Working in Twilight
The sun has gone, but we still get some noon twilight for a couple of hours each day for another couple of weeks.
The brightest stars can still be seen all day though.
Here's a couple of photos taken in the middle of the day during the latest traverse out to Black Island to work on the Satellite Ground Station...
The two Pisten Bully vehicles driving across Black Island
Some of the ice formations created by the summer melt on the ice shelf in front of Black Island
Now that it is dark most the time, we have also begun to see auroras a bit more regularly too.
Here's a shot taken on Sunday night out the back window of the dorm building where I live.
The display was only average in terms of brightness, but it lasted steadily for about 3 hours, and allowed me to capture some great time-lapse sequences of them moving across the sky.
The Aurora Australis or Southern Lights. These are the southern hemisphere equivalent of the
Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights.
The brightest stars can still be seen all day though.
Here's a couple of photos taken in the middle of the day during the latest traverse out to Black Island to work on the Satellite Ground Station...
The two Pisten Bully vehicles driving across Black Island
Some of the ice formations created by the summer melt on the ice shelf in front of Black Island
Now that it is dark most the time, we have also begun to see auroras a bit more regularly too.
Here's a shot taken on Sunday night out the back window of the dorm building where I live.
The display was only average in terms of brightness, but it lasted steadily for about 3 hours, and allowed me to capture some great time-lapse sequences of them moving across the sky.
The Aurora Australis or Southern Lights. These are the southern hemisphere equivalent of the
Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights.
Middle school students looked at your sites for our IPY project. They wanted me to ask, "Do you have any images of the Ulysses phrase on/at the cross at Ob Hill for our class motto?" And for our project we were wondering if you saw the sunset? What was it like? Thank You!
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I didn't see the very last sunset this year, but have seen many of them in the past. Normally only the top edge of the sun is above the horizon on the last day, looking very orange as it travels right to left for about 30 minutes, then is gone.
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Alas I don't have a photo of the writing. It is one of those things I need to do sometime when the sun comes back, but is quite hard because the lettering is so worn now from years of wear on the cross.
I found a picture on line here, but as you can see the lettering is very hard to read...
http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~nikola/southpole/BigImages/2002_2003/McM_ObsPoint_ThomasCross.JPG
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