Amazing Aurora Photo of a Bird and a Rabbit in the Sky

An aurora photo taken in Iceland fascinates those who see it. In the aurora photo taken by Miguel Claro, known for sky-themed photographs, silhouettes of a bird and a rabbit appeared.

Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science editor who lives in Lisbon, Portugal, and works to capture spectacular images of the night sky. Miguel Claro also runs the European Southern Observatory Photography Embassy and specializes in astronomical sky photographs that connect the night sky with the earth. The last photo he captured contains quite interesting details when looked carefully but let's look at what aura is before the photo.

What is Aurora?

The world tends to be more geomagnetically active in the spring and autumn equinoxes. Auroras occur when the flow of charged particles from the Sun or the solar winds interacts with the atmosphere that breaks the Earth's magnetic field and causes it to shine. Scientists aren't quite sure why these auroras occur more around the equinoxes, but one of the most common hypotheses known as the Russell-McPherron effect suggests that more cracks have been opened in the Earth's magnetic field and solar winds are allowed during this time.

Claro's last photo is a truly aurora photo. In this sky photo taken at night from the Arctic Circle, magnificent green spring aurora dances on snow-capped mountains.

Photo of aurora where birds and rabbits appear in the sky:

Auroras can be seen in a great variety of colors combined in different shapes and create beautiful and imaginary shapes that can last for a few minutes. The vertical panorama above reveals one of these epic moments, the incredible shape of the bird flying with a running rabbit. In the sky in the background, the constellation Ursa Major (Great Bear) is well visible in the upper center. Star Alioth (the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major) points to the bird's “eye”.

An annotated version with lines drawn on the picture helps to show a personal interpretation of the scene from the author's point of view and reveals the incredible shape of a bird flying with a running rabbit. This vertical panorama consists of three shots taken with the Nikon D810a DSLR camera using ISO 2500 and a wide-angle 14 mm lens set at f / 2.8 with an exposure time of 15 seconds.