
11 mm
ISO Speed
640
Date Taken
Oct 8, 2011, 10:36:55 PM
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mirv4's avatar
I saw this zenith corona on the sky tonight! But I didn't got this great photo like you! :)