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KrisOhn
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Does anyone have really nice aurora where they're from. I was outside of the city at an observatory last night, doing some observing, and while they're not great for maintaining your dark sky adaptation, they sure do make some great photos.
The craziest part of the aurora was after these pictures were taken though:
After the aurora settled down I put my camera away because it was collecting dew, which was freezing onto it (it was quite a wet night). After a couple hours of observing, someone shouted to look at the aurora. I looked and it was crazy, brighter and more active than I had ever seen it before, I thought about grabbing my camera but decided not to; I just watched and enjoyed. After that settled down I went back into the warmup shelter to look at some star charts. When I came back outside, I looked up, and there was this huge green band across the sky, right across the zenith from horizon to horizon, it was the aurora. First time I had seen anything like that in my life, I went back inside to grab my camera, but the frost on it had melted to water so I decided it would be best to leave it off. Amazing sight though.
The craziest part of the aurora was after these pictures were taken though:
After the aurora settled down I put my camera away because it was collecting dew, which was freezing onto it (it was quite a wet night). After a couple hours of observing, someone shouted to look at the aurora. I looked and it was crazy, brighter and more active than I had ever seen it before, I thought about grabbing my camera but decided not to; I just watched and enjoyed. After that settled down I went back into the warmup shelter to look at some star charts. When I came back outside, I looked up, and there was this huge green band across the sky, right across the zenith from horizon to horizon, it was the aurora. First time I had seen anything like that in my life, I went back inside to grab my camera, but the frost on it had melted to water so I decided it would be best to leave it off. Amazing sight though.