Auroras
Taken by Mark Seibold on September 9, 2015 @
Trillium Lake, Mount Hood, Oregon
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Date Taken: 2015:09:09 08:53:15
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Aurora Borealis Over Trillium Lake Mount Hood Oregon.
As I planned to go to Trillium Lake on the south side of Mt Hood to produce some new large panoramas of the summer sky and Milky Way, I almost decided to scrap the night as I was tired from spending so many hours at the telescope the night before.
So I took the 30 mile drive anyway, stopped for food in Government Camp and still debated going another several miles to the Lake. So finally arriving, not a soul seemingly there, I dragged the camera bag to the usual lakeside vantage point of the mountain in the distance and low and behold, a not so interesting but unusual clear sky, bright Milky Way, and I hear voices of campers across the lake. Then I think they are playing with flashlights as little fleeting pale grey-white beams of light are flickering across the dark night sky. Well, I figure these kids are just like the ones at Cannon Beach a week ago where I took large panoramas there. But wait, the flickering lights tonight are now shooting all the way up to overhead, and what's that bright greenish white light on the horizon like Hood River just added a zillion more street lights to their city? I then realize that I am seeing Aurora Borealis, for the first time lighting up the entire north sky since June 2013.
So now I hurry to set up the camera and quickly begin a plan to map out a large panorama. But as soon as I start photographing, it's already the beginning of the end, as I can see it fading over the next minutes, and not to return. So I take more panoramas up to 26 per completed one overall larger image. This takes the better part of an hour starting precisely at 12 midnight, as the aurora is now quite subtle if even still there as I finish by 12:57 am.
Sony NEX5R, with 16mm wide angle lens at f/3.5, ISO 1600, all exposures at 30 seconds. Photo-stitching with Microsoft ICE. Final post processing was minimal to attain a near naked eye actual appearance, with Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop.
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