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One halo form

9.1.2016 at 14.30 - Kuhmo (I)
Jesse Alatalo

I was photographing on the ice of Lentua in Kuhmo, and on my way out of the shooting trip we noticed a handsome halo column from the car window that came from the sun falling below the horizon. Car parked on the side of the ice road, and camera in hand and photograph.

Comments: 1 pcs

M42

16.12.2015 at 21.00 - Kuhmo (IV)
Jesse Alatalo

I went to try the Sigman 70-200mm f2.8 APO tube I bought in star photography and the M42, which is familiar to everyone, was chosen as the target. The image is stacked from 100x3 "exposures, and the imaging camera was the Nikon D3100, with no tracking. The image is stacked with a Deep Sky Stacker and the colors in the image are excavated in the Lightroom.

Auroras seen through breaks in the clouds

3.11.2015 at 20.05 - Kuhmo (II)
Jesse Alatalo

I was jogging with the dogs when I noticed that the sky was greening comfortably and not even the clouds were detrimental. Once the dogs were out, it was the camera's turn to get oxygen. I walked to the shore of a nearby lake, and set the camera in place only to notice that the clouds were rolling into the northern sky. In less than 10 minutes, the northern sky was cloudy down to the zenith. Anyway. Nikon D3100, ISO 1600, 30 "+ Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6@10mm, f4

Images: 2 pcs

Starry sky image

17.10.2015 at 20.55 - 21.30 - Kuhmo (III)
Jesse Alatalo

I was shooting streaks on Saturday night and fortunately the northern lights belt also happened in the field of photography. The reposet was dim, but the stack of 65 images nicely brings them out brighter. There were more pictures to be collected, but the memory card disagreed. A thin cloud of gauze came a little to blur the image for about the last 20 exposures.

Comments: 2 pcs

Starscape image

12.9.2015 at 23.00 - Kuhmo (III)
Jesse Alatalo

Last weekend, I tested a new wide-angle lens for orbit photography about 20 miles from light pollution. The image consists of nine 45-second exposures. I stacked the images with a deepsky stacker and dug out the colors in the Lightroom. The Milky Way also stood out clearly with the naked eye. More nights like that, please.

Starscape image

22.8.2015 at 00.25 - Kuhmo (III)
Jesse Alatalo

My brother and I went to Kuhmo on a creek with cameras, the purpose was to photograph the Milky Way. The water had dropped to a suitably low level and after aiming the camera I decided to wade into the rocks that came out to point to the sky with a headlamp. The bats flew from the spotlight of the lamp and throughout the shooting and sausage frying trip, the deer roared on the opposite shore of the lake.

Comments: 3 pcs

Quiet aurora band

16.8.2015 at 01.45 - Kuhmo (II)
Jesse Alatalo

The Facebook group of northern firefighters received information during the day. that activity would be in the evening. In the evening I decided to go and check the situation and in addition to the northern lights, the pictures were also captured by illuminating night clouds. Impressive sight.

Images: 2 pcs

Bright night shining clouds

16.8.2015 at 01.30 - 01.50 - Kuhmo (IV)
Jesse Alatalo

I went to photograph the northern lights, but on the same trip the sky also saw illuminating night clouds to the north and northwest. The clouds were very bright.

Dim night shining clouds

8.8.2015 at 00.25 - Sotkamo (II)
Jesse Alatalo

I checked the situation for illuminated night clouds in Sotkamo and luckily they showed up. It's a pity the camera wasn't included, but I got some kind of flicker on the phone. This was the first night cloud observation ever for me and let the moon also catch up. If only I had a camera next time.

Active aurora band

21.3.2015 at 23.30 - Kuhmo (III)
Jesse Alatalo

At the end of the star virus session, I noticed a dim but active northern lights belt in the low northern sky. While the sight was handsome, it just didn’t tone up March 17-18. after the night. The camera battery flashed red, but I got one image that I thought was successful before the camera told me to take the battery to charge.

Starscape image

21.3.2015 at 22.15 - 23.00 - Kuhmo (III)
Jesse Alatalo

When I didn’t own a tracking stand or any particularly wide-angle optics for decent landscape constellations, I photographed stellar streaks while exploring the starry sky with binoculars. The image has 93x30s of exposure bundled with StarStax, and no calibration images have been subtracted from the images.

Comments: 2 pcs

Aurora rays

17.3.2015 at 22.00 - Joensuu (II)
Jesse Alatalo

I heard a little bit of a good Northern Lights show promising today. I walked to Vehkalahti with the camera and tripod and there awaited the dim repos, from which I raped pictures for an hour. The return journey began when the camera battery began to show signs of clotting, as did the northern lights. Just when I was almost there I saw something bright in the right corner of my eye and I turned around: quite insanely handsome northern lights, wavy movement and a variety of colors were seen with the naked eye despite the street lamps. No matter when the camera got stuck in the backpack and trip...

Images: 4 pcs

Diffuse glow

4.1.2015 at 19.10 - 19.25 - Kuhmo (I)
Jesse Alatalo

I missed the most handsome show before 7pm and the clouds started to roll over just after half past eight. If only it were clearer from this. However, the moon's roar could stay in the cloud.

Half-sky auroras

24.12.2014 at 22.30 - Kuhmo (IV)
Jesse Alatalo

I watched the AurorasNow website and the Oulunjärvi height bar shouted red. I went out with the camera and tripod and had no need but to look at the sky and there they warped. The prettiest I've seen through this. Here are a couple of pictures where the focus happened and the motion detection lights didn't ruin the picture.

Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 3 pcs

Starscape image

24.12.2014 at 22.20 - 22.30 - Kuhmo (V)
Jesse Alatalo

Barn and orion. Yes it is worth visiting the countryside. Photo taken from the backyard. In addition to the northern lights, Orion was described for the first time ever. The frost banged in it with 25-degree scatter and the sky was almost cloudless despite the forecast.

Light pillars

23.12.2014 at 19.50 - 20.05 - Kuhmo (II)
Jesse Alatalo

Artificial light poles caused by yard lights in a small village school.

Quiet aurora band

27.10.2014 at 21.54 - 22.10 - Sotkamo (II)
Jesse Alatalo

I happened to blink at the northern sky in the hope of the northern lights, and a calm belt of northern lights grabbed the camera.

Starscape image

17.10.2014 at 21.15 - 21.45 - Kuhmo (IV)
Jesse Alatalo

For the first time ever describing the orbit, and let's also photograph M31, the androme galaxy in the lower right corner.

Search result contains observations from time period 1.1.2000 klo 00.00 - 2.4.2023 klo 5.13.