Borealis 2000 News - Aurora at Cleary Summit

"Today we will have 16 hours and
49 minutes of sun shine and we are gaining 6 or 7 minutes every day.
By June 21 the sun will be up for around 22 hours up here on Cleary Summit. Can you believe that we go on daylight savings time up here???"

Location: Cleary Summit, 20 miles northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska
Camera: Olympus digital C3040, f1.8, 400 ISO

"I took these at 1:15 am, (1:00 am is local midnight here), today and as you can see, we are in the middle of a sunset/sunrise here at 65 degrees north. The aurora is pretty well overpowered by the sun even though we're in a minor geomagnetic storm."

Below:
A collection of images captured
by Chuck Johnson between
December and March

The Aurora Season 2002/2003 is coming to an end in Alaska and at many other high latitude regions of the northern hemisphere. "These will probably be the last aurora photos from here until next August when it starts getting dark enough to see the lights again" states Chuck Johnson on April 30.

Aurora and moonrise on March 19 at 10:00 pm (above left) and 10:30 pm (above right)

March 5 at 10:30 pm (images above and below left) - f1.8, 400 ISO, 16 second exposures

March 1 at 1:00 am (images below and above right)

February 26 at 12:20 am (images below)

A major geomagnetic storm at 5:30 am (14:30 UTC) on February 2 (images below) - f1.8, 400 ISO, 8-16 sec. exposures

Note: Planet Jupiter (in the center of above images) is located between the constellations Leo (left) and Gemini (right)

January 24 at 11:45 pm (above)