Aurora from my upstairs window

Aurora above the city lights

The auro­ra data were good last night, but I’d had a long day so I did­n’t go out in the coun­try­side last night. I did set up a cam­era in the spare room, in case it got bright enough to be seen over the city lights. At worst, I thought, I’d get a few hours’ worth of star trails.

Oh, and the star trails turned out OK, too.

4½ hours worth of star trails

I set up the cam­era around mid­night; the bat­tery final­ly died around 4:35am. The trails above are made from about 2,200 frames, each 5 sec­onds, f/2.8, ISO 800.

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