Antarctica Twilight Stars and Auroras

Posted by Anthony and Christine Powell at 7/19/2009 2:20 PM
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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.

It is just over a month before the sun actually rises again for us.

Last night a group of us went out in a Pisten Bully to take some photos at Castle Rock...

The Pisten Bully parked at the base of Castle Rock, and other photographers setting up cameras

Castle Rock and stars

Shot taken from a time-lapse sequence I did. Mount Erebus with a small aurora behind it, and red steam being lit up by the lava in the crater at it's peak

Back at McMurdo, the satellite dome on the hill back-lit by the northern noon glow

This is an older photo I just found that I didn't realize I had. Looking south, auroras in the sky, with the lights of the Pegasus Airfield out on the Ice Shelf. The runway will be getting rebuilt very shortly in preparation for Winfly.


Moon dog: the halo around the moon caused by ice crystals in the air


 

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