Morning Aurora (August 4, 2024)

[guykuo]

Initially only visible through holes in the clouds, but wait until the clouds clear.
The display would have been even more amazing were it not obscured by our Pacific Northwest Clouds.

 

[erkme73]

That's so much more beautiful than the one we captured a few months ago that came further south than TN. Ours only lasted about 20 minutes and I couldn't see it with my naked eyes.

View attachment PTZ-NW.20240511_232641-234006.140.mp4

 

[guykuo]

erkme73, it is amazing it was visible that far south. Some of the articles I read about the May 10-11 event put it in the once every 500 years range, base on historical accounts of auroras being seen that far south. We got to see and capture a historic moment.

 

[DezertManiac]

Initially only visible through holes in the clouds, but wait until the clouds clear.
The display would have been even more amazing were it not obscured by our Pacific Northwest Clouds.

Wow Amazing video! What camera settings are you using here, (if you don't mind me asking)? TIA! and TBH honest I dig the clouds as it created this layer of separation of the Auroras vs the clouds! What camera? Looking forward to more videos, subscribed to your channel!

 

[guykuo]

It is a Loryta Color-4KT 3.6 mm lens. For the aurora capture time lapses, I set it to a manual, exposure mode. Gain 0 to 50. Manual shutter range 0 to 300 msec with a frame rate of 3 fps. Frame rate is set low to match long shutter because the camera will output lower and lower frame rates to match what the shutter speed permits. My editing software really does not like it when the frame rate varies inside a clip. So, I just set the encode rate to 3 FPS. That camera is really only used for time lapses any ways. That also minimizes total size of raw video data.