ASTRO: 09-22-09 Aurora

Big and bright but mostly featureless. What features I do see are
moving very fast.

I only have my wife's simple camera she uses for her business and it is
not suited for this type of photography.

I've reduced them mainly due to high noise content. Note what little
features you see in the second and third images has moved considerably
yet they were taken as close together as the camera allows (about 15
seconds as I somehow turned on the delay feature and can't figure out
how to turn it off.

That's Cassiopeia in the first images upper left) and the handle of the
big dipper in the last one. I couldn't find the tripod so had to prop
it up on the deck meaning I couldn't point it very high up. At one time
the aurora extended to within about 30 degrees of the southern horizon
but had retreated greatly by the time of the first shot which is pointed
at about 80 degrees azimuth (0 north)

Rick


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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Oops, its July not September.
Rick

Rick Johnson wrote:
Big and bright but mostly featureless. What features I do see are
moving very fast.

I only have my wife's simple camera she uses for her business and it is
not suited for this type of photography.

I've reduced them mainly due to high noise content. Note what little
features you see in the second and third images has moved considerably
yet they were taken as close together as the camera allows (about 15
seconds as I somehow turned on the delay feature and can't figure out
how to turn it off.

That's Cassiopeia in the first images upper left) and the handle of the
big dipper in the last one. I couldn't find the tripod so had to prop
it up on the deck meaning I couldn't point it very high up. At one time
the aurora extended to within about 30 degrees of the southern horizon
but had retreated greatly by the time of the first shot which is pointed
at about 80 degrees azimuth (0 north)

Rick


--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Rick Johnson wrote in
ster.com:

Oops, its July not September.
Rick

Rick Johnson wrote:
Big and bright but mostly featureless. What features I do see are
moving very fast.

I only have my wife's simple camera she uses for her business and it
is not suited for this type of photography.

I've reduced them mainly due to high noise content. Note what little
features you see in the second and third images has moved
considerably yet they were taken as close together as the camera
allows (about 15 seconds as I somehow turned on the delay feature and
can't figure out how to turn it off.

That's Cassiopeia in the first images upper left) and the handle of
the big dipper in the last one. I couldn't find the tripod so had to
prop it up on the deck meaning I couldn't point it very high up. At
one time the aurora extended to within about 30 degrees of the
southern horizon but had retreated greatly by the time of the first
shot which is pointed at about 80 degrees azimuth (0 north)

Rick



Darn, I was going to free up my schedule and head out to get some shots of
that myself! It would be nice to have such advance notice of these events.

ergonaut wrote:
Rick Johnson wrote in
ster.com:

Oops, its July not September.
Rick

Rick Johnson wrote:
Big and bright but mostly featureless. What features I do see are
moving very fast.

I only have my wife's simple camera she uses for her business and it
is not suited for this type of photography.

I've reduced them mainly due to high noise content. Note what little
features you see in the second and third images has moved
considerably yet they were taken as close together as the camera
allows (about 15 seconds as I somehow turned on the delay feature and
can't figure out how to turn it off.

That's Cassiopeia in the first images upper left) and the handle of
the big dipper in the last one. I couldn't find the tripod so had to
prop it up on the deck meaning I couldn't point it very high up. At
one time the aurora extended to within about 30 degrees of the
southern horizon but had retreated greatly by the time of the first
shot which is pointed at about 80 degrees azimuth (0 north)

Rick



Darn, I was going to free up my schedule and head out to get some shots of
that myself! It would be nice to have such advance notice of these events.


I do photometric work for a professional astronomer who wants dates in
the year/month/day format. Sometimes this is the result. My brain
doesn't switch as easily as it did a half century ago.

Rick

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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".