On April 25, 2021 I hiked out to watch the northern lights from Angel Rocks. It turned out to be one of the best displays…
Midnight view through the forest on April 22, 2021 There are only two more days before the darkest it gets in Fairbanks is nautical twilight,…
Last night may have been the best aurora displays I’ve seen in years. And it was persistent. When I first walked out there was a…
April 16, 2021. In Fairbanks, we have to say goodbye to the aurora in April. We’ve already begun the time when the Sun dips no…
Aurora Borealis Blog The fast solar wind stream from a southern coronal hole continues, and we continue to benefit from its impact on Earth’s magnetic…
Aurora over Fairbanks | Purchase Print Earth has entered a fast solar wind stream from a coronal hole sparking some nice northern lights last night!…
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…
Ghostly aurora from the Granite Tors Trail | Purchase Print I’m awakened in the night by a shiver. I have somehow found my way deep…
The morning of disappointing, disappearing aurora Jenn and I managed to do a bit of aurora watching in mild(er) temperatures early in…
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…
Purchase Print Where do I even begin? I mean, the title kind of says it all. As I sit here writing, I am purely exhausted.…
“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…
