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At the last minute we realized that we were staying near Crater Lake at exactly the right time for the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. This was great stroke of luck, if the wildfire smoke (or regular old clouds) didn't interfere with visibility. The night we arrived at the motel we went out in grass after the moon set to see what we could see -- there were a couple meteors but the motel had too much security lighting to make it ideal.
The peak was going to be as close as possible to dawn on the 12th, the night after our first day in the park. When we came back from the park we asked one of the friendly hosts at the motel if she could recommend a spot nearby. Given the smoke conditions it seemed more promising to stay in Fort Klamath rather than drive back to the park (and also much more convenient). Dawn wasn't until after 6am but the beginning of "astronomical twilight" was at about 4:10am according to some web site I found. So we set the alarm for 3am. We headed 5 minutes across town to a pullout on the side of the road with grazing land on either side.
Pretty quickly I started noticing a red cast on part of the sky on the camera LCD when I took these longer exposures. You couldn't see it with the naked eye. With smoke on my mind, I was wondering if it was somehow due to smoke on the horizon, or light pollution (but from where?). It wasn't until the next night, when we went into the park at night for a stargazing ranger program, that we realized that it was the northern lights!
We were successful in seeing way more meteors over the course of about an hour than I've ever seen before, by far. The camera manages to be sensitive to even more -- I believe there are 6 in this 30 second exposure.
This is the ongoing documentation of waking up at 6:00 AM, taken with my cell phone (lo-fi and hence grainy), Phoebe in my arms and what position we are in when the alarm goes off.