What is This Strange Parachute-Like Object Pupping Out of These Northern Lights?
When solar activity is on the rise, then, there are more opportunities for photographers
to catch a glimpse of northern lights.
This also means that more mysteries are presenting themselves to be explored.
In 2010, Per-Arne Mikalsen took advantage of one of these opportunities and
photographed an aurora over Andenes, Norway.
One of the photos taken showed an unidentifiable, green parachute-like object:
Unexplained sky phenomenon: what is this strange parachute near the aurora?.
According to the photographer, this is not a lens flare or spot on the lens.
As for the mysterious green object, according to a correspondence from lead scientist
at the Tromso Geophysical Observatory, Truls Lynne Hansen:
" Usually such aberrations appear when there is a small and intense source of light in
the field of view, or at least so close that the light from it hits the lens."
That seems not to be the case here.
" Additionally, the color of the " phenomenon " is the same as the color in the aurora
the auroral green line from atomic oxygen; so the " phenomenon " is either a genuine
auroral feature or a reflection of auroral light somewhere in space. "
Regards.
When solar activity is on the rise, then, there are more opportunities for photographers
to catch a glimpse of northern lights.
This also means that more mysteries are presenting themselves to be explored.
In 2010, Per-Arne Mikalsen took advantage of one of these opportunities and
photographed an aurora over Andenes, Norway.
One of the photos taken showed an unidentifiable, green parachute-like object:
Unexplained sky phenomenon: what is this strange parachute near the aurora?.
According to the photographer, this is not a lens flare or spot on the lens.
As for the mysterious green object, according to a correspondence from lead scientist
at the Tromso Geophysical Observatory, Truls Lynne Hansen:
" Usually such aberrations appear when there is a small and intense source of light in
the field of view, or at least so close that the light from it hits the lens."
That seems not to be the case here.
" Additionally, the color of the " phenomenon " is the same as the color in the aurora
the auroral green line from atomic oxygen; so the " phenomenon " is either a genuine
auroral feature or a reflection of auroral light somewhere in space. "
Regards.