Aurora thread

[sploo]

Let's see your aurora shots.

These were taken in 2012 near Muonio in Finland, on a Canon 7D. I'd love the chance to go back with a more modern camera.

 

[sploo]

On the night of the second shot the clouds rolled in as we were shooting, leading to this sequence of images:

 

[LeeRatters]

Once.

At a local lighthouse.

This was about the best I could manage but we are at 51.5 degrees here.....


*** [Explored] by Lee, on Flickr

 

[LeeRatters]

Even more surprising, is that I caught it on my star trail Film camera too!!

I guess that is pretty unusual.....?


*** by Lee, on Flickr

 

[boomer1959]

Here’s my favourites

 

[gjl711]

Very nice. Aurora make for some magical images. I wish I could contribute but alas, living in Texas, if we get auroras here, it's pretty close to the end of the world i think.

 

[LeeRatters]

On Friday night the 1st of December, I found myself with very cold feet at Keeper's Pond in South Wales.

Timelapse & film shots to follow - the latter in quite a while as it's a new film!!

A7 - 35GM


*** by Lee, on Flickr

 

[DavidWatts]

SpaceWeather indicated some Aurora activity tonight, so I went out to see if I could get anything. OK, so not great, but this is the first Aurora I have ever seen and photographed. August 12, 2024, 12:29am.

Canon 5D3 • Canon 40mm pancake lens • f/5 • 0.8 sec • iso 2000 • Larger Photo in Original Gallery​

 

[edmidlifecrisis]

I just got back from a family vacation in Iceland. We saw he Aurora several nights from two of the AirBNB's we stayed at. It wasn't a photography trip so I got what I could without driving my family crazy. (I probably did a little, anyway).

Here's one. Canon R5 with RF 16mm f2.8 13 seconds, ISO 125 wide open. Processed in LRC

Northern lights, Iceland by Ed Spenser, on Flickr

 

[Melissa]

Taken last night in Ottawa. My first time photographing it. I will use a slower shutter speed next time.

 

[edmidlifecrisis]

Northern lights, Iceland by Ed Spenser, on Flickr

 

[Dave Harries]

Taken near Bath in the UK last night in the back garden, just a shame there were so many clouds about

 

[Terry McDaniel]

My try from Southern Oklahoma. I wish the ATT cell tower wasn’t there for this photo, but I’m glad it is the rest of the time! The brighter stars are the handle of the Big Dipper.

Some folks in Oklahoma got some really good photos last night, I’m not one of them.

 

[AdeR]

Last night (11 Oct) at home, latitude 39S. A passing car providing some nice foreground lighting in the first, and Venus shining brightly just above out pear trees in the second...

 

[mcoren]

This is from outside of Leesburg, Virginia, USA, 39°N, at about 2:00 am local time (UTC-4). Even considering the light pollution, it was very faint. I had to take a few pics and chimp them to convince myself I was really seeing it. I heard it had been more vivid a few hours earlier in the evening. The bright star toward the upper left is Polaris.

 

[AdeR]

Later in the night I set up my GoPro to shoot a 3 hour nightlapse. I had thought the aurora activity had died off for the night, but managed to capture a light show well after going to bed!

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[Roboticspro]

Good Morning,

A couple of shots from the October 10th display...

Regards,

Edd

 

[Craig]

I participated in amateur astrophotography night 2024. It didn't take long for me to figure out that we are fortunate to have a bunch of talented Astrophotograpers in this forum. I will continue to admire your work from a distance and focus on better lit objects. I have a new respect for the astrophotography genre.

Living on the edge of civilization I was able to get to a semi dark area. This was taken at a large horse farm about 5 minutes from my house in Northwestern Baltimore County.

 

[HoHum]

Oct. 10th St Annes pier (NW England)

 

[aezoss]

October 7, ~2050 MDT. Spent the day in Helena, MT. Caught the aurora on the way to Great Falls. We found a spot on the side of the Old US 91 outside of Cascade. The display was wild. The First time we've seen red & faint purple along with green naked eye.

1. Small crop otherwise sooc + LR6 defaults.


2. Aurora started to settle down. +25 clarity, +25 saturation. Hillside lit by an oncoming truck.