These are gorgeous shots, Darren. Thanks for sharing them with those of us who live too far south (and were under cloud cover to boot).
Yonnie On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jun 23, 2015, at 08:21 , Darren Addy <[email protected]> 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/ >> > > Beautiful, Darren! I'm just kicking myself for going to bed at 12:10. Even > with the haze from downtown Minneapolis directly to my North, I'll wager I'd > have seen SOMETHING. Darnit! > > I definitely prefer the horizontal shot to the vertical one. More for the > eye to take in.. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [email protected] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > 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.
