Aurora night - 10th May 2024
A spectacular auroral display.
(Note that the pictures are much brighter and coloured than the naked eye view).
A click/tap to change image set featuring setting crescent moon.
This is looking almost overhead. You an make out the plough in the redness.
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Looking North.
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Looking North East.
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Looking East.
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For a while, you couldn't look anywhere without seeing aurora. Here's a 360 degree panorama.
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There is indeed a group of spots that look like they've been up to no good. If I had spots like that, I'd be off to the chemist for some cream.
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In all that time, I never really saw any colour in the aurora, with the naked eye, maybe just a hint of red in the brighter red bits. Twenty minutes after stopping taking pictures I was seeing far more colour, including the green in the lower sections. The main reason for this, I think, is the time it takes for the eye to become dark adapted. Spending 50 minutes outside, but regularly looking at a camera screen, is not a great way to let your eyes become dark adapted. So I had to wait 15 or so minutes without looking into the camera before I got the best naked eye views.
On a similar topic, I have had discussions regarding the prevalence of red in many photographic images, where a bit of green might be expected. Not sure why this might be, unless there was not actually much green there. But I noticed it on my one mobile phone image.
By 1am on the 11th May, the Aurora had turned in proper Northern Lights, i.e. they were only to be seen in the north. So I went to bed. I happened to wake up at 2:30, and noticed they seemed to have bucked up a bit, so I took a picture through the bedroom window with my phone camera in night mode. You can see a much reduced version on the left of the image below. Much reddishness, no green.
Bizarrely, I happened to be awake at 2:30 on the 12th May, so I took a reference image, just to make sure my phone camera was not always filling the night sky with red. This image is on the right.
Remember, you can see the best images from previous years in earlier posts on this blog.
10th May 2024.
Some pictures of the most spectacular auroral display I've seen.(Note that the pictures are much brighter and coloured than the naked eye view).
A click/tap to change image set featuring setting crescent moon.
This is looking almost overhead. You an make out the plough in the redness.
(Click/Tap the image to go to a better resolution version)
Looking North.
(Click/Tap the image to go to a better resolution version)
Looking North East.
(Click/Tap the image to go to a better resolution version)
Looking East.
(Click/Tap the image to go to a better resolution version)
For a while, you couldn't look anywhere without seeing aurora. Here's a 360 degree panorama.
(Click/Tap the image to go to a better resolution version)
11th May 2024.
With northern lights like the ones last night, things have been happening on the Sun. So I had a look at it on the 11th.There is indeed a group of spots that look like they've been up to no good. If I had spots like that, I'd be off to the chemist for some cream.
(Click/Tap the image to go to a better resolution version)
12th May 2024.
One last thing before I leave this topic. All the pictures above, from the 10th May, were taken between 11 and midnight. By that time I had enough pictures and stopped taking them.In all that time, I never really saw any colour in the aurora, with the naked eye, maybe just a hint of red in the brighter red bits. Twenty minutes after stopping taking pictures I was seeing far more colour, including the green in the lower sections. The main reason for this, I think, is the time it takes for the eye to become dark adapted. Spending 50 minutes outside, but regularly looking at a camera screen, is not a great way to let your eyes become dark adapted. So I had to wait 15 or so minutes without looking into the camera before I got the best naked eye views.
On a similar topic, I have had discussions regarding the prevalence of red in many photographic images, where a bit of green might be expected. Not sure why this might be, unless there was not actually much green there. But I noticed it on my one mobile phone image.
By 1am on the 11th May, the Aurora had turned in proper Northern Lights, i.e. they were only to be seen in the north. So I went to bed. I happened to wake up at 2:30, and noticed they seemed to have bucked up a bit, so I took a picture through the bedroom window with my phone camera in night mode. You can see a much reduced version on the left of the image below. Much reddishness, no green.
Bizarrely, I happened to be awake at 2:30 on the 12th May, so I took a reference image, just to make sure my phone camera was not always filling the night sky with red. This image is on the right.
That's the end of the May Aurora images.
Remember, you can see the best images from previous years in earlier posts on this blog.
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