Copyright:
Hallgrimur P. Helgason;
Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
原文:
All of the other aurora watchers had gone home. By 3:30 am in Iceland, on a quiet night last September, much of that night’s auroras had died down. Suddenly though, a new burst of particles streamed down from space, lighting up the Earth’s atmosphere once again. This time, unexpectedly, pareidoliacally, they created an amazing shape reminiscent of a giant phoenix. With camera equipment at the ready, two quick sky images were taken, followed immediately by a third of the land. The mountain in the background is Helgafell, while the small foreground river is called Kald�, both located about 30 kilometers north of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik. Seasoned skywatchers will note that just above the mountain, toward the left, is the constellation of Orion, while the Pleiades star cluster is also visible just above the frame center. The new aurora lasted only a minute and would be gone forever — possibly dismissed as an embellished aberration — were it not captured in the featured, digitally-composed, image mosaic.
中文翻譯:
在冰島的一個寧靜夜晚，去年九月份的凌晨3:30，所有的極光觀賞者都已經回了家。那晚的極光已經逐漸平息，但突然又一陣新的粒子從太空湧現，重新點亮了地球的氛圍。這次，意想不到地，它們形成了一種令人驚嘆的形狀，宛如一隻巨大的鳳凰。攝影器材隨手可得，迅速拍下了兩張天空的照片，隨之而來的是一張大地的照片。背景中的山是希爾加費爾（Helgafell），而前景的小河則稱為卡爾達（Kaldá），兩者都位於冰島首都雷克雅維克（Reykjavik）以北約30公里的地方。資深的星空觀察者會注意到，在山的上方，左側位置是獵戶座（Orion），而昴宿星團（Pleiades）也在畫面的中央稍上方可見。這場新的極光只持續了一分鐘，若不是在特色的數字合成圖像拼接中捕捉到，將會被認為是裝飾誇張的異象，並永久消失。
#極光 #冰島 #雷克雅維克 #希爾加費爾 #卡爾達 #鳳凰 #獵戶座 #昴宿星團 #宇宙之美 #自然奇觀 #攝影藝術 #夜空奇景
來源:NASA每日圖片
