Re: [APML] Aurora!!

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

Joe -
I look forward to seeing the shots.  I would've taking my film in today but
the lab I use is closed on Sunday.... :-(

After the early display, it flared up again around 1am ish.  Not as bright
but still some smaller and fainter rays and pillars.  All was quite by
around 2:30am.

Chris


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-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph/Leslie Schaefer <schaefer@htva.net>
To: astro-photo@seds.org <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Sunday, September 08, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] Aurora!!


>Hi Chris,
> This was the first Aurora I've seen and it was quite a show!!! Some of the
>flares stretched close to the meridian and to me
>looked pink and red with some light green. I had Kodak E200 loaded in my
>camera so I tried shooting some with a 24mm lens stopped down two f/stops.
>Not knowing what the exposures should be I tried several from 30 sec. to 2
>minutes. I'm hoping I get something from them. I am located 20 miles south
>of Ithaca NY @ 42.6N.
>
> Joe.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Chris & Jennifer Cook <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
>To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
>Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:05 PM
>Subject: [APML] Aurora!!
>
>
>> It just got dark here on the east coast(Cape Cod, MA) and the whole
>northern
>> half of the sky is very, very bright.  Looks like faint green.  Get out
>and
>> look if you got clear skies!  I'm at 41.5N.
>>
>> I got the Fuji 800 going through the camera.
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> ==================
>> Chris Cook
>> Astronomical Photography
>> www.abmedia.com/astro
>>
>>
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