Aurora borealis displays February 19-21 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Geomagnetic storms sparked from a fast solar wind from a coronal hole have provided us with great…
It sure doesn’t feel like it, but it’s been over a year since I’ve published a blog-post. I’ve still been writing, editing, and updating, but…
I woke up early to photograph a cool planetary alignment of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter with a quarter moon. I lucked out because the aurora…
The first impressive aurora borealis display I witnessed this season was shortly after midnight on September 11. It broke up fairly quickly, becoming diffuse, but…
I’m awakened in the night by a shiver. I have somehow found my way deep in my sleeping bag, sticking my nose toward the tiny…
Jenn and I managed to do a bit of aurora watching in mild(er) temperatures early in the morning on February 1st. I had been keeping…
Welcome to the Alaska interior, welcome to the boreal forest. This is a unique biome. Coniferous trees dominate the landscape, yet stands of birch and…
Where do I even begin? I mean, the title kind of says it all. As I sit here writing, I am purely exhausted. I was…
“Aurora Landscape” — photo of the week ending January 3, 2015 Everything was so still. Except for the sky. The sky was crawling. The cold…
Sitting at the computer last night, I had given up any hope that we’d have any good aurora this weekend, so I started writing a…
Last night I strapped on my snowshoes to take a walk around Murphy Dome. It’s not really my favorite spot, but it’s a convenient location…
It seems like every night the clouds roll in fast, no matter how nice of a day it may have been. I still managed to…
With little to no snow on the ground I packed up my winter hiking boots instead of my ski boots and hiked slowly out to…
Well . . . last night was incredible. The aurora was out shortly after nightfall. Diffuse bands filled the sky between 8-11 pm. Shortly after…
I love eating dinner, then walking out our door to sights like this. Any night I don’t have to stay up until 4 am to…
My mother and father in law have been to Fairbanks four times, including two very cold winter visits. To our dismay, over twenty nights in…
Shortly after 11 pm on Friday (April 11) I walked outside to find the sky was still bright with twilight. The stars were shining, and…
Definitely the best show of the year so far. Absolutely fantastic. I took out the new lens. Unfortunately I found one drawback to it: it…
