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

["Chris Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>]

Hi Brian -
It's a straight scan.

Chris

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Chris Cook
Astronomical & Nightscape Photography
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Larmay <astrobri@ameritech.net>
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Thursday, May 01, 2003 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] New images: Faint aurora? & lighthouse moonrise


>PS..
>
>Was that just a straight scan with the lighthouse, or was that a double
scan
>to bring out the foreground and then stacked?
>
>Brian
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
>To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
>Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 11:30 AM
>Subject: Re: [APML] New images: Faint aurora? & lighthouse moonrise
>
>
>> Thanks for the nice comments guys!
>>
>> The thing that was weird that night was after I closed the shutter, there
>> was a fairly bright pillar or spike directly under polaris that rose up
>> about 15deg or so.  At first I thought it was an aurora but it didn't
have
>> any color and there was only one. No brightening at the horizon, nothing.
>I
>> walked up a small hill nearby to get a unobstructed view to the north and
>> discovered there were some car headlights about a 1/2 mile away.  I just
>> figured that's what it was... now I guess it was a small auroral pillar!
>>
>> Dominic -  I was also out last night looking for a display but there was
>> nothing in my neck of the woods.  Guess it didn't make it down the extra
>> 5deg of latitude to 42N.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> ----------------------------------
>> Chris Cook
>> Astronomical & Nightscape Photography
>> www.abmedia.com/astro
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stan Richard <stanrichard@hotmail.com>
>> To: astro-photo@seds.org <astro-photo@seds.org>
>> Date: Thursday, May 01, 2003 10:56 AM
>> Subject: Re: [APML] New images: Faint aurora? & lighthouse moonrise
>>
>>
>> >Chris, a nice star trails photo with the red aurora in there.  What was
>the
>> >date on the shot, that should help determine for sure if it was aurora
or
>> >not.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Stan Richard
>> >Events in the Night Sky
>> >www.nightskyevents.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>From: "Chris Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
>> >>Reply-To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography <astro-photo@seds.org>
>> >>To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
>> >>Subject: [APML] New images: Faint aurora? & lighthouse moonrise
>> >>Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:00:20 -0400
>> >>
>> >>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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