Finally we have seen a stronger aurora visible to the naked eye.
Aurora of 25 september
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Parelio
Here the ice cristals suspended in the atmosphere can generate a halo around the Sun, sometimes also sun dogs appear
Dawn and Dusk at DomeC
The arrival of the first sunrises and sunsets surprised us with a multitude of unexpected colors.
The classic colors associated with sunset are much more intense than those we are used to.
For the first time I saw shades of pink and purple growing from the opposite side of the sunset and gradually giving way to an increasingly large slice of darkness. Obviously, this process is reversed during sunrises.
The most beautiful thing is to observe the sky separated in a large V: on one side the light colors (yellow / orange) degrade until they reach the minimum point, from which they grow stronger into dark colors (pink / purple).
Human buildings themselves interact the sunlight making charming effects with the reflections of the windows, enchanting hugs with their structure outline or heavy contrasts with their interior lighting.
Aurora of 31 August
We saw a soft white glow from the window and a photo confirmed that there was an aurora outside.
The spectacle is outstanding: two auroras cross the sky making a big X.
Just for few minutes the intensity became stronger and visible to the naked eye. A big gift for Elvio’s Birthday (september 1)
I have enhanced the photos (luminosity +70, contrast +60) to show the aurora but the color rendering depends on your monitor
A window on universe
Every night the window of my room opens my eyesight over an awesome universe of stars.
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Outside the window the environment is hostile. The temperature stays between -55°C and -75°C and the average pressure is around 644.4 hPA. Is a double window and between the two windows the temperature stays between -22°C and -41°C. The border of external window is covered by a thick layer of ice. The day (or when i lit the light) the internal window glass show a spectacle of ice cristals.
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First dawn & sunset after antarctic night
Night sky
Also the antarctic night has its wonders. The night sky with stars, planets, satellites, meteors, the milkyway and the Moon.
A lot of people are afraid about perennal night but if you have a lot of interests and keep in touch with your love, parents or friends it is simple to avoid the winterover syndrome (at least for me).
You couldn’t observe all these wonders with the Sun.
Photography is one of my best interests here, followed by wood carving and painting.
This is one concreate pillar tall as least 3 meters near the astronomical shelters. The first photo is oversaturated because it is very difficult to regulate the photocamera parameters at -65°C. In some case you have to remove your gloves, act on controls and put back the gloves as faster as you can. But after few shots the camera controls start to freeze, the LCD updates the images really slowly and the shot button starts to become unresponsive.
Aurora of 20 July 2016
Only Simonetta and Nicole are out of the Station for scientific work. They have seen just a soft white glow because the intensity is very low.
first weak sunlight
The 14 July a reddish light paints the DomeC horizon. Sunlight intensity is just above the lower limit of my fotocamera sensitivity.
Two days after a stronger shades of jellow, orange and violet start to lit the horizon
2 may 2016
The sun has just died. The antarctic night took me under its dark cover
