Anyone have any DSLR settings recommendations? (newbie here, Canon EOS R5). Located North Eastern US, just about approaching dusk. Fingers crossed!
Crank your ISO up and play with shutter speed. You need a tripod to capture anything satisfactory.
Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
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#112Saw them in the west of Germany. Phone camera made them more visible. But also clearly visible with the naked eye.
Looked outside just now around Bad Homburg in Frankfurt area, nothing :( So depressing
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, camera sensors (depending on filtering) are far more sensitive to the dim light of the aurora than our eyes. Still means you can get utterly amazing photography there already! :)
A couple of years ago in the middle of Norway (not south, not north, in-between) me and a friend saw in the news that there would be aurora borealis, which is not common in that part of Norway. We were outside at like 2AM in the night that day trying to spot it but could see any hint of it for the life of us. Finally we used his phone and long exposure to see what it would pick up and on the captured photo we saw sha…
For what it's worth... growing up in Tromsø, we have auroras a few dozen times per winter usually.
They were always strong enough to be easily seen, often quite dramatic. It really does look like that if you're far enough north.
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#114Anyone have any DSLR settings recommendations? (newbie here, Canon EOS R5). Located North Eastern US, just about approaching dusk. Fingers crossed!
Don't be afraid of Iso, you might want manual focus, mirrorless cameras even as good as the R5 have a hard time focusing on "nothing at infinity". Largest aperture your lens can do (biggest hole, smallest f number) and the recommended shutter speeds.
I had luck with iso 3200, f1.4 and 1/6s shutter handheld on a sony a7iv with a 35mm f1.4 GM.
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#115Anyone have any DSLR settings recommendations? (newbie here, Canon EOS R5). Located North Eastern US, just about approaching dusk. Fingers crossed!
Tripod. Long exposure and keep ISO lowish. You may need to manually focus as there won’t be a clear object to focus on.
Shoot RAW and you can tweak the image better to pull down the brightness of the sky to help the colours stand out.
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#116Anyone have any DSLR settings recommendations? (newbie here, Canon EOS R5). Located North Eastern US, just about approaching dusk. Fingers crossed!
Don't be afraid of Iso, you might want manual focus, mirrorless cameras even as good as the R5 have a hard time focusing on "nothing at infinity". Largest aperture your lens can do (biggest hole, smallest f number) and the recommended shutter speeds. I had luck with iso 3200, f1.4 and 1/6s shutter handheld on a sony a7iv with a 35mm f1.4 GM.
Thanks! Now I just need some cosmic rays to light the sky!
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
A couple of years ago in the middle of Norway (not south, not north, in-between) me and a friend saw in the news that there would be aurora borealis, which is not common in that part of Norway. We were outside at like 2AM in the night that day trying to spot it but could see any hint of it for the life of us. Finally we used his phone and long exposure to see what it would pick up and on the captured photo we saw sha…
For what it's worth... growing up in Tromsø, we have auroras a few dozen times per winter usually. They were always strong enough to be easily seen, often quite dramatic. It really does look like that if you're far enough north.
For sure. As mentioned though we were in the middle of Norway, not north.
Well, actually the proper term for where we were at is East Norway. And I guess by official standards the middle of Norway is further north than where I consider the middle of Norway to be.
To be very specific, we were in Gjøvik.
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#118I feel I need to report my experience from Denmark, Jutland. It started with white broad streaks, which most of all looked like fog, but then perhaps after 10 minutes or so, we saw colors of red, purple and green begin to emerge from the these streaks. Most astoundingly it all seemed to emanate from a fluctuating point in the middle of the sky. If you looked closely at this point you could see it fall into itself, mo…
Can you share a photo?
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#119Could a G4 to G5 storm disrupt air planes while in flight? Do they ever cancel air travel for this level of storm?
Yes, if it's a Boeing plane.
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#120Could a G4 to G5 storm disrupt air planes while in flight? Do they ever cancel air travel for this level of storm?
No and it is beautiful when you are flying north routes at night.