The Northern Lights - a life time experience (Official trailer)

The Crow salutes Pål Brekke for assembling this neat video about the aurora, which you can see in full at the at the Holmenkollen Ski Museum in Oslo. Hope I get a chance to visit that, not only aurora but I would dig the seeing the old skis and skates.

The Old Crow Lectures on the Aurora: Friday, 19 April @ RASC-London

The Old Crow Lectures on the Aurora: Friday, 19 April @ RASC-London

I’ve been invited by the Royal Astronomical Society of London to give a public talk:

The Aurora Borealis and Space Weather
Space Weather is the study of the interaction of the particles which flow from the Sun with Earth’s atmosphere. This talk will describe the visual result apparent to us on the surface, the Northern (and Southern) Lights, as well as give a lay description of a cutting edge of research: how can the particles from the Sun affect weather on the surface?
Come on out if just to heckle :–)

Aurora Seen from Northern Ontario: 1 October 2012

Spectacular photo of the aurora (Northern Lights) from last night’s large solar storm from Thunder Bay, Ontario (from The Weather Network).

Some terrific auroral pictures by Øystein Lunde Ingvaldsen in National Geographic.

via images.nationalgeographic.com

Terrific auroral pictures, see the full National Geographic story http://bit.ly/gxxCk8 for more pictures and information. I spend many years in Alaska observing aurora and took a few shots in my time, but these photos have both beautiful detail and great color in the red lower borders.