Part-time prevaricator
The aurora was everywhere. These photos are taken facing in all directions.
The top photo is a 7‑image panorama, facing due west. The photos of the trains passing are both facing south.
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Not even the full moon could overwhelm the northern lights tonight.
I shot until my batteries all died. I was glad I’d thought to grab a toque, but I would’ve appreciated heavier gloves, too.
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As I was going to bed last night, I took a look out the window. The forecast had said it was supposed to be partly cloudy overnight, but the sky looked pretty clear. I set up a camera in the spare room, pointed out the window, and let it snap away. I figured I’d get some star trails out of it if nothing else.
The aurora decided to make an appearance. It was just getting ramped up when my camera battery died around 2:30am, but I got a couple good shots out of it.
Oh, and the star trails turned out pretty good, too. They’re at the top, and are taken from about the first hour and a half of the evening.
The video below is the full two hours and thirty-six minutes, but it runs at 60x so that one second of video is one minute of real[1]Whatever that might mean, relativistically. time.
Footnotes
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Well, it happened again.
As usual, in the timelapse below, one second of video is one minute of real time.
Thanks, Neal, for showing me a new spot, and for hanging out in the dark with me for an hour or so.
I caught some more northern lights last night.
The brightest part of the show didn’t last very long, but I let my cameras snap away for a bit less than an hour, and put together a time-lapse video. One second of video is one minute of real time; there’s a cut about ¾ of the way through the video, from camera 1 to camera 2.
Yesterday was my birthday, and the sky was clear and the aurora data were pretty good. So about 10pm I hit the road, and got these photos about 15 minutes from my house.
Above: an 11-photo panorama stretching from west to east.
The stars were sharp and clear, too, in the cold air, so I snapped some photos of one of my favourite constellations, Orion.
And because my cameras were nice and still for most of the time, I have a minute or so of timelapse video for you. Each second of video is a minute of real time.
It was clear to the west, so I grabbed my camera and took a chance.
It was not clear to the north.
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.
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.
Were the northern lights out last night? Yes.
Was I out last night? Also yes.
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