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Credit & Copyright: Arnar Kristjansson;
Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
Explanation:
Is this the real world?
Or is it just fantasy?
The truth started with a dream -- a dream that the spectacular
Seljarlandsfoss waterfall
in southern
Iceland could be photographed
with a backdrop of an
aurora-filled sky.
Soon after a promising
space weather report, the visionary astrophotographer
and his partner sprang into action.
After arriving, capturing an image of the background sky, complete with a cool green
aurora,
turned out to be the easy part.
The hard part was capturing the
waterfall itself, for one
reason because mist kept
fogging the lens!
Easy
come, easy go --
it took about 100 times where someone had to go back to the camera -- on a cold night
and over slippery rocks --
to see how the last exposure turned out, wipe the lens, and reset the
camera for the
next try.
Later, the best images of
land and sky were digitally combined.
Visible in the sky, even well behind the
aurora,
are numerous
stars
of the northern sky.
The resulting title -- given by the astrophotographer -- was influenced by a
dream-like
quality of the
resulting
image, possibly combined with the knowledge that some things really mattered
in this effort to make a
dream come true.
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NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: aurora
Publications with words: aurora
See also:
- APOD: 2025 January 7 Á A New Years Aurora and SAR Arc
- APOD: 2024 December 8 Á Aurora around Saturns North Pole
- APOD: 2024 October 16 Á Colorful Aurora over New Zealand
- APOD: 2024 October 13 Á Aurora Timelapse Over Italian Alps
- Northern Lights, West Virginia
- Aurora Australis and the International Space Station
- APOD: 2024 June 26 Á Timelapse: Aurora, SAR, and the Milky Way