It was a little chilly at lunchtime, but at least I saw some wintry rainbows.
Solstice sundogs
brrr
The late show
About midnight last night, after I got home from getting half an hour of chilly star trails (and charged up the batteries the cold killed), I checked the space-weather app on my phone. It told me I had a strong chance of seeing some aurora if I left like right now.
So I did, and between about 12:15 and 1 AM, I got almost 400 photos of northern lights.
And I made all 393 photos into a 30-second timelapse, too. (Every second of video represents a minute of real time.)
Nerdy details: each photo is a 5‑second exposure, 11mm, f/2.8, ISO 1600. The photos were edited for brightness/contrast; the frames in the video are all straight-out-of-camera.
Frosty porch windows
OK, so maybe I had to call a tow truck this morning to get our car started, and maybe the car’s in the shop right now getting its battery replaced.
But doesn’t beauty like this make up for it all?
Not really, if I’m honest. Bring on summer.