Re: [APML] Quebec Aurora

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

Holy cow...!....Sagittarius being covered by an aurora?  That must have been
some show up there!
Nice shooting.

Chris


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Chris Cook
Astronomical Photography
www.abmedia.com/astro


-----Original Message-----
From: George Anderson <georgea@cam.org>
To: APML <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 10:33 PM
Subject: [APML] Quebec Aurora


>Saturday night myself and about 30 others drove to a dark sky site about
>4.5 hours north west of Montreal. The site is an inactive runway in the
>La Verendrye Park and most had gone up to do some deep sky observing
>while I planned on trying to get some widefield shots that were not in
>the oblong blob catagory.
>The shots were on Supra 400 with a 28mm lens at f/3.5 and the prints
>were scanned with a flatbed scanner at work (my sprintscan should arrive
>this week) which I have discovered someone has gotten a fingerprint on
>the inside of the glass plate.
>Results can be seen at http://www.cam.org/~georgea/Aurora.htm
>The negatives are very much on the thin side, I hadn't realised how much
>the light pollution from home helped sensitize the film on my exposures
>last November 5th.
>Longer exposures would have resulted in much greater blurring of the
>auroral light. So although ISO 400 was good from removed
>suburban/semi-rural house last year, I would go with ISO 800 when
>shooting from a dark site.
>
>George Anderson
>St. Lazare Quebec
>
>Clear skies and good health
>
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