| Add unique and beautiful
aurora videos to your home collection! The Aurora Color Television Project
uses a uniquely sensitive video camera capable of accurately representing
the vivid, shifting colors and dynamic motion of spectacular auroral displays.
To give you some idea of just how sensitive the camera is: typical film
cameras use film with a sensitivity of ASA 25 to 1000. The ultralow-light-level
camera used for this project has an equivalent sensitivity of ASA 2,000,000!
This sensitive camera is
a scientific tool, designed for gathering observational data, but it also
gathers auroral scenes of stunning beauty. The scientists of the Geophysical
Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, who collected and analyzed these
observations, have collaborated with professional television producers
and technicians to make the wonders of Alaska's winter skies available
to everyone. Only on their video tapes can you see the aurora, as it really
moves, in its full true speed.
Videos of the Aurora?
Aurora (2nd Edition)
Aurora is a 27-minute video
tape presentation of the best displays of the aurora borealis observed
during the 1985-1986 winters in Fairbanks, Alaska. This presentation of
the northern lights enables anyone to experience the stunning color and
movement of an auroral display without risking the frostbite lurking in
a subarctic winter night!
The music accompanying the
dynamic swirling or the aurora on this videotape is from the Symphony in
Ursa Major, performed by the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra under the baton
of composer Gordon Wright.
$20 + $4 postage and handling.
The Aurora Explained
30 minutes. Tells what northern
lights are, how they work, and why and when they appear where they do.
Though accurate and based on current knowledge, the narration is nontechnical,
suitable for anyone from sixth graders to science graduates. And the aurora
provides its own illustrations, in brilliant scene after scene of stunning
arcs and colorful curtains, vivid folds and ghostly flickers. This is aurora
as it usually can be seen only under the best viewing conditions, in the
frigid chill of subarctic night, but now available for viewing in the warmth
and comfort of homes everywhere. To enhance your viewing pleasure, music
written especially to accompany these scenes of auroras in action has been
provided by Alaskan musician and composer Yonni Fischer.
$20 + $4 postage and handling.
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For information about purchasing
copies of these tapes, contact the Geophysical Institute's GeoData Center
at (907) 474-7487, or send e-mail to Rose Watabe (Rose.Watabe@gi.alaska.edu).
Current prices are: Aurora VHS video: $20+$4 postage and handling. The
Aurora Explained VHS video: $20+$4 postage and handling Aurora and The
Aurora Explained VHS video: $40+$4 postage and handling. Tapes may be ordered
by phone using Visa, Discover, or Mastercard; e-mail credit card orders
are not recommended. All proceeds from the sale of Aurora Color Television
Project videotapes are used to support research and education in geophysics. |
