Stunning Aurora Video: Polar Spirits

By Nancy Atkinson - April 16, 2013 at 6:08 PM UTC | uncategorized

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This year, there have been some epic auroral displays, and astrophotographer

Ole C. Salomonsen

has just released this new video which includes real-time recordings of these "polar spirits."

"My main focus is on getting the auroras [to] show as close as possible to real-time speed given the time available in a short video," Salomonsen wrote on

Vimeo

. "In the film I have tried to show the slower majestic dancing lights, as well as the more faster, dramatic and abstract shows, and finally the auroras in combination with city lights and urban elements."

Simply stunning, and if you watch closely on the opening sequence you can actually see some whales breaching out in the fjord!

POLAR SPIRITS

from

Ole C. Salomonsen

Vimeo

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

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