Aurora and clouds, Oct. 10–11, 2024

Posted on by Patrick
The aurora trying to peek through the clouds, red and green

It was clear to the west, so I grabbed my cam­era and took a chance.

It was not clear to the north.

The aurora trying to peek through the clouds,a patch of very bright green
The aurora trying to peek through the clouds, red and gree
The aurora trying to peek through the clouds, red and green
The aurora trying to peek through the clouds, a long shaft of green
The aurora trying to peek through the clouds, a glimpse of a green curtain
The aurora trying to peek through the clouds, a loop of green

Once I got home, the sky to the east was clear. I set up a cam­era in our spare room, aimed due east, and let it click until the bat­ter­ies died. Between 11:30pm and 2:30am it got these gems, plucked from almost 2000 frames.

Brilliant aurora: clouds of red and shafts of green above the trees
Brilliant aurora: curtains of brilliant green above the trees
Brilliant aurora: shafts of green above the trees

These pho­tos, I have to keep remind­ing myself, were tak­en inside the city. Nor­mal­ly I’m hap­py when I get light like this a few kilo­me­tres out of town, where it’s start­ing to get prop­er­ly dark. These auro­ra were com­pet­ing with street­lights, and winning.

Oh yeah, I also turned the 2000ish pho­tos from the spare room into a timelapse.

Inter­est­ed in prints of my pho­tos? Let me know, and we can work some­thing out.