Thanks so much for the views and comments! Interesting how the majority prefers the horizontal. I prefer the vertical, even though it is at a display disadvantage because I love the purples at the very top of the aurora, before it turns to black and I miss that on the horizontal. On both of these images I am struck by the optical illusion, almost 3D quality of the aurora. I realize that it is not so much a great image as a great subject, but I was still glad to have been fortunate enough to be there when it happened to capture it.
Apparently, late last night this image was added to Flickr Explore, as I awake to it having over 4000 views this morning! On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Knarf <[email protected]> wrote: > Stunning! > > Cheers, > > frank > > On 23 June, 2015 9:21:47 AM EDT, 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/ >> >>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 > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
