Christmas day auroras, kittela, Finland..

[Fozzie]

Can't tell you how blessed I feel seeing this, with my family next to me.. Merry christmas everyone!

Apologies for the blurriness, was shooting free hand as I caught during a festive feast with no tripod...

Ta

fozzie 

[tooth_dr]

Lovely, what a sight to see on Christmas Day. 

[Victor Boesen]

Very nice! You also caught a phenomenon in the last photo which causes those stripes of light from the houses. Can’t remember what it’s calles or how it happens but I do remember reading about it.

[JemC]

Fantastic, 

memories you will have for a long time I'm sure

[Craney]

10 minutes ago, Victor Boesen said:

Very nice! You also caught a phenomenon in the last photo which causes those stripes of light from the houses. Can’t remember what it’s calles or how it happens but I do remember reading about it.

Think they are called  'Light Pillars '.   I've never seen them in an urban environment in the  U.K.   It must be a phenomenom of -15'C or below.

[Fozzie]

Light pillers.. not sure what causes them..  ice crystals I bet..

I know I'm showing off now....

[Victor Boesen]

1 hour ago, Fozzie said:

I know I'm showing off now....

Haha I would do too

[Victor Boesen]

1 hour ago, Craney said:

Think they are called  'Light Pillars '.   I've never seen them in an urban environment in the  U.K.   It must be a phenomenom of -15'C or below.

Ohhh that’s what they are called, I couldn’t remember.. I read about them in a a magazine about nature’s phenomenon, but sadly I don’t have the magazine here...

[Pete Presland]

fabulous collection.

[wimvb]

On 2017-12-25 at 21:40, Fozzie said:

Light pillers.. not sure what causes them..  ice crystals I bet..

 

 

 

I know I'm showing off now....

Nice to see you're having such a good time.

Yes, those pillars are caused by tiny ice crystals in the air.

And, yes, you're showing off. But there's nothing wrong with that. Keep those pretty pictures coming ...