Here's an aurora shot that I took during a very bright all-sky auroral storm over Doune, Scotland, in November 2003. A view looking to the zenith showing coronal streamers creating an angelic shape; 10sec exposure onto Fuji 400F slide film through a Minolta 16mm super widefield lens (all manual set-up!). Many northern constellations not visible from southern Australia are shown, including some more familiar ones - Orion, Taurus, etc, but upside down! The figure is the statue of Sir David Stirling DSO.
hope i like it, woah dam i love it, what a beautiful pic i would love to see one of those one day very pretty thanks for sharing, the statue looks cool from the angle you took the pic very nice
I saw that aurora and have similar pictures. It was a great night. I also drove to Doune to see it (I lived in Glasgow). I moved to Sydney in 2004 so haven't seen the aurora since. Thanks for rekindling the memories.
Many years ago (October 1989) I had set off for my usual Saturday night stargazing session in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, together with Andrew James. A dead calm, clear and quiet night started out looking promising, but as we were about to set up we were greeted by an aurora (see below). It came and went periodically in several waves, about 30 minutes apart. While it spoiled the observing session, we were quite content to sit back and watch for an hour or two.
While it may not be much of an aurora to some we were rather surprised to see one this far north. The big hill is Mt Banks, and the lights of Blackheath (due south of our site) are visible across the valley in one or two shots, and some of the constellations are fairly obvious. The bright object in the west was Jupiter.
Thanks everyone for your comments. Much appreciated. Special thanks to wavytone for sharing their aurora australis images - they are excellent images. I'm delighted that MortonH (the name sounds familiar!) enjoyed the same display from the same general area (small world it is). It was a magnificent period of auroral activity over Scotland.
We should all look forward (as I am) to the coming solar max for another round of auroral activity visible from southern Australia. Infected with the "aurora bug" I'll be out there waiting eagerly for the aurora australis to light up our skies (apologies to the deep sky observers of this forum!). With better and faster digital equipment on hand I'm hoping that I can get comparable results.
wow stunning
