Awesome Aurora 27th Feb 2014

[Trull]

Anyone else see the aurora?

I had a cracking night watching the arcs, rays, corona, reds greens and yellows flitting to and fro with strobing effects lighting up whole belts of the sky. Awesome!

Here's one of my fav photos:


ISO 1600, 18mm, f/3.5, 6sec expo, RAW, Ha modded 350D. Image got a teensy tweak in iPhoto to bring up the definition of the rays but the colours pretty closely match what I saw with my eyes. Unlike certain "Disneyland Castle dwellers" harrumph.

[The French Tandem]

That's the privilege of those who live north of Edinburgh!

[IanDG]

I was asleep

[Peter]

That's the privilege of those who live north of Edinburgh!

I was over in Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast on Friday and my brother told me that it had been visible from there - he didn't see it, though!

[Jaded]

I saw some orange colours in the sky, but I wasn't sure if it was the lights of the local conurbation or not.

[Pingu]

That's just frikkin' typcal 

[RJ]

Not 27th Feb, not quite so awesome, but hey:

Aurora 1 by rjevans6, on Flickr

(Lochdon, Mull, 14th October)

ISO 1000, 15s, f2.8 brought out colour not visible to the naked eye

[Trull]

That's a nice shot RJ, good bit of curtaining going on. Did you bracket your exposures? sometimes a shorter exposure is nice as it brings out more of the individual rays rather than smoothing them out.

[RJ]

Thanks. All very rushed, because: (a) I really had no idea what the camera (G12) was capable of; (b) it was clouding over; and (c) I wanted to get back to our holiday digs to alert Dr RJ ...

So, I have a couple of shots at f5.0, which don't seem to me to show anything like the same amount of detail.  But I didn't really bracket - largely because 15" and f2.8 are as slow and wide open as the camera will go.

I was quite pleased, as it was a very dim display.

Anyhow - no that I know that the camera will cope, I'll keep an eye on the various aurora forecasts, and keep my fingers crossed the next display visible from Edinburgh isn't on a Thursday ...

[Moultonaught]

My brother took a series of aurora pics on a flight past year.

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/pcw/11333577184/

Or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okNSvH20Qlo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

One pic was a finalist in the Royal Observatory Astronomy Photographer of the year competition and was published in a book