Anthony’s Blog

A truly fantastic night 02.04.2020

The northern lights were quite pale in the clear sky. The evening passed with just a few weak signs of life from the northern lights. They filled the sky but were so pale and to the eye not easy to see in the bright moon light. Then the huge arc of the northern lights almost…
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Half a moon with northern lights 01.04.2020

Tonight the moon reached half full status, it was bright in the thin patchy cloud. The northern lights were further north, dancing over the hill tops on the horizon. There was though a huge pale band, a ghostly green arc through the camera of the northern lights. The moonlight was bright enough to almost hide…
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A corona to end the display 31.03.2020

The northern lights brightened and really came to life as we watched. Then one of the bands of green light began creeping south in our direction  weaving a little -like a snake-. It was fantastic viewing as it came nearer our location, then the end of it was above us. The end formed a back…
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Moonlight shadows and the northern lights 30.03.2020

Tonight the treetops shadows stretched across the snow towards the northern lights. As twilight faded the northern lights hit full power. What a combination of moonlight, twilight and strong northern lights we got for the start of our night. Tall fingers of light reaching from the north southward, passing overhead on their journey to dominate…
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Crescent moon in a perfect sky 29.03.2020

The setting crescent moon was our early evening companion, the northern lights also were there to help brighten this perfect dark sky. The moon was hiding in the tree tops leaving us to watch the northern lights as they reached further south in perfect conditions. The tall streaks of light reaching ever higher into space…
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The northern lights could not wait for darkness 28.03.2020

This evening as the twilight faded the northern lights could be seen rippling across the clear sky. Through the camera such beautiful colours in the remaining pale light of the day. Then later a strong arc reached all the way across the now dark sky then it burst open and the northern lights pushed south…
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