Northern lIghts in se England?
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interstellar said:
Was that all visible to the naked eye or did the camera catch most of it where you were?
Yes, during the peak. I found the greens quite faint but the purples and reds were very clear - almost as vivid as in the final photo. The purples and reds filled the sky directly overhead, and seemed to extend to a point overhead. Reddish and greyish rays (green in the photos) extended from the centre to near the horizon in many directions. It was amazing tbh and far bigger than my field of view could take in. The peak lasted about 45 mins while we were there, having previously been quite faint to the eye. Our site was 'semi-rural'.
When we got back home, I took a comparison photo from our garden (we live close to the centre of a largeish city). It was just a colourless smudge to the eye, but still looked like this in the photos:
Grrbang said:
Yes, during the peak. I found the greens quite faint but the purples and reds were very clear - almost as vivid as in the final photo. The purples and reds filled the sky directly overhead, and seemed to extend to a point overhead. Reddish and greyish rays (green in the photos) extended from the centre to near the horizon in many directions. It was amazing tbh and far bigger than my field of view could take in. The peak lasted about 45 mins while we were there, having previously been quite faint to the eye.
Our site was 'semi-rural'.
When we got back home, I took a comparison photo from our garden (we live close to the centre of a largeish city). It was just a colourless smudge to the eye, but still looked like this in the photos:
Liar. The stars are blurred - those are long exposure photographs.Our site was 'semi-rural'.
When we got back home, I took a comparison photo from our garden (we live close to the centre of a largeish city). It was just a colourless smudge to the eye, but still looked like this in the photos:
BandOfBrothers said:
Liar. The stars are blurred - those are long exposure photographs.
I didn't say they weren't. I said "the purples and reds were very clear - almost as vivid as in the final photo" - my honest account of what I saw. They were all 3s exposures. The final photo was more washed out and closer to the true colours, because the camera was trying to focus on the back of my head. The green in the head photo wasn't visible to the naked eye but the reds and purples were.
Grrbang said:
BandOfBrothers said:
Liar. The stars are blurred - those are long exposure photographs.
I didn't say they weren't. I said "the purples and reds were very clear - almost as vivid as in the final photo" - my honest account of what I saw. They were all 3s exposures. The final photo was more washed out and closer to the true colours, because the camera was trying to focus on the back of my head. The green in the head photo wasn't visible to the naked eye but the reds and purples were.
We went round the other side of the house and there it was, to the south. Turns out it was actually all around us pretty much. After we had been out a while, looking at the sky we went back round the house to look north and we seen the greens for the 1st time.
I think our eyes had adjusted after 30 mins or more outside. The green was so easy to see compared to before, plus could now see a little bit of purple above. Weird the way our eyes work sometimes.
I took my pictures using a Google Pixel Pro 7 camera using Night Sight.
The sky was fairly ordinary to the naked eye but the night sight added all the red and blues and greens.
Hold the phone for a few seconds and take the picture which would normally produce a blur but the night sight takes multiple pictures meaning that fixed objects like trees and houses and stars stay sharp and then it used multiple exposures to build up the background which makes the northern lights visible.
So did I see the northern lights or did my phone see the northern lights?
The sky was fairly ordinary to the naked eye but the night sight added all the red and blues and greens.
Hold the phone for a few seconds and take the picture which would normally produce a blur but the night sight takes multiple pictures meaning that fixed objects like trees and houses and stars stay sharp and then it used multiple exposures to build up the background which makes the northern lights visible.
So did I see the northern lights or did my phone see the northern lights?
Actual said:
I took my pictures using a Google Pixel Pro 7 camera using Night Sight.
The sky was fairly ordinary to the naked eye but the night sight added all the red and blues and greens.
Hold the phone for a few seconds and take the picture which would normally produce a blur but the night sight takes multiple pictures meaning that fixed objects like trees and houses and stars stay sharp and then it used multiple exposures to build up the background which makes the northern lights visible.
So did I see the northern lights or did my phone see the northern lights?
Where are you in the country, as Friday night i did capture more on the camera (various 20-30s exposure depending on how lit the foreground was), but it was very visible to the naked eye, especially the reds and purples. The sky was fairly ordinary to the naked eye but the night sight added all the red and blues and greens.
Hold the phone for a few seconds and take the picture which would normally produce a blur but the night sight takes multiple pictures meaning that fixed objects like trees and houses and stars stay sharp and then it used multiple exposures to build up the background which makes the northern lights visible.
So did I see the northern lights or did my phone see the northern lights?
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