Northern Lights - Teepees ...

• Main Author: Vuong, Oanh
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Astrophotography; Canada; Cassidy; Yellowknife; aurora borealis; Northern lights
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10359618; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10359618

Honorable mention in the 2023 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Still images with smartphones-mobile devices: Northern Lights - Teepees, by Oanh Vuong. Taken at Cassidy Point, Yellowknife, Canada, on 24 March 2023, this stunning display captured the ethereal Northern Lights painting the night sky. It receives an honourable mention in the category of Still images taken exclusively with smartphones/mobile devices. The biting cold of -20°F (-29°C) set the stage for the vibrant hues of the Aurora Borealis, a celestial ballet created by collisions between charged solar particles and the Earth's atmosphere. The Earth’s magnetic field directs the charged particles towards the polar regions, where they interact with the various atoms and molecules in the atmosphere. This natural phenomenon transforms the sky into a canvas of radiant greens, pinks, and purples, casting a mesmerising glow above. The different colours of an aurora are determined by the gases in Earth’s atmosphere, the altitude where the aurora ...