Fire in the skies

Comments and critique are very welcome! Seeing this spectacle, I amreminded of the song 'How Great Thou Art' by Carl G. Boberg...

Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder, Consider all the worlds ThyHands have made;

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout theuniverse displayed.

Chorus:Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art, Howgreat Thou art.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art, Howgreat Thou art!

And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing; Sent Him to die, Iscarce can take it in;

That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing, He bled and died to takeaway my sin.

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation, And take me home,what joy shall fill my heart.

Then I shall bow, in humble adoration, And then proclaim: "My God, howgreat Thou art!"

/daniel

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Byrn, I couldn't tell you what it is... Most of my aurora photos have it.

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I now know what the concentric circles are... they are caused because I had a filter on my lens. Apparantly the properties of auroras are such that the filters interfere and cause the pebble effect.

/daniel

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Weird - I got the same 'pebble' effect in my aurora shots (D70). All I have on my camera is a UV filter to protect the lens - that must have been the culprit.

I reduced the speed on my shots to get more definition and less blur. I like the painterly effect you got here, though.

Thanks Derek, yes even a UV filter will do it!

/daniel

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It is the wavelenths of the Aurora reflecting between your filter and your lens causing something called "Newton's rings." The rays 'bounce' between the flat filter and the contoured front element creating this distortion.

See here for more details.

/daniel

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I guess it can't have been that bad of a picture...
http://www.geocities.com/haydukphoto/images/aurorasm.jpg

/daniel

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Scott, I did!

/daniel

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