Massive Aurora!!!!! with Photos!

[traveller (Bo)]

Wow, great stuff Ken. Unfortunately, south is the city from where I live. Make sure you have that showing during the March Camp!
Bo

[rogerg (Roger)]

Great stuff Ken Would have been awesome to see in person

This is my best from last night in Perth, the aurora is the little bit of bright pink bottom left, in case you miss it :
http://www.rogergroom.com/items/auro...rch_2012_perth

[aijii (Australia)]

to the melbournites, where were y'all when you saw this ?

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Thanks everyone.

It was an exciting night.
The clouds rolled in and ended the show but I was entertained plenty by then.

Originally Posted by stardust steve

Were they as bright with the naked eye as in the images?

Steve, it was an absolutely beautiful sight to see. The whole area of the sky turned Pink, then some brighter rays started to appear over the next few minutes, then they just kept growing and changing, as one would start to fade another would brighten. There was a show of Green across the bottom, but in the images it looks a pale Yellow.

The Aurora was not quite as bright as in the images, but still quite easy to see by eye. That's how I knew when to start imaging, when I saw it.

I rang Cheryl, and her and my son raced out to have a look and they said they could see it. And that was with no dark adaption, so it gives an example of how easy it was to see.

I hope we get more. It is a stunning sight.
Next year is suppose to be a lot more active than this year

The technical: Canon 350d, 800 iso, 30 seconds exposure. 75% Moon. Dark location.

[Suzy]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

You lucky lucky lucky lucky buggas.
Thanks for sharing, it's amazing.

Yeah- what she said!

Super dooper UBER awesomeness.

Even tho I'm soooo jealous I'm very happy for you that you caught this amazing event and thanks heaps for sharing the pics, very much enjoying them.

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

I was out testing an EP just on moonrise last night. Looking to the south I thought the sky looked brighter than normal and the views were a bit washed out. I just thought it was moonage and LP as normal but it was a little unusual so I going to count that as "possible" aurora observation!!

Malcolm

[Paddy (Patrick)]

Oh, envy or what!!! I've been out looking but last night we had so much smoke from a 500 ha prescribed burn down the road that I could hardly see Crux! I am greener than any aurora! Nice pics Ken and I hope you get some more. Amazing to get colour - I've only seen them in greyscale the times we've had them visible from home. Can you organise some more for the camp?

[bartman (Bart)]

Awesome Ken,
I had a look last night but didnt have much luck.

Originally Posted by rogerg

Great stuff Ken Would have been awesome to see in person

This is my best from last night in Perth, the aurora is the little bit of bright pink bottom left, in case you miss it :
http://www.rogergroom.com/items/auro...rch_2012_perth

Yeah there was a bit of cloud and haze around not to mention a bit of smoke from some of the fires around.....
Bratman

[acropolite (Phil)]

Bummer, I looked outside at around 10:30 and saw nothing so I assumed it wasn't going to happen. Never mind there will be more.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by acropolite

Bummer, I looked outside at around 10:30 and saw nothing so I assumed it wasn't going to happen.

Phil! You should know better than that

[multiweb (Marc)]

That looks great Ken. I can feel the excitement in your posts. You've been looking for them and you've nailed it. Well done.

[Jen]

Good on ya Ken glad you got some pics woohooo

Now order some more of that for camp please

[erick (Eric)]

Marvelous, Ken.

[acropolite (Phil)]

Originally Posted by ken

Phil! You should know better than that

Yeah, I got caught like that a few years ago as well when the Aurora kicked in around midnight. It certainly is awe inspiring to see so much colour.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by rogerg

Great stuff Ken Would have been awesome to see in person

This is my best from last night in Perth, the aurora is the little bit of bright pink bottom left, in case you miss it :
http://www.rogergroom.com/items/auro...rch_2012_perth

Ahhhh yes, but Roger, you made up for it the other night with your spectacular shot

[danielsun]

That's awesome Ken! I was out having a binocular visual last night but missed out the night before I am amazed that it was so high up latitude wise and didn't think we would ever get to see one.
Great stuff Ken, I sure hope I get to see one one day.

Cheers Daniel.

[risingmoon (Sandra)]

So breathtakingly beautiful

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by risingmoon

So breathtakingly beautiful

Thanks Sandra.

First time I've ever photographed Aurora.
Pretty exciting
3rd time I've seen it in my whole life.
Once as a child in Sydney, once as a Teenager in Sydney, and now as a 55 year old here in Victoria
I don't count the small sighting 3 years ago as I'm not 100% sure it was an Aurora. It was tiny and light grey.

[mill (Martin)]

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

Thanks Sandra.

First time I've ever photographed Aurora.
Pretty exciting
3rd time I've seen it in my whole life.
Once as a child in Sydney, once as a Teenager in Sydney, and now as a 55 year old here in Victoria
I don't count the small sighting 3 years ago as I'm not 100% sure it was an Aurora. It was tiny and light grey.

Ken we did see it at the footy oval in Snake Valley some years ago from the room at the second floor.
Some photo's were taken but i never seen those

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by mill

Ken we did see it at the footy oval in Snake Valley some years ago from the room at the second floor.
Some photo's were taken but i never seen those

Ahhhh OK, thanks Martin.
All I remember was that there was You, me, Bryan and I think Eric still there when we saw it, but I couldn't be sure if it was real or not.
My memory is going
I think Bryan, me, and someone else was down on the observing field at the time and Bryan pointed it out.