Saw more wimpy versions of the aurora display when living in south western Iowa just a few miles north of the Missouri border.
J Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 23, 2015, at 6:50 AM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > what a treat! I like the landscape oriented one slightly more than the > vertical because it > stresses the expanse... > > ann > >> On 6/23/2015 9:21 AM, Darren Addy wrote: >> Got a Red Alert from the UK early yesterday afternoon, meaning auroras >> were active. Problem for me was, the auroras would need still need to >> be active when it got dark, and preferably near midnight to 1 AM when >> the central bulge would be pointing at me (opposite the sun). The >> aurora forecast looked promising though and so I kept a close eye on >> it. When Facebookers started reporting aurora as far south as >> Pennsylvannia and northern Iowa around 10:30 PM I headed out. It was >> good (for Nebraska) and then at 12:15 AM it briefly got GREAT. Could >> not believe it when it exceeded the FOV of my 30mm. >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/18887926418/ >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/19075589155/ >> >> K-3 and Sigma EX 30mm f1.4 (at f1.8) that I got used from Tim Bray for >> just this purpose.13 second exposures, ISO 400 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
