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Quiet aurora band

17.2.2017 at 22.46 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

The northern lights were arcuate in between, then a calm belt. Didn't move much. After midnight they brightened considerably, just as I was leaving.

Quiet aurora band

22.2.2017 at 03.35 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

The dim lights were already visible when I arrived at the scene at 3.16. The most active stage at 3.35, of which My Pictures. Gradually the lights dimmed, fading at four, and I decided to go home. The starry sky was at once clear and magnificent.

Quiet aurora band

25.2.2017 at 23.18 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

The liveliest blazing moment of the calm northern lights belt at 11:18 p.m., followed by some red-glowing flying phenomenon outside the northern lights, perhaps some reflection of an airplane. At midnight, the repos snoozed totally.

Quiet aurora arc

5.3.2017 at 20.49 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

I started staring at the sky at 8:34 p.m., then only the camera eye saw something greenish. From time to time, the stars dimmed again, brightening again, then I realized the fog was hovering in the air. A very slight hint of the light of the Northern Lights was visible behind the fog, from which the image. At about half past ten, the skyline became clear, but even the repo seemed to be quite a dim haze. Otherwise, the atmosphere is fine, hovering fog in front, clear starry sky behind the crescent moon.

Quiet aurora band

6.3.2017 at 22.09 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

The clear starry sky and the fast solar wind activated me to walk along the former footsteps to the same place on the ice to look out over the skyline. There was something pale fog, I stood for an hour, but only non-existent movements were really visible. There was a planet on my right with me and a bright moon on my left.

Quiet aurora arc

23.3.2017 at 02.52 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

When I reached the shore of the lake at about 2.30 a light mist appeared on the horizon, quickly it began to brighten, forming a beautiful and shimmering arc. The best point in the vision was that the middle of the arc formed as if a shimmering ball descended towards the surface of the ice. At three the lights dimmed, it was time to go home.

Quiet aurora band

29.3.2017 at 00.21 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

When I arrived at the bridge before midnight, a clear arch was visible. I admired it for a little while, after which came more than half an hour of heavenly silence. I was already leaving when you suddenly appeared really clear from the left spreading and moving all over the area. They were bright to me. They winced and moved for a moment. Then it fell silent again.

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Quiet aurora arc

8.4.2017 at 03.12 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

I peeked at the Hankasalmi observatory page at night. Surprise. An arch was visible at the top. I had to put the wefts on and at least go to the yard to see. There it was. I tried to find the point where the arch with its radii would be best seen between the apartment buildings. When I found it, could not, I tumbled with the pedestal, the rays flew in the sky and their beauty remained only to the delight of my eyes. One image in the fading phase I finally got, after that the lights dimmed into a green mist.

Quiet aurora arc

15.4.2017 at 00.39 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

A beautiful arch was visible when I arrived at the beach. I watched it for almost an hour, hoping it would refresh to the radiation level. Did not flow. In addition, a thin cloud began to appear, on the other hand, the clouds shaped a certain mystique into a simple green arc. Village lights in the background, a former dark viewing spot already melting water.

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Half-sky auroras

22.4.2017 at 00.50 - Laukaa (IV)
Tarja Kouvo

The familiar beach, the familiar calm arch was visible before midnight. Now the arc was just higher than normal. It was again a long time of wonder between the arch, seen in two, intensifying, but being a quiet mass. Then all of a sudden! The whole half of the sky was full of moving belts, rays, some colors seemed reddish to me, even the momentum was moving. Hiljeni. Lightning-fast flashes of light almost started on my head, at first I thought my eyes were tired ... they weren't, between them a flash flashed in a pale cloud of northern lights, between somewhere in an empty spot. There was ...

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Quiet aurora arc

25.4.2017 at 01.01 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

The calm, stationary arch was dimly visible from 0.29 to 2.05. Towards the end, more light mist appeared on the bush in the second picture, but very faintly. The highlight was the slowly flying meteorite, which appeared just as the exposure was going on. Coincidence too! So I was hoping to intercept a meteorite flight, now it happened. Good end to my first repo season.

