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Old 07-11-2021, 09:24 PM
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Southern Lights

Enjoying last Thursday's Kp=7 storm from our Bortle 1 site on the Lammermoor Range.
Here's a realtime video.
We didn't get much deepsky observing done that night. This was basically an all-night event - the longest Aurora I've seen to date.
6D/6Da with Sig 14 f/1.8 and the Nifty Fifty, respectively
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Old 07-11-2021, 10:26 PM
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Awesome images of what must have been a spectacular display down your way, the colours are brilliant. How was it visually compared to photographically.
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Old 07-11-2021, 11:11 PM
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First one is a wallhanger!! Stunning
Second, well that's a new phone background


How incredible. Thanks for sharing.
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Old 08-11-2021, 07:17 AM
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Stunning composition Mirko. Beautiful work.
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Old 08-11-2021, 06:34 PM
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Thanks guys. I can report that essentially all of its shape was visible to the eye. The photos show this quite well, since the Milky Way is behind the aurora and would have been easily visible even at that low altitude. The aurora was brighter. Discernible colours were green and, to a lesser extent, red. The purple and blue parts appeared grey. There were pulsations in this one too, and I'll try to get a slightly better quality out of the videos to show this. Also the display at times went considerably higher than in these two photos, topping out at what we estimated to be about 70°. None that I'd seen from here since 2012 went that high.
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Old 09-11-2021, 04:52 PM
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Great pics .Much appreciated by those of us at lower latitudes.
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Old 09-11-2021, 07:36 PM
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Thanks Derek.
Have added 2 more images below for context. The first one shows the aurora in progress at dusk. The second shows it near its greatest extent in altitude. The lens' FoV calculates to 104°, so something close to 90°, especially towards the top right corner, would not seem unreasonable. It wasn't quite that high to the unaided eye during that phase.
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