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| Lunar Halo in Winter |
Lunar Halo - Early Morning in
Late Summer |
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| June 22 2003: Supra 400 and 24mm f2.8 Nikkor at f8.0 for 4 hours - meteors or fireflies? You be the judge! Note the faint background aurora. | Sept 13, 2004: Supra 400 and 24mm f2.8 Nikkor at f/8 for 5 hours - some aurora too | July 2005, my Supra is running low and getting old. This was a shorter exposure and only a hint of aurora. |
| I have been fortunate to see some really amazing aurora in the last cycle. My three favourites from Sept 7, 2002 are here: | ||
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| The two pics below are from the Oct 30, 2003 display(s). Given the warnings, lots of astrophotographers got great pics - here are my best. These were taken with a 24mm f2.8 Nikkor at f2.8 and all for 30 seconds on Supra 400 print film. | This was a quick pic of Pillars of Light that appeared in the West March 12 2005. No moon but clouds over the nearby village caused some light pollution. | |
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| Here are some more
pics from the Oct 30, 2003 display(s). The ones
in
this row were taken with a 16mm f2.8 Zenitar fisheye at f2.8 and all
for
40 seconds on Supra 400 print film. |
Below is the planetary alignment
on Canada Day 2007: Venus and Saturn |
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| This first set were all from 4am to 5am on Nov 8th 2004. I got up to see if the skies had cleared and they had! The aurora had also intensified. | ||
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| The three pics below were from the the previous evening (Nov 7th, 2004). I was mostly clouded out but did manage to capture some of the display. | ||
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| This shot below and
the two on the right were taken Sept
10th 2005
during a surprisingly strong aurora display. |
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