
Fly-Lapse from Anthony Powell on Vimeo.
The
temperatures typically drop quite dramatically over the next month or so as we
enter what is normally the coldest time of the year here.
In the mean
time, we are starting to see signs of the sun returning. There is quite a glow
to the north in the middle of the day now, and many of the stars overhead
disappear for an hour or two at noon.
We are past mid-winter now.
Mid-winter day is the premiere holiday in Antarctica. The various stations will send greetings to each other to celebrate the middle of the “longest night.”
Special mid-winter dinner celebrations were held at Scott Base and McMurdo, in which the chefs went all out to put on a suitable feast.
We have finally had a few good aurora displays. I filled up about 60Gigs of hard drive space with photos in one afternoon when I was out at Black Island.
Here are a few photos from the last few weeks…
floodlights pointing straight up in the air.
The cross on top is the memorial marker to Robert Scott and his men.
the start of a time-lapse sequence to capture the galaxy moving across the sky...
I would have actually preferred dark skies. But the auroras looked pretty good too.
in the background.
The streaks of light in the sky are satellites passing overhead.
fly here in winter). I stood still there for about 10 minutes to get a time-lapse photo
sequence of the aurora with me in it.
The glow in the sky is from a combination of the sun and the moon behind a cloud just
to the right of Erebus. An aurora is also on the right of the picture.
over a period of a couple of hours.
Notice how celestial south pole is only slightly offset from the top of the tower.
The green bits in the sky are frm some auroras that passed through.




