Biggest solar storm in 19 years-- huge opportunity for auroras. Aim your cam North and let's see what can be captured... 
Point your PTZ's NORTH tonight....
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A guy capture some pics at Northest China
Sybertiger
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All I see are mosquitos.Biggest solar storm in 19 years-- huge opportunity for auroras. Aim your cam North and let's see what can be captured...
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A few pics of mine from tonight. Canon R6 camera with one of the cheapest lenses Canon makes-- 16mm F/2.8 lens (E-mount).
None of these photos are edited. Settings were varied a bit, but most often was 6 second exposure, from 400 to 1,000 ISO, F/2.8
This pic shows how much light it generated-- was brighter than a full moon! My daughter standing by my truck taking pics with her Samsung phone...
Looking up to see this.... amazing.
Looking WEST near the Oahe Dam...
Much earlier in the evening just after sunset, I was at the Hwy 212 bridge over the Missouri River (Lake Oahe)...
Twilight fading as Aurora takes over....
None of these photos are edited. Settings were varied a bit, but most often was 6 second exposure, from 400 to 1,000 ISO, F/2.8
This pic shows how much light it generated-- was brighter than a full moon! My daughter standing by my truck taking pics with her Samsung phone...
Looking up to see this.... amazing.
Looking WEST near the Oahe Dam...
Much earlier in the evening just after sunset, I was at the Hwy 212 bridge over the Missouri River (Lake Oahe)...
Twilight fading as Aurora takes over....
Flintstone61
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Flintstone61
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Northern lights 5/11/24 1:20 am
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Flintstone61
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nothing spectacular, captured and converted and played around with some time lapse settings to achieve a video....select 1440P on youtube
THANK YOU to all who posted these beautiful pictures!!
I got very little on my cam at home. I pointed North, but most of the show here stretched from East to West... When I got home, I changed the direction of my cam-- it has some aurora on it from about 2:30 on-- making a timelapse now.
mbuster
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Couldn’t see anything with naked eye but iPhone night mode did 3 sec delay. Nothing amazing but seldom seen from Arkansas. Looking east, north, and west
OK--- Here is a timelapse from my PTZ. Nothing too spectacular. Cool satellite (ISS?) flyby at 10:38 in the video (about 3:38am on the overlay). At the same time as the satellite flyby, there is also another object that lights up and fades out 3 times in the upper left part of the video-- not an aircraft though. To me, it looks more like space junk tumbling, and a reflective surface catches sunlight as it rotates.
If you watch at 2X speed on YT, you will be at about 5X actual speed. Setting to .5x speed on YT will give you close to actual time passage-- just a bit faster. Throughout all ~15 minutes of the clip, the bands of aurora constantly change and pulse-- but the light capture ability does not do justice to the aurora display. I had put some Youtube "ambient" music on the vid, but it was really too damn annoying.
If you watch at 2X speed on YT, you will be at about 5X actual speed. Setting to .5x speed on YT will give you close to actual time passage-- just a bit faster. Throughout all ~15 minutes of the clip, the bands of aurora constantly change and pulse-- but the light capture ability does not do justice to the aurora display. I had put some Youtube "ambient" music on the vid, but it was really too damn annoying.
Darn it...I knew I should have gone up north and opted for an AirBnB in a remote area just for these lights (who knows what other perks I could have received for one night in a cabin full of musty odor) . A little bit of pink sets the tone just right if you know what I mean 
So Pink, and a musty odor.... LOLDarn it...I knew I should have gone up north and opted for an AirBnB in a remote area just for these lights (who knows what other perks I could have received for one night in a cabin full of musty odor) . A little bit of pink sets the tone just right if you know what I mean
That is damn cool!!