Apr. 2
Kanger
Operation IceBeard status: Scruffy Level Alpha
I've heard complaint of too much yapping, too few aurora pics. So let's get right into the visuals.
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| The Arctic Sun in full circle view, by Kathryn |
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| Jfro on a well-frozen lake |
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| The south-side Thai restaurant, convenience store, and bar. |
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| Our block. We're the red-faced storage bunker. |
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| Bar 57, or Nordlys |
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| And the sign that lets you know it's a bar |
So a new bar opened up this year and is the buzz of the research community. And I quite like it. Local guy rocking the synth in two languages. Darts. Regular pool and Danish Five Pin, or Keglebilliard. (Would love to introduce it to you gamers out there. Narrowly lost my first game.) Evidently Nordlys means "the Northern Lights" which is quite fitting because two nights in a row we've walked out and seen something like this:
Now, I came to Greenland thinking that the Canon 7D could shoot timelapses. It can, but it has no intervalometer. You have to either have it hooked up to a laptop -- not very handy for -3 Fahrenheit conditions -- or buy an external timelapse module thingy. I'm thinking of having one shipped. OR, you can assemble a team of volunteers and take turns snapping 30-sec exposures (at f4, ISO 1600) until the battery dies. Stay tuned for the whole video ...
You're great at finding the wildest night life wherever you go. Where did that come from?
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to learn how to play Keglebilliard!
ReplyDeleteI like the yapping too.
ReplyDeleteExcellent blog, I'm subscribing. Good luck with the timelapses. I'm still trying to do it without restarting 3 times. hint: turn off the auto focus.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great adventure. Keep the posts coming.
-Henry
from Transcripts of Greenland Ice Flights: [Eastmont] It's something you have to experience ... we'll fly these patterns at 1,500 feet, above the ground level. And you get up on the ice sheet it's like flying over the clouds. And you look down and it's white, fluffy sometimes -- it just looks like a cloud. You have to keep in your head that it's solid underneath you. Probably one of the neatest things to see is when you're flying down the glacier toward the ocean, you're at 1,500 feet and just as you hit the ocean the glacier drops off another thousand feet. No matter now often you do it, it always takes your breath.
ReplyDeleteI'm so jealous of the Nordlys! Are these your first auroras or did you see some when you were in Alaska?
ReplyDeleteI've totally been having some of those Eastmont moments!
ReplyDeleteAnd I have seen a half dozen auroras before -- in Alaska and Michigan's U.P. But always happy to see more.