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It's dawn now, did anyone happen to screenshot that page during the night? The mosaic of pink/purple skies was rather beautiful, but I'm afraid preserving it slipped my mind.
Are we supposed to be able to see anything in North America?
Wow! Check out the view from the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland! https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/live/webcams/#webcam-jungfrauj...
It's dawn now, did anyone happen to screenshot that page during the night? The mosaic of pink/purple skies was rather beautiful, but I'm afraid preserving it slipped my mind.
I just found out that if you select a webcam you can actually go back in time, or even do a 'backwards timelapse' from the view menu. There's also a 'best of' which seems to have a collection of quite nice shots from all webcams: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bestof/
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When I took photos of the northern lights on my Sony RX1 the colours became much stronger. I assumed all digital cameras captured the colours better than our eyes.
Yes, an electronic sensor is much more sensitive than our eyes. However, even within digital sensors, some are more sensitive than others. Add that sensitivity with the ability to do long exposure, and you can capture things we will never see with our naked eyes. Even with binoculars or telescopes, our eyes will just seem more photons, but pretty much without the color. That's where the digital sensors really "shine"
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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! :)
I was in Northern MN a couple years back when there was some decent aurora https://imgur.com/a/nBjdhZ9 What the camera caught was really impressive! Even with just a couple seconds exposure on a phone. But what the human eye saw was.... effectively a portion of the sky that was unusually bright and seemed to have some sort of movement. Like you stared at it and knew something was amiss, but nothing "impressive" to lo…
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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.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&safe_sea...
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Doesn’t look like that in reality. If I take a photo on my phone here in the UK midlands I get pink and green in all directions with a 3 second exposure. However with just the naked eye it’s like super high level clouds
Ok why is it that some people say northern lights look EXACTLY like these spectacular photos, and others say in real life they are actually barely visible and you need a camera and very dark skies? Is there some kind of running joke I’m missing? I saw some northern lights in Iceland but they were very dim and underwhelming, I didn’t even know what I was looking at until I photographed them and saw the vivid green str…
Are we supposed to be able to see anything in North America?
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longer exposure times.
The longer exposure doesn’t seem to affect other aspects of the night sky though, I can see stars way better with the naked eye than my phone will show. That’s probably just because of stars being point sources and hard for the camera to focus on in an otherwise black night sky.