spielwiese. (Posts about great slave lake.)https://spielwiese.fontein.de/place/north-america/canada/northwest-terretories/great-slave-lake.atom2019-11-17T10:46:17ZfelixNikolaa second visit to yellowknife.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2010/11/30/a-second-visit-to-yellowknife/2010-11-30T23:04:20+01:002010-11-30T23:04:20+01:00felix<div><p>this weekend, i payed <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/tag/yellowknife/">yellowknife</a> a second visit. this time, during winter, with snow, ice, and freezing temperatures. and more aurora viewings.</p>
<p>here’s a first impression i got on the first day. it was taken at 14:20, and you can see that the sun was already pretty near to the horizon. the sunset is around 15:30, and goes down to 15:00 during winter’s shortest days. sunrise was around 9:30 the time i was there; it goes up to 10:00 during the shortest days.</p>
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<p>i was staying in the <a href="http://pages.ssimicro.com/~narwal/bnb/index.html">narwal bed and breakfast</a>, a small bed and breakfast located near the <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/tag/great-slave-lake/">great slave lake</a>, meaning i could just walk on the frozen lake and hopefully see some nice auroras during nighttime. here’s a nighttime impression, without an aurora but with clouds:</p>
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<p>during the days, i often walked around and on the <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/tag/frame-lake/">frame lake</a>. lots of memories came up. it was often cloudy with breaks. here are some nice impressions:</p>
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<p>finally, on the second and third night, the sky was mostly clear. and both nights featured auroras! the second night had a not very bright one, at least while i was outside, but the third and last night had some really great ones. here are a few impressions:</p>
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<p>finally, here’s a video i recorded, consisting of 484 frames, each shot having an exposure time of one second. the movie is played back with six frames per second, i.e. you get a time lapse:</p>
<p class="center"><video controls="controls" preload="metadata" style="width:100%; max-width:888px;"><source src="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/photos/2010/11/aurora.mp4" type="video/mp4"></source><source src="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/photos/2010/11/aurora.ogv" type="video/ogg"></source></video></p>
<p>(this is a <a href="http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html">html5 video tag</a>, so hopefully it works. otherwise, you can directly try the <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/photos/2010/11/aurora.mp4">mpeg 4</a> variant and the <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/photos/2010/11/aurora.ogv">ogg theora</a> variant.)</p></div>a western canadian vacation: yellowknife's great slave lake.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2009/10/05/a-western-canadian-vacation-yellowknifes-great-slave-lake/2009-10-05T19:00:17+02:002009-10-05T19:00:17+02:00felix<div><p>another day, we did a trip to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Slave_Lake">great slave lake</a>, a <i>huge</i> lake (its area takes 7% of germany’s area, or two thirds of switzerland’s area).</p>
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