Northern Lights Color ...

• Main Author: Johnson, Jason
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Astrophotography; Canada; Cassidy; Yellowknife; aurora borealis; Northern lights; southern lights
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10356863; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10356863

Winner in the 2023 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Still images with smartphones-mobile devices : Northern Lights-Color, by Jason Johnson This photograph is one of six winners in the category Still images taken exclusively with smartphones/mobile devices. It captures the ethereal beauty of the Northern Lights at Cassidy Point, Yellowknife, NT, Canada on 24 March 2023, at temperatures well below freezing (–29°C). The mesmerising dance of the Aurora Borealis (Australis), commonly known as the Northern (Southern) Lights, paints the night sky in striking hues. The aurora is a natural phenomenon caused by charged particles from the Sun interacting with Earth’s atmosphere, and being redirected by Earth’s magnetic field towards the north and south polar regions. The charged particles excite atoms and molecules in the atmosphere, resulting in a light display that varies in colour and form. The different colours of an aurora are determined by the gases (atoms and molecules) in Earth's atmosphere, the ...