Re: [APML] Halloween aurora !

[George Anderson <georgea@cam.org>]

WOW!
Really nice Dominic, your shots have pretty much convinced me that I'll
have to get one of the russian 16mm lenses. Also you are right about the
fuji 800 becoming my favorite film for aurora shots. I found the supra
400 that I shot at LaVerendrie in September 2002 was just too slow, same
with the Fuji 400 that I used in November 2001. The 800 comes back with
nicely dense negatives after 20 seconds at 2.8.
We were totally clouded over by 9:00pm Montreal time that night, and by
10:00 it was back to the rain we had all week.
Wednesday night we could make out flickering lights through the heavy
cloud.
Here is a big hope, how about an aurora next sunday (Nov 9) during the
lunar eclipse, should make for some interesting shots to have both the
moon and the aurora correctly exposed.
Did you buy the fisheye here or in the states, and what was the price
like?

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health

Dominic Cantin wrote:
> 
> Hi all !
> 
> Thansk to all for sharing your beautiful pictures of this magnetic
> storm !
> 
> I put 16 images in my STD gallery from the 31 october aurora here's
> the link http://www.spacew.com/gallery/image002013.html . I copy and
> paste my report from that night :
> 
> Overcast was the story of this very active week ( 26 to 31 october
> 2003 ) but I had a break of ~ 3 hours in clouds , when I arrived at
> l'Ile d'Orléans ( 30km east of Quebec city ) a moderate aurora was
> there but ½ later , at 5:45 UT 31 oct. 203 the aurora became very
> intense and filed the entire sky and I saw beautiful corona with fast
> movements and fast changing in shapes. A beautiful magnetic storm for
> ½ hour is extraordinary after 5 days overcast ! A special way to begin
> the Halloween day :) btw : my friend Jean Chiasson
> http://www.spacew.com/gallery/JeanChiasson and Daniel Tardif
> http://www.spacew.com/gallery/DanielTardif arrived 1½ hour before me
> and they saw a red corona show before I arrive !
> 
> 
> 
> Dominic Cantin
> 
> http://skyphoto.homestead.com
> 
> http://spacew.com/gallery/DominicCantin
> 
> dominiccantin@yahoo.ca
> 
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