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Taken by Mark Seibold on September 13, 2014 @ Trillium Lake-Near Mount Hood Oregon, and Larch Mountain-Corbett Oregon

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Dear Dr. Tony Phillips: Rarely from Oregon do we see auroras; so as all the news alerted us on last Friday evening a week ago, I set out to dark skies at Trillium Lake near Mount Hood Oregon, last week on Saturday night September 13th after a weak attempt with hundreds of people converging at Larch Mountain the night before seeing nothing, with thousands more below us in the Columbia River Gorge causing gridlocked traffic jams at the Vista hose on Crown Point. *[I'll include my ultra-wide panorama photo here as #2 from Larch Mountain the night before,] although only the latent image in the camera was able to record this with the hundreds of people seen below here on the mountaintop. However, the following night, and I am sorry that it took this long to process and post here, was a spectacular night at Trillium Lake near Mount Hood at 4,000 feet elevation about 11pm~midnight Sept 12th. The near full moon is in the photo at far right from Larch Mountain. Yet at Trillium Lake's darker skies on the following night, Very dark skies just before the waning full moon rose by 10:20pm. The Sony NEX5 camera at high ISO of 1600 and with my Sony 16mm wide angle lens, I recorded about twenty 40 second open shutter exposure images with lens at f/4, mapping the entire general north sky in this 180 degree wide image later photo-stitched with Microsoft ICE. What shows it a very low grade Golden-Green to Red Aurora on the horizon, with subtle red fringes at the horizon. The long exposure at high ISO in this dark sky location prominently shows the Andromeda galaxy at middle right, but I was also surprised for the first time that i captured the Galaxy M33 in Triangulum below it. - Mark Seibold Portland/Sandy, Oregon

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. . . with hundreds of people converging at Larch Mountain the night before seeing nothing, with thousands more below us in the Columbia River Gorge causing gridlocked traffic jams . . .

Very cool: I doubt that many of spaceweather.coms readers would anticipate the human reaction to these phenomena - your report took me completely by surprise. There probably no way of knowing, but it may be a safe bet that Dr. Phillips bears significant if indirect for the throngs that turned out on Sept. 12 - 13th. So thank you for having put the celestial in a social context, to say nothing of the beauty of your own photography, which was certainly worth the wait.

Posted by fmichael 2014-09-22 21:35:07

You are welcomed Franklin. Thanks for the kind words as I am only using a Sony NEX5 new state of the art mirrorless with an APSC light sensor and interchangeable lenses, but with passion as I started with my parents Kodak Box Camera at age 14 in 1967. Then a 35mm Mamiya/Sekor 1000DTL film camera in my college days of 1973 (I still have both the old cameras for collectible nostalgic sake. I hope to find the finer points of better digital processing soon [or within my latest Adobe PS6 programs] and to remember to stay away from the higher ISO range to avoid noise. I also will occasionally adapt my old Mamiya 55mm f/1.4 lens to the newer Sony digital camera. But the 55mm then is more like a telephoto, so in panorama mode of many images to photo stitch, you must take a lot more images through the longer focal length lenses.

Posted by markseibold 2014-09-24 12:16:40

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