CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Please note I do not have a Muslim background. The artwork is a yearly greeting card created for my Muslim family. This year the Holy Month perfectly aligns with Lent, which will make our Iftar dinner plans... interesting.

#RamadanMubarak to all of you who celebrate! May you be granted health, peace and strength for all your efforts.

(Drawing below is CC-NC-SA)

#ramadan

I'm currently working on a blog post about the event and the editing of aurora photos. It will be proof-read by a friendly neighbourhood astrophysicist so hopefully even professionals will be able to stomach the text without developing anger issues. If anyone's interested in it, give me a shout.

Last Jan19th post. "Swan song". Things calmed down quicklly after 22:00 UTC. The aurora oval retreated northwards, with only a dull glow remaining. Stark Difference even after a barely 15 minute drive to a second photo location (image 2). Image 3 shows a faint SAR bow visible around 4:00 UTC next morning.

#aurora #northernlights #nightPhotography

#SilentSunday #gradient #evening

Yesterday's #sunrise.

Next part of #aurora photos. Never thought I'd get to witness such a spectacle here. When the IPA (isolated proton aurora) visible in image 2 & 4 took off.... Wow. Words can't describe it. Images are in chronological order, panoramas of 8-12 images shot within 3-8 minutes beginning 21:30 UTC.
If you want to see a video of it: Someone near Stuttgart filmed that bright green burst visible in my last pic in *real time*: https://youtu.be/e19kAuC-6eU

#nightphotography #northernlights #astrophotography

Next bunch of Jan19 #aurora pictures for #FotoMontag: I would have gone home a happy bunny just getting images like the first one. The shock front of CMEs rarely causes the most visually stunning parts of a storm (especially down here in Central Europe). But then the sky cracked like an egg and became a silent concert of color and movement.

#northernlights #nightPhotography

Panoramas from last week's unreal #aurora event are finally done and will be posted here every #FotoMontag.
Starting with the tame ones, before the show really took off.
edit: wording.

Photo from yesterday. Pictures from Monday's little Ragnarök rehearsal will take a while, though. Many of those are complex panoramas, some wider than 180°. Takes time that is currently demanded elsewhere.

#aurora #nightPhotography #solarstorm