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I saw a full aurora in Melbourne, Australia. Colours, ribbons, arcs and beams all visible to the naked eye and on camera. Normally with aurouras, you only get to see a faint greyish glow on the horizon and it only looks good on camera. Not this time.
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I was in a place with fair amount of light pollution, and far from where the aurora would be strongest. These two photos taken with my camera, are approximately how it looked to my eyes after they'd adjusted to the dark: https://i.imgur.com/8OOiCgX.png https://i.imgur.com/GCpyumd.png As a comparison, this is how my phone captured the same scene with default settings: https://i.imgur.com/FCvN3gf.jpeg
Thanks! Certainly two entirely different visuals.
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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…
I wonder the same. My wife and I drove out to a park east of Seattle late last night to spend a couple hours watching the aurora, and it was... okay. I saw some faint grey wisps, like high-altitude clouds, which occasionally faded away and reappeared elsewhere. A mild novelty, but nothing I would bother to seek out again; I assumed we were too far south, or out of the path, and hadn't gotten to see it properly. This…
My unindicted co-conspirator is a much bigger fan of song contests than I am, but sometimes you just have to wonder at the production values: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyUsNgu4GAI&t=550s
I 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…
I was out flying a camera drone on the river Dee between Liverpool and North Wales filming the sunset, when I started getting magnetic interference warnings. At the same time, I started to see flashes in the sky. Then my vision was filled with sparkling lights. A few minutes later I got an aurora warning from my brother and the aurora app. KP 8-9 As the sun went down I was waking through a woodland. I thought the dar…
The shocking thing to me, though, is the number of satellites in the sky. This was a shit sky, way beyond what people would call "milky". Hardly any stars visible. But everywhere you looked there were satellites. I remember it being rare to see one only 15 years ago. Almost couldn't believe you could really see them back then. But now... Everywhere. I had no idea how congested it was getting up there. Wish I could leave Earth. But also glad we can't because we'd fuck that up too.
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> It was not the Milky Way, we can see every clear night. I'm exceedingly jealous. I don't think I've ever lived somewhere that I could see it, no matter how clear the night. Looking at images of "north america at night" vs "europe at night" I can see why.
With the milky way it's the same thing as the auroras. I went camping in the middle of nowhere USA, and on a clear night you can absolutely not see the milkyway the way it's portrayed in photos. It looks waaaaaaaaay less clear. You need a very long exposure camera to see it the same way as on the internet. The only difference with Europe is that I saw more stars, but none of those nebulas.
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I don't have binocular vision. I lived aboard a sailboat for a few years. I'm quite active with rock climbing etc and I honestly don't think I would be able to do anything better if I had binocular vision... Just a thought
Good for you! But I know I am worse doing climbing etc. with one eye. It is probably something you can train and get used to, that it is not such a big deal, but I cannot imagine doing it on the same level one eyed.