January 25, 2014 Auroras
Chatanika, AK
After two consecutive evenings of increasing clouds followed by two mornings of rain and freezing rain, the individual shortwave troughs that caused all this mess moved out of our area, and although the warm, most flow continued from the south, there was enough sinking motion to allow for the skies to clear in the evening. We ate a wonderful halibut dinner prepared by Debbie, our host at Taste of Alaska Lodge. We finished dinner, cleaned up, and noticed conditions were again favorable for auroras. Back to milepost 34.5 of the Steese Highway!
We shot there for nearly two hours, and the auroras remained in a rather stationary band to our north. I set up two cameras to record time lapse to the northeast, over the river, and to the northwest, over the nearest mountain. By the end of the time lapse, fog had formed on the lenses, the auroras had faded a bit, and high, thin clouds moved back in. Time to call it a night!
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| View to the northwest over the hill. |
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| View to the northeast over the river at Milepost 34, Steese Highway. |