Very Early One Morning
Unable to sleep following the disaster with my camera earlier in the evening (see previous upload), I kept looking out the window, watching the aurora dancing above Broadford Bay. At 4 am, Cassiopeia was due north in the sky, and remembered that the Milky Way runs through Cassiopeia. I found my old 6D camera and the 14mm lens I use for astrophotography and quietly crept out of the house to avoid disturbing my mammalian housemates, and went back to the seashore with my hated tripod. I thought I might try to capture the aurora and Milky Way together - my old 6D has a dodgy shutter but works fine with the long exposures I use for astrophotography. The big green arc that I had seen earlier was mostly gone at this point, but there were now strong pink and red colours. The aurora was so bright that it blew out the lower part of the Milky Way, but got a better capture higher up in the sky. The image was produced using nine shots combined in Sequator.
Very Early One Morning
Unable to sleep following the disaster with my camera earlier in the evening (see previous upload), I kept looking out the window, watching the aurora dancing above Broadford Bay. At 4 am, Cassiopeia was due north in the sky, and remembered that the Milky Way runs through Cassiopeia. I found my old 6D camera and the 14mm lens I use for astrophotography and quietly crept out of the house to avoid disturbing my mammalian housemates, and went back to the seashore with my hated tripod. I thought I might try to capture the aurora and Milky Way together - my old 6D has a dodgy shutter but works fine with the long exposures I use for astrophotography. The big green arc that I had seen earlier was mostly gone at this point, but there were now strong pink and red colours. The aurora was so bright that it blew out the lower part of the Milky Way, but got a better capture higher up in the sky. The image was produced using nine shots combined in Sequator.