AURORAE and NOCTILUCENT CLOUD

   Aurorae or Northern Lights can be a spendid sight particularly from dark sites. Noctilucent Cloud are about 80km above the earth. Some photography by members:


Great Aurora November 20th 2003

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Auroral Corona at the zenith 20th/21st,November 2003. Taken from near Kells, Co.Meath with a digital camera. Photo by John O'Neill

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Left: Auroral Corona in Pegasus. Right: Rays in the Summer Triangle. Nov 20/21, 2003. Taken from Co. Wicklow with a 28mm focal-length wide angle lens.
Kodak Elitechrome 200 ISO with 35 sec. exposures at f/2.8 by John Flannery

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Left: Auroral Rays. Right: Auroral Corona at the zenith. 20th/21st, November 2003. Taken from near Kells, Co.Meath with a Kodak DC 4800 digital camera.
Exposures 12 sec at ISO 400 F2.8 by Gerry Moloney


Aurora October 2003

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Auroral Red Rays in Aquila 29th/30th,October 2003. Taken from near Kells, Co.Meath with a digital camera. Photo by John O'Neill

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Left: Auroral Bands below the Plough. 29th/30th October 2003. Right: Aurora Band and Rays in Gemini with Saturn. 29th/30th October 2003. Taken from Co.Kildare with a 28mm focal-length lens camera on ISO 400 film. Photos by John Flannery

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Auroral Red Rays covering the Summer Triangle 29th/30th,October 2003. Taken from near Kells, Co.Meath with a digital camera. Photo by Gerry Moloney


Aurora October 2001

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Auroral Patch October 21/22, 2001. Castor and Pollux with Jupiter lie just west. Taken from the Dublin Mountains with a wide angle lens. Photo by John Flannery


Alaska Aurora October 2000

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Polar Aurora October 26-27, 2000 from Chena Hot Springs, Alaska. 28mm focal-length wide angle lens. Taken on Kodak Elite Chrome 200 slide film. Photo by John O'Neill


The Great April 2000 Aurora

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Auroral Coronal display April 6, 2000 28mm wide angle lens (lens hood caused vignetting at corners). Taken on Fujichrome Sensia II ISO 400 slide film. Photo by Gary Nugent


Noctilucent Cloud July 2006

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Digital Camera image (on 14th July 2006 at 22:51 UT) with exposure of 10 seconds by John O'Neill from Rush, Co.Dublin.


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