Re: [APML] Aurora images posted

["Stan Richard" <stanrichard@hotmail.com>]

Tony, great you got the lights too, thanks for posting the images.

Stan Richard
Events in the Night Sky
www.nightskyevents.com



>From: "Tony Hallas" <tonyhallas@foothill.net>
>Reply-To: astro-photo@seds.org
>To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
>Subject: Re: [APML] Aurora images posted
>Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:11:09 -0800
>
>Hello,
>
>     Last night's aurora has to be  one of the most spectacular things I 
>have ever seen... remember I am a California person so this is a very 
>special event for us. Luckily I had some fast film on hand in anticipation 
>of the Leonids and went flying around the house trying to round up tripod 
>and camera...
>I was able to image the beginning of the display at 6:45 and the surge of 
>green at 7:45 and just before the moon came up I got a shot of the house 
>and observatory. The aurora changed a lot during this time... most of the 
>time it was just a "glow" but there were two episodes of white rays flying 
>all over the place and a huge section of green seemed to cut off from the 
>main body and migrate over the horizon to the NE.
>One of the images posted captures the trail that it left. On this image 
>also notice that the aurora was so bright it lit up the forest!
>
>       The images are at:  http://www.astrophoto.com/Aurora.htm
>
>      Once again, despite our best efforts, the brilliant reds, magentas, 
>and lime greens seem to loose some of their brilliance once posted... but 
>you can get an idea. This is a page on which you will find (hopefully) 
>three images.
>
>     Have a good one,
>
>          Tony


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