Color Sky cams are picking up the northern lights overhead. I can barely see with naked eye, but on cameras it is pretty wild. Will be a great time lapse.
The Shrubs almost seem like Stonehenge in the dark....way better dedication and captures than I got off the Amcrest 1179e...porch cam lol.....
I'm almost inclined to remount the color 4k t180 on a stick for tonight...
Northern Lights Time Lapse 4K West View from east of Bellevue WA.
Starting to process time lapses from captures last night. More to follow, but here is the first I've completed at 4K resolution.
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I had the same experience in Indianapolis. Couldn't really see with the naked eye, but the T180s were able to catch them. I have some stuff to do this morning, but will get the footage pulled and uploaded later.
A much more modest aurora display Saturday night (May 11, 2024) as opposed to the spectacular showing Friday night. Unfortunately, activity was waned before darkness descended.
In compensation, we get far more stars, the Milky Way, numerous satellites flying by, and even an appearance of M31's (Andromeda galaxy) smudgy disk near the end.
Reportedly went as South as California in the great Chapman storm of 1859.
I believe more storms are forecast to come this year. I got a few great photos from a location in the UK although some people with proper cameras in the newspapers got some amazing pics:
Finished the full length time lapse for this morning's showing. I did NOT adjust color saturation or hue. Only gamma adjusted the exposure for better contrast.