Brilliant. After assuming it was going to be cloudy all night, I looked
out after midnight and it had cleared. Bands of green were stretching
right across from east to west. As I watched, intense reds developed,
and a corona (?). I've tried to capture the show as far as is possible
with a camera.

Canon S50, f2.8, ISO 200, 15 secs

Http://home.clara.net/ra.evans/aurora/index.html

and yes, it was that bright!!

this links to a thumbnail index. The larger images are uncompressed
jpegs to keep pixellation to a minimum, but they are only 500 x 375 so
shouldn't take too long for those, like me, who don't have the luxury of
broadband.....
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North Cumbria
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:26:44 +0000, Anita Evans in
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Brilliant. After assuming it was going to be cloudy all night, I looked
out after midnight and it had cleared. Bands of green were stretching
right across from east to west. As I watched, intense reds developed,
and a corona (?). I've tried to capture the show as far as is possible
with a camera.

Canon S50, f2.8, ISO 200, 15 secs

Http://home.clara.net/ra.evans/aurora/index.html

and yes, it was that bright!!

Excellent Anita. I'll have to change my film speed to 200 tonight, as
there may well be a repeat, going by the various monitoring websites.

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Excellent Anita. I'll have to change my film speed to 200 tonight, as
there may well be a repeat, going by the various monitoring websites.

First time I've used the digital at night and I'm well impressed with
it. I forgot to mention that none of the red/orange glow is from street
lights.
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:26:44 +0000, Anita Evans
wrote:

Brilliant. After assuming it was going to be cloudy all night, I looked
out after midnight and it had cleared. Bands of green were stretching
right across from east to west. As I watched, intense reds developed,
and a corona (?). I've tried to capture the show as far as is possible
with a camera.

Canon S50, f2.8, ISO 200, 15 secs

Http://home.clara.net/ra.evans/aurora/index.html

and yes, it was that bright!!

this links to a thumbnail index. The larger images are uncompressed
jpegs to keep pixellation to a minimum, but they are only 500 x 375 so
shouldn't take too long for those, like me, who don't have the luxury of
broadband.....


Excellent. Like you, I had given up hope of seeing anything last
night, but I went out just after midnight. There was a bright
searchlight effect to the west, with the pink directly overhead! Not
as bright as yours, but then I probably have a lot more light
pollution

Paul
Troon


















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Paul