Kiruna Ambassador Of The Year 2020 - Lighthunter in subarctic 🇸🇪 - squirrels - aurora - life
Kiruna, Sweden
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I never have nor will do NFT's, I did this instead, as a sort of protest when it was kicking off.
You can download my favorite images, you can print them and hang them on your wall. drive.google.com/drive/folde…
And you can pay whatever you feel it's worth💚: buymeacoffee.com/angrytheinc…
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This is how the aurora moves.
Filmed in real-time, overhead one winter night.
Not sped up, not slowed down.
What you see is what my eyes saw. 😍
I bet many of you, after this weekend, have a newfound understanding of why we stay out all night in -35°C!
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When you're driving down the road in the middle of nowhere and this happens, you stop the damn car!
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Polar night officially begins today. The sun will now remain below the horizon 24/7 for a few weeks.
This does not mean total darkness, it means the most gorgeous hours long sunless sunrise/sunsets. Unreal pinks and blues.
But also darkness. A lot of darkness..
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Few pics from this morning's walk.
I go down that street daily and am always amazed by how beautiful it is. 😍
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I'll just leave this here and go to bed now. :)
The Milky Way and aurora plus a few satellites. I've never seen the Milky Way so brilliantly bright before! 😍
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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, light set off on an epic journey. Travelling through the vastness of space for 2,5 million years before eventually, one dark starry night, colliding with your eyes.
Letting you see an image of what it was all that time ago.
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Another shot of last night's light pillars. Click to see full width.
It really is spectacular being in the middle of something like this. You almost expect to be beamed up.
Light pillars happen when light from streetlights reflect on tiny ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
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The first panorama I ever shot. I chose this arctic nightscape as my scene because why on earth wouldn't I!?
The Milky Way, Andromeda Galaxy, Venus, airglow, Pleiades, Zodiacal light (sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust), aurora and an iridium flare. :)
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It's been amazing seeing all the posts from last night. So many people seeing the aurora for the first time, apart but still together. It's heartwarming and once again space twitter has shown it's the place to be. ❤️ What was your experience like?
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The most insane light pillars I've seen in a long time!
Shot an hour ago.
Felt like being in the middle of an alien invasion. 😍
These are caused by light from streetlights etc. reflecting on tiny ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. The moon on the right.
@ProfBrianCox
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This is probably my favorite shot of 2017. :) The Milky Way stretching across the sky, Venus shining bright, the Andromeda galaxy, Pleiades, weak aurora, airglow and the snowy frozen river. ❤ @VirtualAstro @SPACEdotcom @ProfBrianCox
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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, light set off on an epic journey. Travelling through the vastness of space for 2.5 million years before eventually, one dark starry night, colliding with your eyes. Letting you see an image of what it was all that time ago.
Find Andromeda
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One of those crazy winter nights behind my house. 💚 The map says Kiruna but I'm sure I live in Narnia!
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3y ago I shot my first ever panorama. Was over the moon! Spectacularly beautiful night.
The Milky Way, Venus, the zodiacal light (sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust), Andromeda Galaxy, weak aurora, airglow, the Pleiades, an iridium flare.
Have to get out there again soon😍
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If I made a type of "follow along" video the next time I go out aurora hunting, would that be of interest to anyone?
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Photography has been my therapy for many years now. The pictures don't always turn out perfect but that's rarely the point, it's all about the joy of making them. 💚
#WorldPhotographyDay2019
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I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas!
Here in Sweden we celebrate today, on Christmas Eve. It is a beautiful snowy morning here in Kiruna.
(Yes I decorated and carried that tree up the snow hill for this photo.)
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Polar night is here. The sun won't rise until January.
That's it, that's the tweet.
Photo not from tonight.
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This geomagnetic storm did not disappoint tonight! 😍
Amazing aurora dancing over Kiruna, so incredibly bright!
(This one needs to be clicked up)
@ProfBrianCox
@VirtualAstro
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What a gorgeous day!
Everywhere you looked today there were people out walking and skiing. It's amazing how those first rays of sunshine after polar night give us so much energy.
Kiruna was really showing off today!
Walking in a winter wonderland. ❄️
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I grabbed my camera and went for a walk in my Narnia forest...
And I found them!!! I finally found them! 😍 For 2 whole minutes we stood like this looking into each others eyes.