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Active aurora band

2.9.2017 at 01.13 - Laukaa (III)
Tarja Kouvo

The fires appeared as soon as I reached the beach. Really startled on their way. Post-wisdom: the shutter speed should have been shorter just right after the tripod mount. The walk continued for only a moment, then it was all over and the light gauze did not light up after an hour of waiting. I saw a light reddish belt that was light reddish, I didn't have time to get it.

Quiet aurora arc

16.8.2018 at 00.54 - 00.55 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

I left for the local beach at midnight to see if I could see. The oval had landed appropriately, stars were visible from the sky, even clouds. The rays were visible when I got to the beach, but I didn’t precede them when I was looking for a suitable shooting location on the pier. When it was found, the rays went out into a shimmering arc. It was only separated by taking a test shot and it wasn’t until about one o’clock that a new vibe started to happen. A couple of pictures of it. Before the two left home, then there was a feeling that nothing was happening anymore. A few assholes saw this, bu...

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Quiet aurora arc

24.9.2018 at 00.13 - Laukaa (II)
Tarja Kouvo

A dim arc of rays appeared shortly after I arrived at the beach. The phenomenon lasted only a moment, soon the arc disappeared. For an hour and a half, I waited for the phenomenon to recur, but in those initial minutes, the northern lights remained. The moon shone brightly behind him and one meteorite flew west after taking the picture.

Active aurora band

7.10.2018 at 21.14 - 23.23 - Laukaa (III)
Tarja Kouvo

The clear arch was immediately visible when I reached the shore above the lake, the first picture of it. The beautiful arch moved somewhat. Eventually it dimmed, nothing happened for a long time. Around eleven o'clock then began the show, there was a beam, the arc passed forward in the sky like a train in its own right, between the northern lights were almost on my head. Great experience!

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Active aurora band

10.10.2018 at 21.47 - 23.36 - Laukaa (III)
Tarja Kouvo

While trying, I tried a new place in the middle of the fields away from the extra harmful lights. On the dark road, the weak arch appeared hazy beautiful, I was waiting for what would happen .. the mass seemed to condense on the horizon, soon the fires flashed to life and I marveled, amazed at how the dark road turned bright. I photographed what I used to while trying to do color analysis of the fire I saw with the naked eye. I think they had color. When the fires ended, I was hopefully waiting for a new screen, trying to make a small ray, but it did. When I returned home, I was still blinking...

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Active aurora band

14.9.2020 at 01.11 - 02.22 - Laukaa (III)
Tarja Kouvo

Coincidentally, I visited the Hankasalmi observatory page and there was a greenery visible there. So suddenly to the beach. The sky was a clear starry sky, which is also why it was worth leaving. At first, the gauze was already visible, then it condensed, the movement began. More was an arc in the lead, and some rays. I wasn’t equipped for that night trip, so the battery wasn’t full. When the battery was discharged, it started to cloud a little, and the sky remained in a gauze-like state.

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Active aurora band

24.10.2020 at 00.00 - 01.30 - Laukaa (III)
Tarja Kouvo

The rays were visible in moderation and a certain arc. At half past two, the clouds packed on and the fires were covered.

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Quiet aurora arc

5.9.2021 at 01.39 - Utsjoki, Karigasniemi (II)
Tarja Kouvo

A brilliant fan visible quite clearly rose behind the trees, there were few clouds in the sky here and there, and without those disturbing clouds, I think the fan beam would have been even magnificent. The direction of shooting is the western or Norwegian side. Soon there was a drizzle and with it the departure home.

Half-sky auroras

11.9.2021 at 00.07 - 02.00 - Utsjoki, Karigasniemi (IV)
Tarja Kouvo

Already when I left home I saw that in the yard I was already on my head, on the beach they had a gauze, a belt on the horizon with rays and in between they came to stamp directly on my head. I did not see them in color with the naked eye, although in the second image the camera revealed blue rays.

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