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Some Aurora shots

Started Mar 4, 2015 | Discussions thread
MOD Kendall Helmstetter Gelner Forum Pro • Posts: 20,587
Re: Some Aurora shots

jande9 wrote:

Some people in Whitehorse said that it was the brightest they had seen this year. Lucky us!

The ISO doesn't really mean anything. Iris and shutter were set manually.

Thank you, by the way, for your earlier pointers on exposure settings for auroras.

Jan

Well, I was thinking about the combination of the ISO and shutter speed (15 seconds I think?).  I'm glad if what I did helped in any way, even if you took a slightly different take on settings.  

I'm really glad you got a chance to see the effect, since it's so variable and you may see nothing.  On the trip I took my images, the night before the pictures were taken there was absolutely nothing.  The next night it was spectacular.  So if anyone else goes on an aurora watching trip, I'd give yourself a few days for a chance to see something good.

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