Red Aurora in moonlight

 My sons friend calls and tell me there is a Aurora show outside. It started with some green colors and the bow in the north. Later on the activity gets stronger. From the bow pillars starts to move and getting higher in the sky with some colors. Getting back home and looked from my backyard I witnessed one of the strongest red colors I´ve seen, dark red easily seen despite moonlight! 

Total Lunar Eclipse 2019

A very cold and clear morning for the Total Lunar Eclipse. Getting up early with my son and his friend to drive to the old churchruin. My goal was to capture the blood moon through the window of the ruin, I was not sure if this was possible but I made it after all. It was a great sight indeed.

Some more photos from Tänndalen

Stargazing and Aurora in Tänndalen

Perfect skiing and some clear beautiful nights with the starry sky and Aurora among friends.

Spring starry sky at Tänndalen

Me and my daughter Maja went out to check out the nightsky at Tänndalen Sweden. We noticed a light low in the north, faint Northern lights. And the Milkyway with Cygnus also low in the north, a beautiful sight. I tried a close up shot of North America nebula and the Butterfly nebula with my 85mm lens and modded 600D, they moved behind treetops like playing hide and seek with me, I did a single shot of 15s.

Orion setting

The great nebula of Orion with the Horsehead and Flamenebula around the left star in Orions belt. The view of the constellation Orion at Färnebofjärdens nationalpark was amazing. Of course I could not see the red nebulae but the great starfactory, with newborned stars inbedded in gasclouds, Orionnebula is possible to see without optics as a fuzzy dot in the sky. This is a single exposure of 15s using a 85mm lens

The green light

A common Northern lights sight where I live, a green light low in the north.

Andromedagalaxy

Kind of amazing, to see another galaxy 2,5 million lightyears away without optics! You will see it as a fuzzy oval object during clear dark nights.

New photos from last weekend with my son

My sons favourite starcluster the Plejades M45 (Seven Sisters). This beautiful open starcluster is easily visible without optics, some might think it is the little Dipper because of the shape. This amazing cluster of stars lies only 440 ly away in the constellation of Taurus. These young stars (only 100million years old) will only stay together for about 250million years and then seperate and become individual stars in our galaxy. You can see blue instellar clouds around the stars in the photo. So it is a beautiful group of young stars that we can enjoy - so get out and do it Smiley smile! Canon 6D and 85mm lens.

Is it not amazing, to be able to see another galaxy without Optics! The galaxy of Andromeda M31 is a beautiful spiralgalaxy "only" 2,5 million ly away. If you know where to look you can see it without Optics At a dark location. Amazing, another Island of stars, probably another place with life and maybe someone is looking At our galaxy from there At the same way. If you look closely you can even see the satellite galaxy below it. Now, you don't see the galaxy like in this photo, the sensor in the camera capture much more, but you will see it as a fuzzy dim oval object in the sky. Photo taken with 85mm lens and Canon 6D.

Airglow and milkyway shots..

Zodiacal light and Starry Sky

Clear skies Saturday night so me and my son went out in the nationalpark of Färnebofjärden. We did a campfire and waited for the darkness to arrive. On the way we enjoyed a crescent moon with earthshine, very nice. Before astronomical twillight we noticed the nice light of the zodiacal light read more in the west, just above planet Venus and towards the open cluster M45.
And as ususal the photos get autocorrected very bad at the blogg!

Aurora by the eastcoast

Another trip, this time to the eastcaost north of Norrtälje. We hoped for some Aurora and we got some, not the strongest but a nice display. My parents joined me and enjoyed the Aurora with the starry sky and the Andromedagalaxy, the most distance object you can see without optics during a dark and clear night, 2,5 million lightyears away.