Re: [APML] Aurora!!

["Jim Ives" <flyboy9990@earthlink.net>]

WOW! Those are fantastic!
My view of them was certianly not that colorful!
Jim Ives
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Glagola" <glagola@aps.anl.gov>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] Aurora!!


> I was out shooting both Thursday and Saturday night last week and saw
> the aurora on both nights from Norther Illinois.  Thursday's display
> was even brighter and more structured than Saturday.  The shots on the
> web-site were actually taken about 12:30 am on Friday, Sept. 6.  Some
> small snapshots are available at :
>
> http://www.enteract.com/~glagola/aurora962002.html
>
> It was quite a site.  On Thursday I was torn between trying to shoot
> the aurora or deep sky objects and removed the camera from the back of
> the scope a couple of times to take aurora pictures.  Unfortunately I
> did not have a separate tripod for the camera (one more thing to pack
> in the future, plus an extra camera body).  I ended up putting the
> camera on an equipment case on top of a small ladder I had with me.
> The tripod went out Saturday night but I have not had the time to scan
> any of the aurora images from Saturday night.
>
> Bruce
>
> Chris & Jennifer Cook wrote:
> >
> > 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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