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Quiet aurora arc

9.12.2016 at 20.50 - Lempäälä (II)
Mikko Hyssy

The aurora borealis and the weather forecast promised relatively good conditions for the evening, so it was time to go hunting after a long time, and there was no need to come back empty-handed. Quite nice northern lights after a long time, although the light pollution in the northern sky was a bit disturbing. #diffuusi #diffuusi

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Active aurora band

5.9.2016 at 22.55 - Lempäälä (III)
Mikko Hyssy

Originally, I had to illuminate the Milky Way on a darkening autumn bridge when northern lights appeared in the northwest sky (to the north you can't see that observation point very well). It was a bit annoying that we didn't go to a better place to watch the northern lights.

Other special clouds

24.8.2016 at 20.30 - Vesilahti (III)
Mikko Hyssy

There was time on a fishing trip to wander a little into the sky and this caught my attention. Could it be a hole cloud? Not visible in the picture, but a little further afield was also seen as the departure of a scheduled plane, although not quite at this cloud.

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Half-sky auroras

24.8.2016 at 00.45 - Lempäälä (IV)
Mikko Hyssy

The first alarm of the autumn popped into the e-mail and I looked on the phone from the weather cameras of Tampere Ursa what could be promised .. Almost the whole sky is green! For a while, those wives and my wife became admired, until I decided to try to capture something on camera as well, but the most active phase was badly already fading away at that point.

Auroras seen through breaks in the clouds

3.11.2015 at 21.00 - 22.30 - Lempäälä (II)
Mikko Hyssy

The forecasts for the northern lights were pretty good for this night - unfortunately, the forecasts for the clouds were also true. The dim and rather static arc was visible as soon as I arrived at my observation site at 9 p.m.

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Half-sky auroras

7.10.2015 at 20.45 - 23.50 - Lempäälä (IV)
Mikko Hyssy

Mute night, you can't really say otherwise. The brightest northern lights I have been able to witness, and when they were admired in a pitch-dark observation site, it was quiet.

Images: 8 pcs • Comments: 5 pcs

Active aurora band

6.10.2015 at 21.45 - 23.50 - Vesilahti (III)
Mikko Hyssy

There was a fairly high gauze / arch in the northern sky, so I packed my stuff and went to a dark field on duty at 9:45 p.m. We had to wait there for a long time, and really nothing seemed to change, but shortly after 11 pm (when I was already packing things away as the frost bit my toes) it tore, and this autumn’s finest northern lights show at these latitudes was obtained! The screen lasted about 40min and by midnight I had calmed down enough to get home to warm up.

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Quiet aurora band

5.10.2015 at 21.45 - 22.15 - Lempäälä (II)
Mikko Hyssy

I went to my observation site in the early evening to see that nothing was visible in the northern sky and went on to describe quite a few other things, until at 9:45 pm I noticed that the north was very promising. The warping lasted only a few minutes, after which a distant arch / gauze was visible, which also completely faded away by eleven o'clock.

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Diffuse glow

3.10.2015 at 22.00 - 22.45 - Vesilahti (I)
Mikko Hyssy

I waited for the weak gauze to activate before the moon and fog rose, but time remained dilute.

Total lunar eclipse

28.9.2015 at 05.15 - Lempäälä (IV)
Mikko Hyssy

I woke up through the night to check on a cloudy situation that was at least depressing until dawn, but just before the phase of complete eclipse, the sky opened from around the moon for less than half an hour. Majestic sight! This way, it is easy to wise afterwards, that perhaps it would have been worthwhile to tune that tracking foot in good time, and not only in the morning in a dream-like hurry, then the quality of the picture could have been something else, but something now without monitoring. wise about the damage, the new company will definitely again in 2033 :)

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Quiet aurora band

20.9.2015 at 21.20 - 22.45 - Lempäälä (II)
Mikko Hyssy

Throughout the day, the internet gauges gave such readings that one had to leave the scene at a good time to wear repos, and a clear gauze appeared as soon as it was dark enough. After about an hour of waiting, quite nice flares came into the sky for a moment before pulling the camera so foggy that the shooting was no longer really successful. Edit: I was at the scene right after sunset, the aurora borealis appeared at about 9:30 p.m., when it got dark enough and became quite bright and active at about 10:10 p.m., and was clearly visible to the naked eye for at least half an hour. I put the st...

