Auroras
Taken by Mark Seibold on May 27, 2017 @
Corbett, Crown Point, Oregon Vista House
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Date Taken: 2017:05:28 18:42:48
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Aurora’s over the Vista House at Crown Point last night. May 28th ~ 29th 2017.
First up this morning, I must thank Ed Roane in Battleground Washington, and Stuart Atkinson [in the UK] for informing me of the possible Aurora display last night, or I would’ve missed all this madness at the Vista House and drove off somewhere else, say up to Trillium Lake, in quiet serene nature, just doing the beautiful photography and relaxing.
I'm anxious to see Ed Roane's time lapse of the Aurora last night, if I can find it, as I'm just waking up now, after burning out with no sleep last night, trying to help so many others at the cosmic madness of the Vista House. My evening became more of a giving directions to other people and how to use their cameras, while I had a telescope set up, giving astronomy 101 lessons, lecturing, etc, and running back and forth between doing so many things, that I didn't really get to do the Aurora photography that I had intended, so I'm just posting some panoramas now- I must apologize for the delay, as I originally rushed home last night and began post-processing at 4 AM until I fell asleep at the desk. I have friends who have never even gone out and photographed an Aurora yet alone even seen one, or even used a real camera for that matter. They just become frustrated because they can’t see it, and then turn the TV set on again for hours. I don't want to write a dissertation here, but I was so overwhelmed last night with so many people in a public place where most arriving there accidentally, would've thought it was an event for car boom-boxes blasting hip hop and rap music- and many of those young Saturday night partiers' standing around, I don't think they ever even saw the Aurora at all. So many young photographers as first time camera users that did not even know how to set their 'several hundred to a thousand dollar cameras' for time exposure or even take them out of automatic mode, people that didn't even know what in the world was going on, driving up at high speed, braking to a neck-wrenching stop, with high beam headlights on, destroying many of the photographers time exposure photographs, jumping out of their cars and asking- what's happening?! Why does everybody have their cameras pointed that way?!
I had to explain it more like a person talking physics, yet first to inform them that they’re not going to see a thing if they keep driving around with their head lamps on- That they would have to allow their eyes to dark adapt for a few minutes. Just then, a serious famous national photographer emails me on my Facebook front page, and asks me if I know how long this is going to last. At times, I get the impression that some people must think I’m God, as if I actually have control of this light show. Maybe I do, yet I don't know it.
So I tell them, take a step back in time from the 21st century, try thinking about their ancestors for a few moments, instead of the boom box music, the excessive road race headlamps turned up to a thousand Edison lumens, the racing cars, and this mad, mad, mad world today. Imagine what the ancients thought. Now you have them start noticing that somethings’ brightened up in the North. There’s beams of light shooting up. It appears as if someone just turn on the light show in the theater, yet most people have not even got to square one to take a still photograph of this. There are probably many advanced amateur photographers somewhere last night shooting high end digital video. And I hope others here get to see that today, as it’s probably up in the web already. I'd say check Ben Canales’ or Ed Roane's site.
The next thing I have is people questioning me and asking if I'm Neil Degrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan. Now a crowd gathers and they're willing to listen. Yet remember, I've got my camera going, and the Cassegrain telescope equatorial motor drive going with people viewing Saturn through it for the first time and they're yelling for everyone to come and look!
I'm still trying to take a series of time exposures as panoramas, so imagine doing all this while operating your camera, as I'm not where serious photographers probably were last night- all alone, quiet, able to concentrate as a serious photographer would want to on their art.
At times, I feel like I came from another world and I landed in the wrong place.
But suddenly everyone wants to understand all this, and somebody has got to do this job, as John Dobson says.
Photographer's website:
http://https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/1579463287
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