Aurora Borealis activity photographed at Tomnaverie Recumbent Stone Circle at
Tarland, on Royal Deeside and these photographs are scans from Provia 400asa 35mm
slide film, processed at 1600asa. A further selection of digital
photographs will be added in another gallery.
They were taken using a Nikon FG20 and mainly a Sigma 15mm f2.8 Semi Fish eye
lens for exposures of around 20 seconds using a locking cable release.
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21.59hrs UT(GMT) Tomnaverie Stone Circle and first choice after the teaching duties were over and some digital photos already in the can |
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An upright captures the northerly arm of the Corona sitting over the recumbent and easter flanker of the Bronze Age monument |
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22.05hrs and this weird shaped Corona canopy like some huge celestial jellyfish about the envelope the Stone Circle |
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Like the cover of some Sci Fi book this canopy spreads over the South West skyline towards Lochnagar and Royal Deeside |
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22.32hrs and after a digital photo session the full scope of the 15mm Sigma captures the developing Corona, here sighted over the West flanker |
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22.35 and repositioning to make use of the main recumbent and both flankers of this 4000year old burial site in Aberdeenshire |
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Thoughts of ceremonial cremations are the feel of these rays of orange giving an apposite backdrop to this reminder of our very ancient "Scottish" ancestors |
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23.01hrs and the zenith has grown and here is captured towards Orion and the SE from the side of the large West flanker |
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Making use of the flanker to set off the dominating zenith or centre of the Aurora Borealis Corona or crown shape as it builds to the South |
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23.03hrs and the zenith is now filling all the overhead night sky |
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23.11hrs and the Corona has now extended over all horizons and this photograph is to the West capturing the hill of Morven and lights of Tarland |
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23.19hrs and the stone circle again sets off the full Corona, from its zenith to the North Easterly skyline |
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Slightly less squint the silhouette of the Tomnaverie Circle on the top of its small hill gives a perfect setting for a heavely light show that its Bronze Age builders probably marvelled at as well |
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Nearing the end of the main display, this Northerly viewpoint over towards the Slack of Tillylodge shows rays in the more usual Aurora settings for North East Scotland |
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23.35hrsUT and near the end of the Tomnaverie visit but a few strong rays flare off towards the North, with nothing by now overhead or to the south |
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