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Nora Leggs

Wed, 13 May 2015 20:32:11 +1200

That's cle_er Jackson, hitting a whole lot with one link. There's the genie near the Auckland library too, and Ralph Hotere in Kingsland. There is a bit in different parts along Dominion Road, long road small returns?

This is Grafton.

JacksonP

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:08:07 +1200

I’m assuming Grey Lynn, Dominion Road etc?

K'Rd would be best. Last month they had the annual All Fresco on K'Rd and surrounds. If you follow the link to the All Fresco Website, there's a link to the map.

Happy hunting, and welcome to Aucks.

Paul Williams

Tue, 12 May 2015 18:02:09 +1200

With apologies for the 'dear interwebs' request, I'm in Auckland for a few days and am trying to find time away from other responsibilities to check out graffiti/urban art. Are there particular streets, 'burbs in/around the Capture community recommends? I'm assuming Grey Lynn, Dominion Road etc?

Katharine Moody

Mon, 11 May 2015 21:30:55 +1200

What a lovely 'just me and the heavens' moment that would have been.

Agree with everyone – big thanks to the photographers for sharing.

David Hood

Mon, 11 May 2015 20:39:58 +1200

A bit of jump in sky energy activity this evening, not quite enough yet to get me out of the house, but enough to pass it on to southern folk to keep an eye on.

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 20 Apr 2015 07:37:59 +1200

Incoming!
http://www.spaceweather.com/ reports:
Yesterday, April 18th, a magnetic filament attached to sunspot group AR2321 erupted, producing a C5-class solar flare. A movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the filament splitting the sun's atmosphere as it hurtles away from the blast site:
Part of the escaping filament formed the core…

Jason Kemp

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:24:22 +1200

Thanks Again Paul & Ian, I had seen some of these on twitter but not all and it was great to find them here in one place.

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:29:44 +1300

Incoming!!
SOLAR WIND STREAMS--HITS AND MISSES: A solar wind stream expected to hit Earth on March 29-30 has apparently missed. It likely sailed south of our planet. The good news for sky watchers is, another one is on the way. It is flowing from this gaping coronal hole on the…

Sofie Bribiesca

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:46:08 +1300

Nice. Very martian.

Shaun Scott

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:39:33 +1300

Wonderful photos from two very generous photographers.

Last year our 14 year old daughter and I were lucky enough to see our first Aurora- heading off to Tomahawk beach in Dunedin, kindly met by Paul. He gave me a very quick and helpful instruction on my camera settings, and also…

Sofie Bribiesca

Sun, 22 Mar 2015 18:05:47 +1300

What beautiful images of the sky.
On the eve of Sunday’s Cyclone I got a few shots of what felt like a very nice sunset. The sky was all over the place like a…

David Hood

Sat, 21 Mar 2015 22:45:15 +1300

Sorta related to the whole dim light thing, human beings emit photons

http://io9.com/human-bodies-glow-proving-that-the-world-is-weirder-th-1692485686

Lilith __

Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:26:17 +1300

Seriously, though. Aurorae are very high above the Earth, in the almost-vacuum of the magnetosphere.

Les Cowley of www.atoptics.co.uk has some really good pages on the physics of aurorae. Particularly this one on the atmospheric particles involved. To quote part of it:

Green oxygen aurorae are at 100 km up…

Lilith __

Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:18:25 +1300

Eddie's in the space-time continuum

Imagine if radiation from the sun reached us here on Earth!
Oh wait.
;-)

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 21 Mar 2015 17:48:29 +1300

Flow and Eddy...
They say that aurora sing to you. It seemed so. As one watched, these curtains...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cszPz09Od6Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHvdZdsIZxg

Lilith __

Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:04:21 +1300

As one watched, these curtains – imagine floor to ceiling drapes and you are looking from the floor up into them – swished and danced and jetted toward me and drifted back to space. Then to be replaced by another set adjacent to begin the show again.

That would be…

Ross Mason

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:12:56 +1300

12 months of my past were spent at Scott Base. Of course with 4 months of darkness aurora were visible regularly. One particular active evening I ventured out in about ten layers, took a ground sheet and snuck out to a quiet spot and lay on the snow. They say…

Lilith __

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:34:51 +1300

I’ll wear a parka. ;-)

An anorak, pls. And BYO Thermos and sandwiches. x

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:12:08 +1300

I’ll wear a parka.
It really is more duffle coat territory...

