1350-97 - The partial eclipse of the Sun, October 23, 2014, as seen from Jasper, Alberta, shot under clear skies through a mylar filter, on the front of a 66mm f/6 apo refractor using the Canon 60Da for 1/8000 (!) sec exposure at ISO 100. The colours are natural, with the mylar filter providing a neutral 'white light' image. The big sunspot on the Sun that day is just disappearing behind the Moon's limb. The mylar filter gave a white Sun, its natural colour, but I have tinted the Sun's disk yellow for a more pleasing view that is not just white Sun/black sky.
1350-71 - Photographer Stephen Bedingfield is shooting the Northern Lights at the Ramparts waterfalls on the Cameron River, September 8, 2019. The Big Dipper is at centre. The aspen trees are nicely turning colour.
1350-139 - Curtains of aurora during an active storm on February 18, 2018 from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in the early evening in the last of the twilight. This night the aurora was brightest early in the evening. The Big Dipper is at left.
1350-99 - The Northern Lights on Feb 16, 2015, as seen from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in Churchill, Manitoba at 58° latitude, and under the auroral oval. The aurora appeared as skies cleared somewhat during a blizzard with high winds and blowing snow conditions. I shot these from the second floor deck of the Centre, out of the wind and off the ground. Jupiter is at right, the Big Dipper at left.
1350-102 - The Big Dipper in hazy clouds over the Waterton River at Maskinonge Pond, September 23, 2016, taken at the Night Photography Workshop I conducted there that night. The glow at right is light pollution from the Shell Waterton Gas Plant and from Pincher Creek to the north.
1350-72 - An arc of Northern Lights appears in the evening twilight over Prelude Lake near Yellowknife, NWT, on September 9, 2019. The Big Dipper is at left. Capella is at right.
1335-179 - Sunburst through the desert rocks with Chisos Mountains in the background, Big Bend National Park, Texas, United States of America, North America
1311-240 - Comet NeoWise 2020 above Sullivan Butte in Chino Valley, with the Moon on the lower left and the Big Dipper in the center, Arizona, United States of America, North America
832-387689 - Mauna Kea Observatory, Subaru Telescope, Keck Observatory and Infrared Telescope Facility, Mauna Kea Ice Age Natural Area Reserve, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, North America
832-384146 - Large ice sculpture made of plastic as advertisement for an ice cream parlour in front of a blue sky, le Gurp, Grayan-et-l`Hopital, Aquitaine, Gironde, France, Europe
1176-1197 - Big Ben (Queen Elizabeth Tower), the Houses of Parliament), UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Westminster Bridge, Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
1116-47432 - Two women hiking in the Yukon–Charley Rivers National Preserve on tundra in summertime towards the B-22 downed plane, Alaska, United States of America
1116-48267 - May 2018 eruption, Leilani Estates subdivision, East Rift Zone Kilauea Volcano, Big Island of Hawaii, Pahoa, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States of America
733-8897 - Holei lava sea arch, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Big Island, Hawaii, United States of America, North America
83-13143 - Big red setting sun beyond fishing boat moored off beach south of the city, Otres Beach, Sihanoukville, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia
1314-155 - Panoramic view of Ellery Creek Big Hole waterhole in West MacDonnell Ranges surrounded by red cliffs and bush outback vegetation, Northern Territory, Central Australia, Australia, Pacific
1116-46388 - Cinder Cones And Caldera From Ancient Lava Eruptions Atop 4200 Meter Mauna Kea, Tallest Mountain In Hawaii, At Sunset, Island Of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States Of America
860-287450 - Tara Oceans Expeditions - May 2011. Tara with deployed plancton nets. On "station", the boat is drifting without engine or sails. Tara Oceans, a unique expedition: Tara Oceans is the very first attempt to make a global study of marine plankton, a form of sea life that includes organisms as small as viruses and bacterias, and as big as medusas. Our goal is to better understand planktonic ecosystems by exploring the countless species, learning about interactions among them and with their environment. Marine plankton is the only ecosystem that is almost continuous over the surface of the Earth. Studying plankton is like taking the pulse of our planet. Recently, scientists have discovered the great importance of plankton for the climate: populations of plankton are affected very rapidly by variations in climate. But in turn they can influence the climate by modifying the absorption of carbon. In a context of rapid physico-chemical changes, for example the acidification observed today in the world's oceans, it is urgent to understand and predict the evolution of these particular ecosystems. Finally, plankton is an astonishing way of going back in time ? a prime source of fossils. Over the eons, plankton has created several hundred meters of sediment on the ocean floors. This allows us to go back in time, to the first oceans on Earth, and better understand the history of our biosphere. More than 12 fields of research are involved in the project, which will bring together an international team of oceanographers, ecologists, biologists, geneticists, and physicists from prestigious laboratories headed by Eric Karsenti of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Galapagos