{"id":106,"date":"2008-03-01T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/northern-lights-4\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T09:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:26:27","slug":"northern-lights-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/northern-lights-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/photography\/northern_lights\/northern_lights_photography.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troyjohnstone.com\/astrophotography\/images\/TWJ_Northern_Lights_auora_borealis__20080301_4.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"Northern Lights\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since I arrived in Alberta I have been waiting for the opportunity to photograph the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aurora_%28astronomy%29\">Aurora Borealis<\/a>. I have been wanting to try and photograph them for years, but we are still a few years from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_maximum\">solar max<\/a>, so the night sky has been pretty quiet.<\/p>\n<p>I had signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aurorachasers.com\/\">auroral activity email alerts<\/a> to let me know when they may be visible and it paid off. Friday night at about 11:00 PM I checked my email and saw the possibility of aurora so I checked some space weather sites (Canadian  Space Weather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.gc.ca\/forecastmap_e.php\">www.spaceweather.gc.ca\/forecastmap_e.php<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\">www.spaceweather.com<\/a>) and saw that the sky show was on!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/uploaded_images\/pmapN-778171.gif\" rel=\"lightbox[375]\"><img style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/uploaded_images\/pmapN-778168.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(the auroral activity ring that night)<\/p>\n<p>I quickly packed up my tripod, camera, some warm clothes and headed off to a friends farm. I knew he was a poor shot so I would be safe walking around behind his house. I spent a couple hours out getting pictures from different locations. That time of night it is very quiet except for the  distant howling of the coyotes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyjohnstone.com\/astrophotography\/index.html\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troyjohnstone.com\/astrophotography\/images\/TWJ_Northern_Lights_auora_borealis__20080301_4.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"Northern Lights\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Usually I was taking 30 second exposures and the camera would do a noise reduction for another 30 seconds. So I had a lot of very quiet minutes to just watch and contemplate God&#8217;s beautiful creation and thank him for the opportunity to witness it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Northern Skies by Troy And Naomi, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troyandnaomi\/2302657354\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2051\/2302657354_9c472264da.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Skies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After awhile the auroral display started to calm down to just a dim green glow so I packed it in and was home around 2:30 AM. Late night, but definitely worth staying out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyjohnstone.com\/astrophotography\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troyjohnstone.com\/astrophotography\/images\/TWJ_Northern_Lights_auora_borealis__20080301_3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Northern Lights\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to see more of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyjohnstone.com\/astrophotography\/\">photography of the night sky and Northern Lights, go to my Astrophotography gallery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I arrived in Alberta I have been waiting for the opportunity to photograph the Aurora Borealis. 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