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APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09)
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:10 am
by APOD Robot
An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way Topping
Explanation: This sky looked delicious.
Double auroral ovals were captured above the town lights of
Östersund,
Sweden, last week.
Pictured above, the green ovals occurred lower to the ground than
violet aurora rays above, making the whole display look a bit like a
cupcake. To top it off, far in the distance, the
central band or our
Milky Way Galaxy slants down from the upper left. The auroras were caused by our Sun ejecting
plasma clouds into the Solar System just a few days before, ionized particles that
subsequently impacted the
magnetosphere of the Earth. Aurora
displays may continue this week as an
active sunspot group rotated into view just a few days ago.
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Re: APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:13 am
by Beyond
Very watchable, but not very edible. Hey, 50% isn't bad at all.
Re: APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:52 pm
by Ron-Astro Pharmacist
Low calorie but highly energizing. Maybe we could call it an "Up-cake?" Too bad it would be "curtain" death to those who venture into the kitchen to grab a bite. (Sorry - I find all puns hard to resist)
Nice evening snack from Göran and I love the green reflection off of the water. Overall the image provides a banquet of "calming" and a "wealth" of tranquility. Thank you for your efforts.
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/04/03/ ... -hue-mean/
Re: APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:30 pm
by hlwelborn
Magnificent!
Re: APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:38 pm
by rstevenson
Purty! 'Minds me o' a time I spen' up 'n the Yukon, back, oh, musta bin the 80s, sumtime. Why, you cud hear them lights a whippin' 'n a snappin' up there in the sky, like they wuz hangin' on a clothesline durin' a hurry cane! Good times had by all 'neath the midnight Sun.
Rob
Re: APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:51 pm
by orin stepanek
I like the picture fine; but I can't use it as a wallpaper because of its shape! (won't fit my screen) I can't crop it; I'd have to cut too much off! I could just stretch it, but it would be to skewed! I'll just have to pass!
Re: APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:11 pm
by LocalColor
Lovely photo!
Re: APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 1:04 am
by Boomer12k
WOW!!!! That is the one of the most AWESOME AURORA EVER!!!!
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Re: APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:09 am
by ta152h0
what a lucky photo session !
Re: APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 10:50 am
by DavidLeodis
It's a great photo
. In its information in the blog in Goran's website it states "It shows a double auroral oval over the city lights of Östersund and the village of Ås". The name of the village intrigued me, being such a very short name. In information that I found in Wikipedia it states "Ås (from Old Norse áss 'ridge') is a locality situated in Krokom Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden with 1,218 inhabitants in 2010". I have not checked but such short names may be uncommon.
Mmmmm I fancy a cupcake now. Chocolate preferably.
Re: APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 5:50 am
by astrofotografen.se
Thanks for all you comments.
DavidLeodis wrote:It's a great photo
. In its information in the blog in Goran's website it states "It shows a double auroral oval over the city lights of Östersund and the village of Ås". The name of the village intrigued me, being such a very short name. In information that I found in Wikipedia it states "Ås (from Old Norse áss 'ridge') is a locality situated in Krokom Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden with 1,218 inhabitants in 2010". I have not checked but such short names may be uncommon.
Mmmmm I fancy a cupcake now. Chocolate preferably.
It's correct, Ås (Aas) is a ridge in Swedish, but such short village names are quite common in Sweden. Not far from where I live we have a village called Ö (
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96,_%C3%85nge_kommun), that's short
Re: APOD: An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way... (2014 Sep 09
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 6:01 am
by Ann
astrofotografen.se wrote:Thanks for all you comments.
DavidLeodis wrote:It's a great photo
. In its information in the blog in Goran's website it states "It shows a double auroral oval over the city lights of Östersund and the village of Ås". The name of the village intrigued me, being such a very short name. In information that I found in Wikipedia it states "Ås (from Old Norse áss 'ridge') is a locality situated in Krokom Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden with 1,218 inhabitants in 2010". I have not checked but such short names may be uncommon.
Mmmmm I fancy a cupcake now. Chocolate preferably.
It's correct, Ås (Aas) is a ridge in Swedish, but such short village names are quite common in Sweden. Not far from where I live we have a village called Ö (
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96,_%C3%85nge_kommun), that's short
It's a good thing Göran doesn't live on an island. The word "island" in Swedish is "ö". No joke.
Ingmar Bergman, the rather famous Swedish film director, used to spend his summers on Fårö. The name (probably) means Sheep-island.
Ann