Beautiful, Darren! I've only seen the aurora once, in about 1970 in New Hampshire--never since. There were rippling curtains of these colors, plus white, racing across the sky. Amazing.
Cheers, Rick On Jun 23, 2015, at 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 > > -- > Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. > > -- > 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. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- 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.
