Aurora Australis
Taken by VARUN DONGRE on September 1, 2016 @ Maitri Indian Research Base, Schirmacher oasis,Antarctica
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  Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3200
Exposure Time: 250/10
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 1600
Date Taken: 2016:09:01 22:31:01
  
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As alerted we kept an eye on the sky tonight and witnessed beautiful dancing auroras. It was very bright and moving rapidly. The whole sky turned into green and violet. Fortunately in one of my pic the shooting star also captured along with aurora. It was wonderful. The pics has taken by Nikon D3200 with 20S, F/4.5, 800 ISO settings.
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It is just a suggestion , but I think that may be an Iridium Flare instead of a shooting star. I have caught a couple in photos of mine and it looks quite similar. Beautiful shots!!!
Posted by S Scheideman 2016-09-02 00:29:58
I agree with S Scheideman that you probably captured a glinting satellite during your aurora exposure. I am attempting to sleuth out which one it was (I dont think it was one of the Iridiums). One problem is your reported location. This is definitely *not* Maitre Indian Research Base -- the stars are wrong for that location. I believe it is actually Bharati Research Station -- I get a very good star match for that location at around 22:30 (UTC +5 hours) looking southwest toward about azimuth 240. Can you confirm your cameras timezone was set to UTC +5 hours?
Posted by Zaphod73491 2016-09-02 12:54:55
 
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