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| Title: "Pioneer Peak Aurora" by Alaska Artist Dianne Roberson Hendrix The Northern Lights | Alaska Stock # DA 115 Medium: Digital Art | Color Print on glossy paper Size: 20" wide by 16" High $ 175.00 Size: 14" wide by 11" High $ 85.00 Description: Pioneer Peak in Palmer, Alaska with the Northern Lights in the sky. Also know as the Aurora Borealis, these lights are best viewed in the cold dark winter months in Alaska. The beautiful blaze of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, begins when energetic electrically charged particles accelerate along the magnetic field lines into the upper atmosphere, where they collide with gas atoms, causing the atoms to give off light. The air lights up rather like what happens in a fluorescent light tube. The colors reflect gases, the most usual yellow-green color coming from oxygen. Red coloring is also due to oxygen with a contribution from nitrogen and violet is due to nitrogen. The charged particles originate from the sun, and it is the “weather” conditions on the sun that decide whether or not we will see the aurora. Low on the horizon a faint glow of greenish light which forms an arch, stretching lazily across the sky can be seen in the night. Additional bands of light form and drift overhead, slowly brightening to form giant curtains in the sky that slowly wave like a gentle breeze blowing. The bottom of the aurora curtain brightens with a reddish tint and ripples faster. Blues and purples appear as the curtains pass directly overhead. Bright points of light swirl like a pinwheel. The entire sky seems to be full of color and motion. The most prominent peak in the Mat-Su Valley is Pioneer Peak (6,500') located just outside the small town of Palmer, Alaska. The Chugach Range borders the southeast side of the Mat-Su borough, the Chugach Range forms a crescent that is 300 miles in length. Due to its close proximity to Alaska's southcentral coastal waters, this range received the most snowfall than any other range in the world. Mount Baker is the tallest peak in this range (13,176'). This print is treated with an ultra violent protective coating. It will be rolled and inserted into a mailing tube. I will also insert a sheet with information about this print. The print will be mailed first class by the U.S. Postal Service and insured. |
| Art World Plus | Digital Art Gallery Alaskan Art by Alaskan Artist Dianne Roberson Hendrix |
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