Astronomy

It’s been almost a year since I started my journey into time-lapse photography. This project has been an ongoing process for about 4 months. There was a lot of trial and error involved, and I spent many sleepless nights in many different unexpected places. Creating this film has taught me about patience, and what it really takes to achieve the shot that you dream about in your head. I realized through the process tha .....

“Last summer I decided it was time to see the this “world” I had been hearing so much about. So I bought a backpack, bought a guide book and booked a flight to Peru with a return flight from Brazil. And so began the best summer of my life. This video montage is basically a summary of the trip, showcasing some of the beautiful places and faces that I encountered. Filmed on a Canon 550D with Magic Lan .....

Best video of 2012 so far. .....

As expected, a CME hit Earth’s magnetic field on Jan. 24th at approximately 1500 UT (10 am EST). The impact produced a G1-class geomagnetic storm and bright auroras around the Arctic Circle. As the storm crested, Göran Strand of Östersund, Sweden, took a panoramic photo and wrapped it 360-degrees to create this composition, which he calls Planet Aurora: VIA Spaceweather. .....

This morning, Jan. 23rd around 0359 UT, big sunspot 1402 erupted, producing a long-duration M9-class solar flare. The explosion’s M9-ranking puts it on the threshold of being an X-flare, the most powerful kind. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the flare’s extreme ultraviolet flash: It is the strongest geomagnetic storm in more than six years and is forecast to hit Earth’s magnetic fi .....

Some stunning time-lapses in this. .....

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The sun is waking up from one of the deepest solar minima in a century, and the solar cycle seems to be rapidly gaining strength. Forecasters expect a new “Solar Max” in 2012-2013 with plenty of aurora storms between now and then. VIA SPACEWEATHER. .....

A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth on Oct. 24th at approximately 1800 UT (2:00 pm EDT). The impact strongly compressed Earth’s magnetic field, directly exposing geosynchronous satellites to solar wind plasma, and sparked an intense geomagnetic storm. As night fell over North America, auroras spilled across the Canadian border into the contiguous United States. The display spread all the way down to Arkansa .....

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This week was fairly rubbish so far. Seeing the world like this pretty much puts it all in perspective though. That thin, faint, green glow you see at the end is the earth’s atmosphere. THE AURORA AUSTRALIS, or Southern Lights, have been captured on video by astronauts in the International Space Station (ISS). .....

Earth orbit is a great place to watch geomagnetic storms. On July 14th, astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) witnessed a broad curtain of green auroras over the southern hemisphere. This is what aurora australis looks like from space. VIA Spaceweather .....