Aurora developing nicely
We only saw the lights for a few minutes, but they were coming on nicely here! I changed the exposure in processing, but didn't slide up the vibrance or saturation. Though with a long exposure the colours look brighter in a pic than to the naked eye. But we did see them move around - in Inuit legend Aurora are the feet of dancing spirits.
You can see the stars have moved a little during the exposure, on the left at least (in the middle of the image the stars are closer to the north so moved less in relation to the camera, on the extreme right the stars have moved opposite to the left hand side). The lens was 24mm focal length, by the 500 rule I should have exposed no more than 20 seconds to stop the stars, instead I did a 30 second exposure with relatively low ISO. Should have listened more carefully to our friend Charlie who gave the correct advice! But at least the galaxy Andromeda does show up, its the smudgy 'star' between the trees above the brightest part of the lights, about half way up the photo. The solar wind that produced the lights started at the sun 18 hours ago; the light from Andromeda shone 2.5 million years ago.
Aurora developing nicely
We only saw the lights for a few minutes, but they were coming on nicely here! I changed the exposure in processing, but didn't slide up the vibrance or saturation. Though with a long exposure the colours look brighter in a pic than to the naked eye. But we did see them move around - in Inuit legend Aurora are the feet of dancing spirits.
You can see the stars have moved a little during the exposure, on the left at least (in the middle of the image the stars are closer to the north so moved less in relation to the camera, on the extreme right the stars have moved opposite to the left hand side). The lens was 24mm focal length, by the 500 rule I should have exposed no more than 20 seconds to stop the stars, instead I did a 30 second exposure with relatively low ISO. Should have listened more carefully to our friend Charlie who gave the correct advice! But at least the galaxy Andromeda does show up, its the smudgy 'star' between the trees above the brightest part of the lights, about half way up the photo. The solar wind that produced the lights started at the sun 18 hours ago; the light from Andromeda shone 2.5 million years ago.