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APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:07 am
by APOD Robot
Creature Aurora Over Norway
Explanation: It was Halloween and the sky looked like a creature. Exactly which creature, the
astrophotographer was unsure (
but possibly you can suggest one). Exactly what caused the
eerie apparition was sure: one of the best
auroral displays in recent memory. This
spectacular aurora had an unusually high degree of
detail. Pictured
above, the vivid green and purple
auroral colors are caused by high atmospheric
oxygen and
nitrogen reacting to a burst of incoming
electrons. Birch
trees in
Tromsø,
Norway formed an also
eerie foreground. Many other
photogenic auroras have been triggered by
recent energetic flares on the Sun.
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Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:31 am
by olympusmons
a wolf lying down, its back on the mountain, alert, looking out into the galaxy. or perhaps a snail's foot.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:41 am
by new1
cobra
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:47 am
by alter-ego
I see a fire-breathing dragon in flight to the left. It seems appropriate to only have it's heart smack dab in the great square of Pegasus.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:48 am
by Nitpicker
Looks like a troll ... or is that click-bait?
Edit: but lovely picture.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:01 am
by Uwe
Click-bait is rather good ^^, but to me it shows a jumping salmon at a waterfall. You can clearly detect some kind of dorsal fin at the right.
Anyway, Thanks again for the beautiful picture!
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:36 am
by wisbech10@yahoo.com
Reminds me of the Lord Voldemort attack on the Quidditch World Cup encampment in the Harry Potter books.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:48 am
by phedre
It looks like a magnetospheric eel
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:00 am
by BMAONE23
While it does resemble Moldywarts Dark Mark
I see a rather large swan
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:08 am
by Mikey
Wings are spread, the neck arches high...
"The Phoenix Rises"
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:27 am
by Obi-don
Maybe it's because I'm a single guy, but I see the top half of a nekkid lady, the center of the image being her head turned towards the camera.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:48 am
by Milky Waster
It's a sky fossil of an aurorasaurus. These flying lizards had wings which were sensitive to approaching comets and they took to the skies about 65 million years ago rarely to be seen again.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:50 am
by GavinW
Definitely a Snark of the Boojum variety.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:44 am
by slywlf
Mikey wrote:Wings are spread, the neck arches high...
"The Phoenix Rises"
My thought exactly!!!
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:02 am
by Rikk
Super pic but aren't the colours formed from oxygen and nitrogen?
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:34 am
by mister T
Cecil the Sea Serpent
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:46 am
by Boomer12k
Riddle me this....Batman....what would today's APOD remind you of, if it was turned 180 degrees?????
"Holy Question mark, Batman!"
"Correct Robin, this can mean only one thing....The Riddler is out to steal the Aurora Borealis....THE FIEND!!! To the Batmobile!!!!"
Doo doo doo doo doo doo.....
:---[===] *
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:53 am
by Mumbotron
I bet you'll like this one... a Phoenix. Or you could go with Quetzalcoatl if you are into that kinda stuff.
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 11:16 am
by skywriter
BMAONE23 wrote:While it does resemble Moldywarts Dark Mark
I see a rather large swan
Mikey wrote:Wings are spread, the neck arches high...
"The Phoenix Rises"
Is'nt it a swan like this?:
![Image](http://ibc.lynxeds.com/files/imagecache/photo_940/pictures/2142629074_3e6f5aae30_o.jpg)
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 11:52 am
by me@alexjmoore.com
This must be an Aukrora
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:48 pm
by neufer
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:51 pm
by egenpaliari
Why it is the Nocte Norse Monster, of course.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:06 pm
by FloridaMike
I see Ions...
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:06 pm
by copernicus9
I see a sailfish jumping out of the water
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:11 pm
by Imagineer
Setting aside discussion of the apparition evoked by today’s amazing aurora image for a moment, I’m intrigued by the “small vertical tail” appearing at the left inner edge of the crescent, just left of image center. May I assume the image captures a dense sheet of incoming electrons more or less edge-on?