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Rest in peace my beautiful boy. ❤️
The love of my life, I don't know how to live without you.
Run and play with Nisse ♥️ it won't hurt anymore.
I love you more than life itself.
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When you literally have the greatest show on earth on your doorstep. 😍
One night in my backyard, filmed in real time so this is not sped up. This is how the aurora moves when it's active.
When directly overhead you get the magnificent corona.
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It is December so it's time to dust this one off.
Yes I did decorate and carry a Christmas tree out in the snow and up this snow hill.
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The view from my balcony right now. 💚
Can't go anywhere else because I can't leave Wil.
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Another real time video of the aurora. I shot this one in the little forest behind my house. :)
I actually prefer leaving the original audio in instead of adding music, feels more like being there.
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I've made it clear how I feel about NFT's (a huge scam,) so you won't see me "minting" my work and selling basically a receipt for thousands of dollars.
So, I'm doing something different.
I'll share download links for high res files of 2 of my favourite photos.
Thread
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Merry Christmas everyone!
Here in Sweden we celebrate tomorrow with the Christmas Dinner and gifts.
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Friends.
These are four of my all-time favorite images. I'm letting them go, frankly out of desperation.
You can download them all and make prints or use as backgrounds on your devices.
Pay whatever you think they're worth ❤️:
buymeacoffee.com/angrytheinc…
drive.google.com/drive/folde…
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Up here the aurora is something that's just there. Like clouds floating by.
People need to get to where they're going, everyday life carries on.
But when the lights explode in the sky, colors dancing wildly, even the most hardened northerners look up and let out a "wow".
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Finally! 😍
Oh how I've longed for this.
I was standing in the river for this shot, to get the reflections. Had to call it a night when my boots started letting in water. It was -1°C out.
It'll only get better from here! 🌠
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There's not always aurora dancing the night away. Sometimes the Milky Way is framed by some subtle airglow instead. 🌌
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To say that it got brighter would be an understatement. :-O
Every year since I was born I've been fortunate enough to see this.
Still...
It blows my mind every. single. time.
This is facing south!
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In honor of my birthday, here's my first aurora photo.
Jumping up and down with excitement after a lot of trial and error one cold night in Kiruna years ago.
Have a great day friends!
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Merry Christmas.
Here in Sweden we celebrate today, on Christmas eve.
I, however, am at work and will 'celebrate' after, alone at the cemetery with a hotdog. Probably.
I hope you have a wonderful day and night.
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Remembering the night when I first witnessed the mesmerizing and rare blue aurora.
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My beloved father has left us.
He passed peacefully this morning and I'm heartbroken.
After more than 50 years inseparable, he lost my mother seven months ago and in his final days he was seeing her again.
I so wish they're together now.
Rest in peace, my wonderful parents. ❤️
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Hey, a thought.
If I ever, somehow, were to publish a book with photographs and some type of text, would anyone be interested in it?
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Something happy in this time of isolation.
My dad, who turns 80 in a few months, is spending the isolation period relearning how to play the accordion. He played as a young man. ❤️
Re. posting he said "they'll just laugh at me", I said "people are way more awesome than you think"
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And then there's the corona.
The most beautiful light show you'll ever see. 😍
Imagine looking straight up and the sky above you is filled with something like this.
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The sky was full of polar stratospheric clouds today. 😍
I was stuck at work but snuck out to have a look.
It's the little things...
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I can't believe we get to call this planet our home. This little pebble in the vastness of space.
So full of wonder, the only home we've ever known.
Tonight is beautiful.
Friends, I'm finding my way back.
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Short real-time video clip from last night. Massive rapid corona over Kiruna. :)
(Twitter will probably compress the hell out of it so I'll upload to YouTube tonight!)
Music - Attack of the Birds by Daniel Birch from Free Music Archive
@VirtualAstro
@ProfBrianCox
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The elusive blue aurora.
Barely visible to the eye but really comes out in photos.
To the eye it looked like a strange moving light gray haze.
Shining here with the planet Jupiter, the Beehive Cluster, red and green aurora.
If you can, go stargazing at a dark location. 🌠♥️
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Rest in peace my beloved mother. ❤️
She left us peacefully this morning after a long and tough fight.
