Re: [APML] Quebec Aurora

[Bruce Glagola <glagola@aps.anl.gov>]

George,

Your shots are quite stunning.  Great work!

Bruce


George Anderson wrote:
> 
> 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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