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Title: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: sam on January 21, 2011, 14:59

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Northern lights sweep above a cabin in Abisko in northern Sweden on January 7. "The entire sky opened up like a beautiful inferno," photographer Peter Rosén told spaceweather.com. "Red, blue and green like a dancing queen on the sky."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/pictures/110120-aurora-borealis-northern-lights-science-space/?now=2011-01-20-00:01#/january-2011-northern-lights-aurora-borealis-abisko-lapland_31389_600x450.jpg

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Rik on January 21, 2011, 15:34

Stunning pics, Sam.

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Clive on January 21, 2011, 16:45

Phew!  They are among the best I've seen!  Lucky people!  8-)

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Rik on January 21, 2011, 16:52

To say awesome would not be hyperbole for once, eh Clive?

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Clive on January 21, 2011, 17:01

I had planned to take a holiday in Tromso next February but it was already fully booked by last July!   :dunno:

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Rik on January 21, 2011, 17:03

I suppose a lot of people have the ambition and Tromso doesn't want to get swallowed up by tourism.

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Clive on January 21, 2011, 17:24

I don't think it's a very big place.  There are lots of aurora plane flights available but looking out of an aeroplane window can't be very satisfactory.   :dunno:

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Rik on January 21, 2011, 17:28

No, you need to be somewhere quiet.

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: sam on January 21, 2011, 17:29

I actually had a pretty spectacular view of the aurora on my flight back from Canada at Christmas - first time I've properly seen it. I guess that's what you get when you fly over Yellowknife.

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Rik on January 21, 2011, 17:32

Did the environment of the plane detract from the experience for you, Sam?

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: sam on January 21, 2011, 21:01

oh yeah, but still was phenomenal. It was a normal commercial jet, the ones that fly up their for that purpose are setup better than that though.

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Simon on January 21, 2011, 21:49

Wouldn't it be wonderful to spend a week in that house in #1.   :)

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: sam on January 21, 2011, 22:11

might be cold though

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Simon on January 21, 2011, 22:21

True.  :snow:

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Clive on January 21, 2011, 22:54

Well done Sam!  That must have been the icing on the cake! 

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Rik on January 22, 2011, 11:37

Back to weddings, Clive? ;D

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Clive on January 22, 2011, 15:25

We are all expecting an invite to Sam's.   :devil:

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Rik on January 22, 2011, 16:08

 ;D

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: sam on January 22, 2011, 17:40

Quote from: Clive on January 22, 2011, 15:25

We are all expecting an invite to Sam's.   :devil:

darn. :p

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Simon on January 22, 2011, 17:40

 :laugh:

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Rik on January 22, 2011, 17:42

Simon & I will bring our own steaks. ;D

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: Simon on January 22, 2011, 18:07

 :evilban:

Title: Re: New Aurora Pictures: First Big Show of 2011
Post by: sam on January 22, 2011, 19:49

 ::)