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Credit & Copyright: Sigurdur William Brynjarsson;
Annotation Advice: SÔvar Helgi Bragason
Explanation:
You don't always see a scene this beautiful when you hike to an ancient volcano --
you have to be lucky.
When the astrophotographer realized that
aurora were visible two-weeks
ago,
he made a night-time run for the top of the caldera to see if he could capture them
also reflected in the central lake.
When he arrived, he found that ... the northern lights were even brighter and more
impressive than before!
And
his
image of them is the
featured 13-frame panoramic mosaic.
The crater lake in the center
is called
Kerid (Icelandic: KeriÏ)
and is about 3,000 years old.
The aurora overhead shows impressive
colors
and
banding, with the red colors occurring higher in the
Earth's atmosphere than the
green.
The background sky is filled with icons of the northern night including
Polaris, the
Pleiades star cluster,
and the stars that compose the handle of the
Big Dipper.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: aurora borealis
Publications with words: aurora borealis
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