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| Posted: Wed Oct 14th, 2015 15:18 |
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Robert
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While checking out the panorama website suggested by Eric in another thread, I spotted a link to Time Lapse and Aurora Photography. Then a friend of mine drew my attention to a local photographer who has taken quite a few photographs of the Aurora, nearby, last week. I have had the computer on Aurora Watch UK regularly since. The forecast is a possibility for about 20 past midnight tonight, I will be out there with the D200, straining my eyes. I am also planning to take some images with the D200 UV camera, which may produce some interesting images... May be nothing of course but it's worth a shot.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15th, 2015 02:11 |
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jk
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Good luck and be sure to share your results especially the UV stuff. Have you checked on Bjorn Rorslett's site as I am sure he will have done this.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15th, 2015 05:08 |
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Robert
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Thanks JK, Came to naught last night. The activity subsided at about 9pm. I will take a look at Bj¸rns site with that in mind, I don't know how the Aurora season is progressing, whether it's subsiding or rising in activity, I need to do some research. The images I saw taken by the chap at Millom weren't technical, just snaps really, but they showed quite intense activity just last week, right here. https://www.facebook.com/search/str/millom%2baurora/keywords_top OK, I don't normally touch Facebook with a bargepole, I will disinfect the computer immediately!!!  These images were mainly taken in an Easterly direction, whereas the normal advice is to look Northwards? 
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| Posted: Sun Nov 1st, 2015 10:46 |
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Judith
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Hi Robert Just to make you mega jealous (or even green with envy - sorry!) - this is the view from the living room of my new house! We're doing a massive renovation so not had time to take or process many pics but here are a couple from August. Apparently, the next few nights around 2nd November are going to be good for a CME (coronal mass ejection) so keep your eyes peeled and camera ready. I´m pretty far north but quite often, down your way, if there is an alert on it's worth taking some photos anyway if the sky is clear as the camera can pick up the aurora when you can´t actually see it with your eyes. I´ve found the best settings for me on the d810 have been iso1250, f8, 1/15 to 1/25s depending on the light. However, I´ve only shot looking out of the window so far and there is light pollution from the harbour to factor in. I´ll probably have to readjust everything when I finally get a chance to venture out somewhere darker. There doesn´t seem to be a season as such. The sun spits out CMEs when it feels like it. I thought you could only really see aurora in the winter but when I moved to the new house, I was pleasantly surprised as it has been glowing throughout the summer as well. The advantage of aurora hunting in winter though is that it´s darker much earlier. The best pics I got in the summer were taken really late, some at 3am just before sunrise (I was keen and not knackered from renovating back then lol). Attachment: _JWP3879a.jpg (Downloaded 52 times)
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| Posted: Sun Nov 1st, 2015 10:51 |
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Judith
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And another one... Attachment: _JWP3973web.jpg (Downloaded 52 times)
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| Posted: Sun Nov 1st, 2015 11:09 |
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Robert
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Hi Judith, nice pix, spectacular with the harbour in the foreground. I will check out my CME monitor over the next few days.  You renovating too? I set out to install an en-suit, then realised the chimney was falling over, having got rid of that I decided to remove the chimney breast from my bedroom, while carrying the rubble downstairs my son Michael went through the bottom three steps, so I had to replace them, while I was at it I moved the bottom doorway to the stairs, then I thought, there will be no better time to replace the kitchen ceiling and lights. I am currently re-working the sink unit and worktops, ready to relocate the wall cupboards. Oh, and btw, I replaced the drains and the old manhole... The en-suit still is only half complete and my bedroom needs plastering, oh, and the rest of the stairs are worm eaten and riddled with dry rot, so that's on the list too. Apart from that it's pretty quiet here.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 1st, 2015 11:16 |
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jk
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Nice pictures, Judith. The second is my favourite.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 1st, 2015 13:22 |
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Judith
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Oops those exposure settings should be 15 to 25 secs not 1/15 to 1/25 lol. I am hopeless with numbers! There are a couple of good aurora watching groups on the dreaded facebook, Robert hehe. We didnt think we´d have so much work to do on our house but we discovered all the internal walls were made of old fibre board so every wall is having to be ripped out and replaced on top of all the other work that needed done. Nightmare. Have been at it 7 days a week since August and are now running out of steam rapidly. Fed up living in a building site!!! So, looking forward to getting it finished this month and having time to think about photography again, especially since I officially set up a business just before I moved and had to put it on ice. Will have a nice studio, hopefully by the end of the month, and a separate office (big property - yayy).
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| Posted: Mon Nov 2nd, 2015 11:19 |
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Judith
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Tonight's the night! Here is the Kepler forecast for the next few days. Between 6and 9 tonight is the strongest. I'm about to head off to the beach with my camera.  Attachment: image.jpg (Downloaded 43 times)
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| Posted: Mon Nov 2nd, 2015 16:29 |
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Eric
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Like the view from you house...even without the aurora!
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