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Deme
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Thanks! Yes, it is a photo. The moth was chilling on a window after sunset. The blue dots are out of focus apron lights.
They sure don't tend to do that, but there are still mundane explanations for this. An unintentional collision between the satellite and another object being one of them.
"I find it hard to believe they would use such a big satellite as an ASAT target," McDowell said.
Not because of Kessler syndrome, just your run of the mill space debris reentering the atmosphere and increasing the amounts of certain metals up there that contribute to ozone depletion. In other words, that may well happen even if we're lucky and avoid Kessler syndrome.
Posio, southern Lapland, Finland
Posio, southern Lapland, Finland
This one turned out a bit more blurry, but the aurora itself is too good not to post here.
These guys danced accross the sky, reaching quite far into the southern sky as well. Picture taken on 4.4.. I'm just mad that while I had hauled my tripod with me, I had left the camera mount back home :))). I stuck a bench into the snow and steadied my hand against that. A couple of these turned out surprisingly well.
Almost forgot to get back to you about that last part: Yes it did, but this wasn't that.
Here's a picture I took when the smoke was making a sunset unusually red:
This was a telephoto at the horizon at around midnight. The sun was only a bit above the horizon, so the lighting was similar to a sunset/sunrise.
Here's another picture of that same midnight, looking towards the sun.
Nah winters are beautiful up north. Sometimes also in the south, but only rarely around the southern coast.
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Taken last summer from Riisitunturi, Posio, Finland.
Picture taken in December 2022, Helsinki.
Fluctus is a cloud formation that requires quite specific circumstances to occur. The physical phenomenon itself (Kelvin-Helmholtz instability) is quite common, occuring at the border of two layers of fluids moving in different directions and/or speeds. The most common instance would be the waves you see on water.
But to be visible in a cloud like this, there not only needs to be a cloud at that same place, but it has to also occur perpendicularly to the observer so you can see it clearly from the side like this. Because of these three factors rarely happening all at once, as well as the short lifespan of the formation (the waves usually crash within minutes), it is widely considered a rarity.
Safe to say, I was very stoked when I saw one lining up for this shot.
It was pretty funny seeing these two goofing off and then hearing the final boarding call for that particular flight asking the last passenger to come to the gate posthaste.
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Thanks! Time really is the most important ingredient. Look at enough sunsets and sunrises with an adequate camera on hand, and every now and then a great scene will come up. After that it's just point and shoot.