If she could send a message to you it would be this,
Always be kind to everyone, no matter what.
And whatever you do, please don't ever start smoking.
I will miss her so much
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Sunrise was 30 minutes ago, sunset is in 50 minutes. This is about as bright as it gets here now.
Polar night starts in a few days, when the sun won't rise at all. We will still get about this level of light for a couple hours during the day as the sun rolls by below the horizon.
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March is coming up!
The equinoxes are prime time for the aurora. Like the shows we've been getting lately, the aurora around the equinox tends to be explosive to say the least. With colorful coronas like these lighting up the sky, spectacular way to end the season.
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Seeing the aurora over calm open water, in complete silence, is a truly ethereal experience.
The window of time in fall before the snow comes and lakes freeze is an amazing time for stargazing. Watching the sky and it's reflection with the mist rising off the water in between.
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I just turned the big 40.... Just got on a bus from the train to the hospital in our neighbour town. The bus driver asked if I'm getting a youth or adult ticket.
That man made my year! 😄
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The year is coming to an end so I wanted to decide on a favorite photo of my 2019.
There are a few but this is definitely one of them.
The most amazing light pillars I've ever seen appeared in January.
With the stars behind them, it felt like we were being beamed up :)
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Two years ago the sky came alive behind my house. 💚
Yes, it really moves like that (sometimes much faster.)
Yes, you really see the green and pink!
Yes, it's even more magical in reality.
This is filmed in real time, not a time-lapse.
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One night in Kiruna. ❤️
I was sitting by myself leaning against the wooden fence, hoping something would happen.
It did.
This is filmed in real time, this is how fast it was moving.
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It's been a beautiful freezing day. -21°C when I snapped this phone pic while taking Wil out for a very quick and short walk.
The cold is easier to handle when it looks like this, I must say. ❤️
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Crazy beautiful tonight. 😍 The Pleiades, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Cygnus, Lyra, Hercules and the aurora in this panorama from west to east. How could you ever get tired of this!? @VirtualAstro @ProfBrianCox @TamithaSkov (might have to click it up)
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The pink aurora is without a doubt one of the most beautiful sights a human can lay their eyes on.
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Fingers crossed for clear skies this weekend!
No work and all I've got is time. This might be the premiere.
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This is polar night.
This was before 12pm, right now it's yellow/orange, soon everything will be blanketed in blue and then it will go dark.
The days are very short, the sun doesn't rise above the horizon at all but it's not 24/7 darkness. :) It's beautiful!
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She's back and she's dancing! 😀
You'll have to excuse the quality of these handheld shots transferred directly from my camera to my phone.
I'm so happy right now. 💚
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Through all the grief, despair, stress and pain of 2021, the universe came through and once again showed that it does not care. I take comfort in that.
The sun returns to the subarctic next week, hopefully the light will too.
Thank you all for your support this year. ❤️
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Light pillars on a cold night.
These pillars are the result of light from streetlights and other artificial lights reflecting on tiny ice crystals suspended in the air. Yes, you actually see them.
Yes, it really looks like this. :)
Pretty but really it's just light pollution.
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When you don't have a tripod at hand and a colorful corona erupts overhead. ❤️
Works just as well to place the camera on the ground. :) Get a tilted critter's view of the light show in the sky. ☺️
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I swear sometimes living in Kiruna feels like being in His Dark Materials.
Expecting to find Lyra and Pan around every corner.
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Woke up with a migraine and a strong urge to head for the mountains.
These are all shot in Björkliden, just an hours drive from Kiruna. ❤️
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Good morning
Here's that time the aurora formed a flag over the woods.
With the rare blue aurora on top!
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Panorama from last night. It was a spectacular show. 😍 #aurora I'm in awe every single time! @VirtualAstro @SPACEdotcom @Cmdr_Hadfield
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Only hours left of this absolute trash fire of a year.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you all for your support this year, means more than you'll ever know.
Let's make 2023 a good one!
Clear skies to all and to all a good night.
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The corona and the tree.
One of those nights when you just give in and exist in the moment.
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When you drive down a lonesome road in the middle of nowhere on a dark Arctic night.
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Omg! 😍
The whole southern sky is covered in polar stratospheric clouds right now!
Or mother of pearl clouds as we call them.
Amazingly beautiful sight.
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