197/365: Siding Aurora.

Well, midnight came and went while I was visiting Nuit Blanche North. That meant I was now onto day 197. Good thing too because we didn’t get back home until 5:15 AM and that means we slept most of the daylight hours today. Now, one of the reasons we we home so late was that after staying in Huntsville until 1:30 AM, we were aware of a potential magnetic storm producing auroras visible as far south as New York State. We were considerably farther north than usual, and had a mostly clear sky so rather than heading straight home we made our way outside the lights of Huntsville and looked for an unobstructed view of the north sky. I found it at Siding Lake, just southwest of the town where I parked the car crossed a set of (rarely used) train tracks and setup the tripod with a couple legs in the water of the lake. Since I was trying to spot auroral activity that my naked eye wasn’t finding I didn’t play around – the photo above is 30 seconds at ISO 3200. You can see bright green “clouds” just over the horizon that I believe are auroral activity. The glow off to the right is Huntsville. 

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