Northern Lights in Chugwater #2

JimFox

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Another image from the Tuesday night Solar Super Storm. This one is different for me because I am not sure I have seen the Aurora turn Cyan before, so while I like the shapes in the sky, I like this because it's got that cyan area.

Nikon Z6II
Viltrox 16mm f1.8
ISO 2000
5 secs
f1.8

All Comments are welcome,

Jim

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JimFox

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Another awesome color display! I'm looking forward to seeing the time lapse.
I appreciate that Michael. I am processing the timelapse now, this one has a little over 8000 photos in it. I break them down into 400 photo sections as I have found about 400 is the sweet spot so that ACR doesn't choke which processing them. And I am guessing about 30 to 40% of them have headlights in them as the freeway is in the lower right of the image, I couldn't find a way to eliminate the freeway in the image while composing. So I will need to clean those headlights up, as they would be super distracting. But my hope is to have the timelapse done by the end of the weekend.
 

MonikaC

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That's really bizarre -- looks light daylight with the cyan and pink clouds. I would not have guessed it being an aurora shot.
 

JimFox

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That's really bizarre -- looks light daylight with the cyan and pink clouds. I would not have guessed it being an aurora shot.
Thanks Monika. I had to look it up, as it looked so strange to me, but cyan is an aurora color. I forget now, but the chart I saw listed the particulars needed for cyan to show up. I am glad I got it, as it makes it different from my previous times.
 

MonikaC

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Thanks Monika. I had to look it up, as it looked so strange to me, but cyan is an aurora color. I forget now, but the chart I saw listed the particulars needed for cyan to show up. I am glad I got it, as it makes it different from my previous times.
I guess it's very rare, only seen during intense geomagnetic storms. You were lucky!
 
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