[Photography-sig] Solar flare eruptions set to reach Earth

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:37:25AM -0500, Edgar Lachance wrote:
> Folks:
> 
> Get your cameras out to a dark spot tonight and tomorrow night.
> 
> Aurora Borealis !!

Bugger, forecast tonight looks unco-operative, but let's hope!  Tomorrow
night looks clear.

Definitely dig out your tripods.

> Here's a link to the story
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12493980

Thanks for this story, Edgar!

There are a couple of websites that have alert mailing lists to alert you
of impending potentially good viewing conditions:
	http://spaceweather.com/
	http://spacew.com/

There is some gorgeous stuff in their galleries.

I found a few good tips pages:
	http://www.digital-photography-school.com/an-introduction-to-photographing-the-northernsouthern-lights
	http://www.my-photo-blog.com/how-to-photograph-the-aurora-borealis-northern-lights
	http://www.ptialaska.net/~hutch/aurora.html


I have a bunch of photos I've taken of aurora in the past.  2002 was a
good year.  These were taken from the roof of Conservation Co-op at 140
Mann Avenue in Sandy Hill:
	http://tricolour.net/photos/2002/09/04/aurora.html
	http://tricolour.net/photos/2002/10/04/aurora.html
	http://tricolour.net/photos/2002/10/08/aurora.html

This one was at a cottage about 50 km north of Montebello in 2007.  I
hadn't seen the aurora when I was out that night taking photos.  I had
taken this photo in raw mode and when I got back home several days later
and openned it up in ufraw to rescue an otherwise dark shot, I
discovered the aurora in it!
	http://tricolour.net/photos/2007/09/01/22-32-04i1.html

As you can see from the "day" link, I had taken a photo two minutes
earlier with a really bright moon, which is likely why I hadn't seen the
aurora initially.  This camera can "see" better than me.


I'm pretty sure I have others, as I recall seeing aurora from our
backyard on Cambridge St. N in Chinatown when we were living there from
2003-7, but I guess I haven't tagged them yet for easy finding...

> Edgar

	slainte mhath, RGB

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