Re: [APML] New images: Faint aurora? & lighthouse moonrise

["John Boudreau" <jeboud@attbi.com>]

> I didn't see any sign of an aurora visually.  Any thoughts on this?  Am I
> correct to assume its an aurora?

Airborne Red Tide maybe ? <g>.
Looks like an auroral glow to me.

> Also, here a "snapshot" of another lighthouse on the Cape, this one with the
> full Moon.

Yet another fine lighthouse pic Chris!
I've been thinking of photographing some New England coastal scenes this year. There's probably some lighthouse pics in my future too ;)
And they can be photographed when it's cloudy too!!!

John Boudreau
http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/astro.htm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 11:00 PM
Subject: [APML] New images: Faint aurora? & lighthouse moonrise


> Hi all -
> 
> While waiting for the larger summer targets, I managed an evening out in the
> National Seashore last month doing star trails in which I think I captured a
> very faint aurora.  The reason I think its an aurora is.
> 1.) LP is usually recorded as yellow or greenish white not reddish/orange.
> 2.) The exposure was started after the end of astronomical twilight ended so
> its not the last remnants of twilight.
> 3.) From the site this was taken at and the direction the shot is pointing,
> there are no towns for over 300+miles, it is just open ocean, the nearest
> town would be somewhere near the central Maine coast.  The small town of
> Provincetown on the tip of the Cape is located off to the left side of the
> frame.....
> I didn't see any sign of an aurora visually.  Any thoughts on this?  Am I
> correct to assume its an aurora?
> 
> URL:  http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/seashore-polartrails.html
> 
> Also, here a "snapshot" of another lighthouse on the Cape, this one with the
> full Moon.  Those interested in art and the painter Edward Hopper should
> recognize it.
> 
> URL:  http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/stageharbor-moon.html
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 
> Chris
> 
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