Letterkenny after a Snow Spell

Letterkenny after a Snow Spell

Eskimo In Ireland – Joshua the Igloo/Colosseum Maker

Eskimo In Ireland – Joshua the Igloo/Colosseum Maker

My kid demanded that he wanted to make Igloo after he learned from a TV show that bricks can be made out of snow using a box. We stopped at an area on the higher grounds where there was enough snow and Joshua chose it as his Igloo site. He made the bricks using a plastic container box (under his knee in the picture). This is what he made out. Of course, I helped him to make it fast we couldn’t be out there for hours in the freezing temperature with occasional freezing winds and snowfall.

The highest mountain that you see behind is Mt. Errigal

Is it an Igloo or Colosseum?

A Winter Sunrise view from Letterkenny

A Winter Sunrise view from Letterkenny (07th February 2018)

Post bloodbath on a super blue moon day in Letterkenny

After the bloodbath on a super blue moon day, it finally emerged out of the clouds to be seen in Ireland.

A Beautiful Morning - Letterkenny

A Beautiful Morning - Letterkenny

Fog in Letterkenny

Winter Morning Sky - A Panorama

Winter Morning Sky - A Panorama from Letterkenny

Sunrise

Snow hits higher grounds of Donegal on 23rd November 2017

Milkyway Panorama - Trial 2

Milkyway Panorama - Trial 1

LakeSide at Midnight (Lough Barra - Donegal)

A panorama from 36 images captured on September 2nd 2017 at Lough Barra

From the top of Mount Errigal

From the top of Mount Errigal

Hope

A beautiful rainbow that appeared on 21st September 2017 @ Letterkenny, Donegal

Aurora click from Lough Salt - Donegal - 02 September 2017 04:28 am Irish time

Aurora prediction was rather low (less than G1) but the sky was clear after the moon set around 02:00am. So I thought of giving a try to capture a Milky Way panorama. After clicking a few snaps from a dark sky location in Donegal, I thought giving it another try form the view point near Lough Salt since the brightest part of the Galaxy was covered by a nearby hill. Around 4:20 I reached Lough Salt and I could see faint beams of light pointing upwards, but never thought that it could be Aurora after all the low prediction level. But when I looked at the first shot, to my surprise, it turned out to be Aurora. So I gave up the Milky Way panorama idea and started clicking the Aurora. It faded of slowly as the astronomical dawn happened over the next half an hour. These two clicks are taken at 04:28am and 04:29am. As a bonus, when I processed the image, I could also find the green Airglow in these images and these are my first Airglow captures.