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Originally Posted by Saturnine
Hope you have enjoyed the sight, only just saw this post Joe. Look forward to seeing some images , if you took any. After 2 weeks of mostly clear skies today we had a southerly change with accompanying cloud and intermittent rain showers here on the coast.
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Thanks Jeff,
Pity you didn't see it. IIS doesn't support push notifications so you have to look here. Nothing more I could do.
There were two events, one in progress from the end of astronomical twilight until about 9pm. It was visible to the naked eye with pink and red emission in blankets and pillars for about 20 mins from 19:50-20:10 EST.
A second weaker event started after 10pm and continued until midnight. I received a message from a friend who told me his granddaughter had a prediction for a third event at 4am, however I couldn't corroborate this. I dozed off in the lounge chair. When I woke up, the analogue wall clock was reading 2:20am. In my waking haze, I misread this as 4:10am. I went outside, the camera was still capturing but showing no activity. It had become cloudy so I went to bed. When I got into bed, I realised it was only 2:30am but I'd had enough for the night and went to sleep. I'm currently shifting my body clock to early to bed very early rise in readiness for comet Tsuchinshan's pre-dawn show over the next few weeks.
I captured 550 photos I need to to process. I'll post some in the Nightscape Photo Forum sometime today and render a T-L video later.
Here's one photo attached:
Camera:- Pentax K1 8s ISO 3200
Lens:- Pentax HD 28-105 ED DC WR 28mm @ f3.5
Location:- Young NSW
DATE-TIME:- 2024-09-12-19:59:35 UT
Cheers
Joe
