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

[Stuart Heggie <stuart.j.heggie@sympatico.ca>]

Chris, just like John Mirtle, those of us shooting from up here get this a lot.
Aurora is easily captured on film even though you cannot see it. Also, over the
course of that star trail, it could come and go and you might not have been
watching even if it had been visual.
Looks exactly like aurora to me for what it is worth.

Stuart

Chris Cook wrote:

> 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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