Sometimes, just sometimes, you suddenly see something that looks like an angel floating along the sky
The Aurora or Northern Lights.
The northern lights are a mysterious, artistic and sensational natural phenomenon. It can sometimes be seen well with the naked eye and sometimes not at all. There are northern lights shows where purple and pink colours can also be seen and sometimes you see mainly bright green.
It is often a light glow or consists of moving arcs, beams or curtains of light; very rarely it is even flaming. Sometimes on the northern horizon there is an arc from which light rays shoot up like searchlights. From our sun, electrically charged particles are continuously hurled into space, called the solar wind. This happens at an average speed of 400km/sec, but can vary between 250 and 2,500km/sec. A small part of these particles will reach our earth after a journey of about 150 million kilometres.
Hey! Welcome to my shop at Werken aan de Muur . Due to my travels in Europe, I sometimes have the opportunity to create beautiful images. Dedigital Photography brings more creative possibilities such as panorama photography and increasing the dynamic range of a photo. I use the so-called Digital.. Read more…