Hebe

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:32:20 +1300

Marvellously amazing. Thank you.

Sacha

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:49:10 +1300

Wow. We would be toast. Wonder if that was the inspiration for Triffids?

JacksonP

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:27:08 +1300

It gets cold down here, you know. ;-)

I'll wear a parka. ;-)

Grant McDougall

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:21:40 +1300

I had the same feelings looking at Blair Parkes’ latest Beach Storm double exposures…We do need to organise a Capture post from that man.

Would love to see one, please.

Kimberley Simpson

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:26:41 +1300

Wow, just wow. Nature is the most spectacular of things.

Lilith __

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:12:02 +1300

PS WONDERFUL shots Ian and Paul, thanks for staying up all night so the rest of us could enjoy. :-)

Lilith __

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:11:08 +1300

Would certainly hop on a plane to see this first hand, if I had some advanced warning.

It gets cold down here, you know. ;-)

Lilith __

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:10:39 +1300

This photo, taken on a good night last year, was my first aurora! This is a 15sec exposure. My naked eyes could only see a faint and rather magical dancing field of lightness. If I hadn't specifically been looking for it I wouldn't have noticed it. But I pointed the…

JacksonP

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:06:45 +1300

I’d really love to be able to know enough in advance to hop on a plane and see one.

I nabbed this from Paul's timeline, and he would know better how to interpret it.

From the Space Weather Prediction Center.

I was thinking the same thing last night. Would certainly…

Lilith __

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:04:07 +1300

How does it feel to be under a sky like that?

It's pretty amazing, but our eyes don't see colour very well in low light. With a bright aurora we can see a flickering lightness in part of the sky. Tip: look slightly away from where you expect the aurora…

Angela Hart

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:28:42 +1300

WOW! Thanks so much for sharing this rare beauty.

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:04:24 +1300

Without yeast I’m not going to rise...
I'm leaven well enough alone, too...
:- )

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:02:06 +1300

St Elmo's fire...*
I love this bit:
The atmosphere was so charged, however, that operators made an incredible discovery: They could unplug their batteries and still transmit messages to Portland, Maine, at 30- to 90-second intervals using only the auroral current.
Tesla, come in please...

* that's the plasma not…

Bart Janssen

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:54:36 +1300

Here are the fluor-essentials

Without yeast I'm not going to rise to that bait

Russell Brown

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:53:15 +1300

I had the same feelings looking at Blair Parkes’ latest Beach Storm double exposures…

We do need to organise a Capture post from that man.

David Hood

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:39:35 +1300

Ian, a Carrington Event these days would simultaneously produce awesome Aurora and fry modern infrastructure.

history link

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:18:09 +1300

I’m kind of speechless looking at these pictures. Emotional, even.
I had the same feelings looking at Blair Parkes' latest Beach Storm double exposures...

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:07:30 +1300

Seriously how do you monitor when to expect a good aurora?
Director of Light Entertainment…
Here are the fluor-essentials…
:- )

http://www.spaceweather.com/
have email ‘spaceweather alerts’
or just checking there each day for solar events heading our way gives you a bit of lead time to get out to a…

Sacha

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:44:54 +1300

Even better large like this. Incredible. Thank you for staying up and sharing.

Peter Darlington

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:26:54 +1300

Magnificent.

Bart Janssen

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:25:21 +1300

Those are amazing photos guys. I'm very jealous.

Is there an app for that?

Seriously how do you monitor when to expect a good aurora? I'd really love to be able to know enough in advance to hop on a plane and see one.

Rob Stowell

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:20:42 +1300

Wow! Thanks, intrepid photographers. Rain and overcast in Chch area, so didn't even go outside to look. But I will tonight!

Nora Leggs

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 06:57:54 +1300

WOWWW. How does it feel to be under a sky like that?

FletcherB

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:50:02 +1300

Awesome photos, thanks...

I have yet to witness this phenomena myself, but so wish to do so some time...

TV news said it was visible as far north as Auckland last night? I wish I'd have known to look :(

Chris Waugh

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:40:53 +1300

Awesome photos and video. And there may be more tonight?

JacksonP

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:39:51 +1300

Ian has put together a time lapse of his photos already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxyImmQhujE

Amazeballs!

Russell Brown

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:38:23 +1300

I'm kind of speechless looking at these pictures. Emotional, even. Thank you, guys.

Public Address

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:38:23 +1300

Discussion from blog post.