Sometimes the moon is so bright at the Pole that it lights up the dark winter skies. The moon was setting last week, and as it left there was a slow transition to the first visible signs of sunlight along the horizon. The week was a fairly quiet one, with the IceCube detector being well behaved. The Antarctic winter film festival wrapped up, with the South Pole winning the “best editing” category and getting the second-most votes for best film. IceCube winterover Benjamin’s time-lapse videos received some accolades for “best cinematography,” too. Below is a nice shot of lingering auroras (in a moonlit sky) above the 2019 South Pole marker.
