Northern lights photos 2003

19.8.2003

This year's photos are taken with Canon Powershot G3. We bought some extra optics for it. Soligor's 0.25x fisheye is used in some of these images.

I (Emma) was surprised to see these beatiful auroras in August. The first photos were taken at the local observatory in Tampere.

Later that same night I moved to the shore of lake Särkijärvi in Tampere, Finland.

At 1 am. the band of auroras in the northern horizon started to form some beautiful and complex dragons to the sky.

We've had a tradition to take a photo of ourselves beneath the northern lights.

Before heading for home, I collected this aurora video consisting of 50 pictures.

19.8.2003 Northern lights video [DIVX]

30.-31.10.2003

This great aurora show that was visible for example in Athens was mostly covered with clouds here in Finland. However thanks to the alarms we got from Tom Eklund and Timo Leponiemi, we managed to see something near the city Porvoo in the southern shore of the country.

Everything didn't go as planned since our camera had been accidentally turned on and its battery had emptied itself while we were driving to the site. Therefore we didn't get any evidence of the biggest fish of the night. These two pictures were taken later in the night when we'd charged the battery in a nearby gas station.

20.-21.11.2003

We cursed the weather that autumn in Finland. All the finest aurora shows were mainly lost behind the clouds. This night Tom Eklund and I (Emma) headed for Pori where someone had seen a patch of clear sky. We managed to see some of the show, but soon wast amounts of mist hid everything.

Only red northern lights were seen that night.

This picture has been slightly gamma corrected.

Note that the band of auroras is in this picture in the *sothern* horizon and not in the northern as usual.

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