First Aurora for me

[zenith (Tim)]

Went to the You Yangs Regional park last night and got an unexpected surprise. No notification on my Aurora phone app, just pulled over on the way home to take a photo of an old ruined building and saw something in the sky! The strong bands only lasted about 5 minutes (from when I first saw them), but the glow is in a lot of my photos spanning a few hours.
First 2 pictures are 1am Sunday 16/8, last picture earlier at 10:30pm Saturday 15/8.

[Atmos (Colin)]

I am really jealous! Nicely done

[Regulus (Trevor)]

It's a bit exciting when you get one. Every time I have had alerts this past 8 months, the clouds rolled in. very frustrating.
Such a shame about the city lights, without them it would have looked stronger.
Still, well done.

Trevor

[zenith (Tim)]

It was the first time I'd been there at night and didn't realize how close it is to Geelong. Earlier in the night I did a 2 shot panorama with the city at the bottom and in the 3" LCD screen thought that the glow was just city lights!

[Somnium (Aidan)]

great stuff and well captured. Something we don't get up in Sydney, i would love to see it.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Great work Tim!

Nice catch.

Cheers,

Justin

[gregbradley]

Lucky bugger. Nice work.

Greg.

[matt34 (Matt)]

Well done especially with the geelong lights. Where is the old ruins? I did some scouting out that way a while ago. Always thought the lights of geelong might get in the way

[zenith (Tim)]

This is only a few kms from the main gate towards Melbourne/Little River, just sitting in a farmers front paddock. I was standing right up against his barbed-wire fence with a single electric wire in there as well.
You Yangs is ok but if you want dark skies just as close to Melbourne, Cape Schanck is better. I was after some nice rocks in the foreground on this trip but mainly got Geelong glow.