Solar Midnight

Alaska Aurora Photography

At solar midnight in early spring, the darkest point of Alaska's brief northern nights, the persistent edge of astronomical twilight silhouettes the grand peaks of the central Alaska Range sixty miles distant. Rising in the northwest, an enormous fan of aurora commands the remaining starfields in a display of breathtaking scale.

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"Solar Midnight"

“…Solar midnight reveals its darkest portion of brief northern nights as the long days of springtime arrive across Alaska. Soon, no stars will be visible at these high latitudes. Sixty miles distant from this view in Talkeetna, the grand peaks of the central Alaska Range, Mt. Foraker, Hunter and Denali, are silhouetted by the persistent edge of astronomical twilight. Rising in the northwest at the transition of light and dark, a vivid wedge of auroral curtains split apart cradling the moon just above Venus, as the two begin setting over the summits. Arcing fully from horizon to horizon, the brilliant display casts its glow on the ice-covered Susitna River in the mid-expanse and over the foreground snow-cover amid the forest…”

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