RE: [APML] Aurora pics NW New York

[John Mirtle <spampit@shaw.ca>]

Thanks Brian,
	Yes - there finally is a way to shoot through aurora! I am ready for
the next solar max. :-) I liked your aurora shot taken from under the hydro
tower. You have a bit more intestinal fortitude than I do! Do you recall
that an aurora outburst in late 1989 fried the Quebec hydro grid??? :-)

John Mirtle

-----Original Message-----
From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org] On
Behalf Of Brian larmay
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 9:05 PM
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
Subject: RE: [APML] Aurora pics NW New York


John, im amazed at what you have done there!
I mean....i know how you dislike aurora at times, but
you really finally found a way to beat the system
after all these years!

I bet your wishing you would have switched quite some
time ago;)

Take it easy and nice hearing from you again.

Thanks guys for the comments :D

Brian




> 	Great shots guys! The aurora was incredibly intense
> last night in
> southern Alberta, Canada. Figures, I was all set up
> to shoot first light
> with my ST-8Xe from Jim Janusz, the first clear
> weekend in 7 weeks! All I
> had with me was equipment to shoot a 1x1.5 degree
> field, so I wasn't able to
> shoot the aurora. It came out of nowhere, just after
> the clouds cleared out.
> Within a half hour, it covered the entire sky with a
> massive pulsing
> convergence in Coma.
> 
> 	It was a great chance to figure out technologies to
> combat aurora
> and I found one! If the aurora is pure green, a red
> filter should block it.
> This obviously wasn't green, going by all the
> wonderful images published
> today. My first shot through a red filter was toast.
> But, a 10nm
> hydrogen-alpha filter blocked it completely! I
> managed to get my first light
> image, even though I couldn't even see Cygnus at
> times. *warning* This is an
> off-topic image but I was rather stunned to be able
> to shoot this through
> the natural light pollution last night!
> 
> http://www.astrofoto.ca/john/gom-106.htm
> 
> John Mirtle
> Calgary, Ab. Canada
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
> [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org] On
> Behalf Of Scott Hammonds
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 4:11 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Film Astrophotography'
> Subject: RE: [APML] Aurora pics NW New York
> 
> Brian,
> Great shots and interesting compositions. Glad to
> see you getting some
> images.
> Scott 
> 
> 
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