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Starscape image

7.9.2015 at 23.00 - Lempäälä (IV)
Mikko Hyssy

I was going in to sleep, when I looked at yet Tampere auroral camera, the skyline of greener promising, so I decided to go to the autumn Milky Way photos in advance to selected kuvauspaikalleni in the hope that reposetkin on yltyisivät and that's what it was that they then brightened "tarnish" the good Milky Way The weather. :) Before they brightened, however, the autumn landscape star image was taken.

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Auroras seen through breaks in the clouds

7.9.2015 at 21.39 - 23.06 - Lempäälä (II)
Mikko Hyssy

I watched from the northern lights camera that the horizon reflected promisingly, so I packed my stuff and went to describe the Milky Way in the field and wait to see if the repo ride would reach it - quite spectacular they grew from it around 23:00 and onwards. Edit: I dug and processed the other night's pictures in the hope of the proton arc and something along its lines had been left on my own cell - the maintenance will probably remove the spot if it seems that it doesn't meet the criteria. Figure 1 northwest at 9:39 pm, Figure 2 north at 9:56 pm, Figure 3 north at 10:02 pm, Figure...

Images: 7 pcs

One halo form

4.9.2015 at 20.30 - Lempäälä (I)
Mikko Hyssy

The sky seemed to have to go out with the camera and quite a good pillar of sunshine was visible there.

Quiet aurora band

28.8.2015 at 23.30 - Lempäälä (II)
Mikko Hyssy

I accidentally jumped at the camera at home when a message came from a friend that the sky was green there, so quickly the stuff in the stump and in the yard - the shooting locations were thought out ready, so it didn't take many minutes to get to them. Still had to be on the field after a hint of the most active phase, but something still made a save. Yes it was nice again after the summer break.

Images: 4 pcs

Clearly visible night shining clouds

18.7.2015 at 00.30 - 03.00 - Lempäälä (III)
Mikko Hyssy

After the sauna, I watched that time was clearly visible in the sky at half past one and I left the camera to sing the timelapse for the night. Unfortunately, the back of the lake opens onto the axis south-west, so it didn't get completely in the direction of the clouds, but it still came to my own taste. https://youtu.be/K7mPUfk5pds

One halo form

17.5.2015 at 10.00 - Lempäälä (I)
Mikko Hyssy

In honor of the Day of Remembrance of the Fallen, the flag received the right halo. :)

Comments: 3 pcs

All-sky aurora

17.3.2015 at 22.00 - Lempäälä (V)
Mikko Hyssy

As has probably been shown by dozens of other observations - an incredible northern lights spectacle in the south. The closest benchmark for the feeling is probably the halo show seen in May 2014, although for myself the northern lights of the evening are perhaps the most pulsating show of the sky ever, when such clear northern lights have never been proven before. Hopefully someday you can still prove the same. You need to put more pictures when you get the whole lot processed.

Images: 4 pcs

Binocular comet Lovejoy

11.3.2015 at 22.00 - Lempäälä (II)
Mikko Hyssy

A few weeks ago, I bought my first tracking stand (EQ3-2), which I finally got to test for a cloudless sky - there have been little difficulties with that learning (polar aiming, lens focusing, etc.), but the damage is wise and little by little you begin to understand it. Yes, this is still a nice hobby! Canon 600D, 250mm, f6.3, ISO3200 / 6400, 14x30s image stack without darks / flats, etc. The use of which should be learned at some point.

Comments: 6 pcs

Zodiacal light

16.2.2015 at 20.00 - Lempäälä (I)
Mikko Hyssy

It was a fitting moment just after dark, so I tried to get the zodiac light recorded - visually this was not visible, or I just couldn't look, but something was revealed in the Lightroom.

Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 3 pcs

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