Capture: Aurora Australis
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I'm kind of speechless looking at these pictures. Emotional, even. Thank you, guys.
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Ian has put together a time lapse of his photos already.
Amazeballs!
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Awesome photos and video. And there may be more tonight?
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Awesome photos, thanks...
I have yet to witness this phenomena myself, but so wish to do so some time...
TV news said it was visible as far north as Auckland last night? I wish I'd have known to look :(
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WOWWW. How does it feel to be under a sky like that?
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Wow! Thanks, intrepid photographers. Rain and overcast in Chch area, so didn't even go outside to look. But I will tonight!
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Those are amazing photos guys. I'm very jealous.
Is there an app for that?
Seriously how do you monitor when to expect a good aurora? I'd really love to be able to know enough in advance to hop on a plane and see one.
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Magnificent.
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Even better large like this. Incredible. Thank you for staying up and sharing.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Seriously how do you monitor when to expect a good aurora?
Director of Light Entertainment…
Here are the fluor-essentials…
:- )http://www.spaceweather.com/
have email ‘spaceweather alerts’
or just checking there each day for solar events heading our way gives you a bit of lead time to get out to a dark-night area.
also
http://www.aurora-service.net/aurora-forecast/Spectacular as these are, this large light show indicates how fragile our ‘electromagnetic-based culture’ is – an X3 flare or higher could cripple us and our puny devices – an earlier event in the week interrupted radio communications in the Pacific, who knows if that affected the preparedness of those in Vanuatu facing a large terrestrial storm…
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
I’m kind of speechless looking at these pictures. Emotional, even.
I had the same feelings looking at Blair Parkes' latest Beach Storm double exposures...
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Ian, a Carrington Event these days would simultaneously produce awesome Aurora and fry modern infrastructure.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I had the same feelings looking at Blair Parkes’ latest Beach Storm double exposures…
We do need to organise a Capture post from that man.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
Here are the fluor-essentials
Without yeast I'm not going to rise to that bait
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
St Elmo's fire...*
I love this bit:The atmosphere was so charged, however, that operators made an incredible discovery: They could unplug their batteries and still transmit messages to Portland, Maine, at 30- to 90-second intervals using only the auroral current.
Tesla, come in please...
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Without yeast I’m not going to rise...
I'm leaven well enough alone, too...
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WOW! Thanks so much for sharing this rare beauty.
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Lilith __, in reply to
How does it feel to be under a sky like that?
It's pretty amazing, but our eyes don't see colour very well in low light. With a bright aurora we can see a flickering lightness in part of the sky. Tip: look slightly away from where you expect the aurora to be, as peripheral vision is better than central vision at seeing in the dark.
I made my family go outside the other night and had to persuade them it was actually an aurora because they thought it would be brighter! <facepalm>
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JacksonP, in reply to
I’d really love to be able to know enough in advance to hop on a plane and see one.
I nabbed this from Paul's timeline, and he would know better how to interpret it.
From the Space Weather Prediction Center.
I was thinking the same thing last night. Would certainly hop on a plane to see this first hand, if I had some advanced warning.
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This photo, taken on a good night last year, was my first aurora! This is a 15sec exposure. My naked eyes could only see a faint and rather magical dancing field of lightness. If I hadn't specifically been looking for it I wouldn't have noticed it. But I pointed the camera in vaguely the right direction, and the bright green appeared in the photo.
Seeing an aurora is an amazing experience, but it's amazing in a different way from looking at photographs.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Would certainly hop on a plane to see this first hand, if I had some advanced warning.
It gets cold down here, you know. ;-)
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PS WONDERFUL shots Ian and Paul, thanks for staying up all night so the rest of us could enjoy. :-)
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Wow, just wow. Nature is the most spectacular of things.
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Grant McDougall, in reply to
I had the same feelings looking at Blair Parkes’ latest Beach Storm double exposures…We do need to organise a Capture post from that man.
Would love to see one, please.
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JacksonP, in reply to
It gets cold down here, you know. ;-)
I'll wear a parka. ;-)
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