Aurora from the UK
Taken by Dennis Ball on March 17, 2015 @
Southwold, Suffolk, UK
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Camera Used: Canon Canon PowerShot G7 X
Exposure Time: 130/10
Aperture: f/2.0
ISO: 800
Date Taken: 2015:03:17 22:58:25
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Details:
Unremarkable though these two faint aurora photos may appear at first sight, what is unusual about them is the location from which they were taken ... and the camera used.
I had just arrived back home in Southwold in Suffolk (UK), when I checked the spaceweather.com website and saw the huge splurge of red in the aurora doughnut ... and I cursed! … because both of my DLSRs and tripods were back in London and all I has with me was my small Canon compact.
But I grabbed it and headed out anyway. After a couple of hours spent dodging a shifting sea fog and local light pollution, I stumbled upon a reasonably dark location, and was delighted - not only to see the lights from my home town in SE England, but also to gain photographic evidence of my good fortune.
Canon G7X 24-100 compact zoom F1.8, ISO800, 15secs
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