orion

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.