Truly a fascinating phenomenon. Nature never ceases to astound me.
I wonder how accurately the camera captures it.
Such a cool phenomena. I'd like to see that with my own eyes someday, too bad that every place you can actually see that in is blisteringly cold
[QUOTE=hrak;46643235]I wonder how accurately the camera captures it.[/QUOTE]
With little to no light pollution, an aurora can look pretty much exactly like that.
If I had to pick three things that actually exist in the real world that otherwise seems too fantastical to exist outside of a story, the auroras are definitely on there.
I saw aurora borealis in Iceland when I went there last Christmas.
It's spectular stuff.
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[QUOTE=hrak;46643235]I wonder how accurately the camera captures it.[/QUOTE]
You see more on the camera than you do in real life.
The aurora itself is caused by radiation emitted from the sun, as it hits the earth magnetic field, it slows down some of the waves and that's what causes the colours.
Only a fraction of the EM radiation reaches the 'visible light' band of the Electro magnetic spectrum, the rest of it reaches infrared and other such lower frequency waves.
Cameras pick up certain frequencies of infrared radiation, for example, pointing a TV remote at a camera and pressing a button will make the diode at the end of the remote flash due to the release of infrared radiation from the remote. It's the same with auroras, you will only see some of the radiation with the naked eye, but through a camera, you will see more.
This is the first time I've ever seen a real time video of an auroa borealis.
I can't understand why every documentary choose to use timelapses when filming auroras, this video beats them all by far.
It's so fucking pretty.
[QUOTE=General J;46643432]If I had to pick three things that actually exist in the real world that otherwise seems too fantastical to exist outside of a story, the auroras are definitely on there.[/QUOTE]
what are the other two
[QUOTE=Shark Cat;46644409]what are the other two[/QUOTE]
Black holes and love.
wow auroras are loud
[QUOTE=Glitchman;46645049]wow auroras are loud[/QUOTE]
Some say 1000 years ago they captured auroras to make a new type of music: synth.
why did you post a video of windows music player's visualizer
a wizard did it
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