Photographers & Striated Aurora
Taken by Jane Gnass on September 1, 2019 @
Ester Dome, Ester, Alaska, USA
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Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D700
Exposure Time: 4/1
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 10000
Date Taken: 2019:09:01 03:14:50
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Details:
11:15 UTC: While the spaceweatherlive.com forecast was for Kp 4-6 during the active G2 class geomagnetic storm, the aurora brightness and activity levels must have exceeded Kp6 a few times. So, when the visiting South Bay (SF) photographers, with 12mm fish-eye lenses, blurted out that they'd run out of lens angle, then I laughed into the wind, because my 14mm had felt useless when a corona overhead erupted in a full-dome explosion of photon emissions. “That’s enough light to read a newspaper!” I shouted into the wind. This image captures that night on a small rocky outcrop off a trail, on a ridge in virtual wilderness, barely room for four tripods. After over 3 hours of photographing at Ester Dome in a steady wind, I was glad I'd thrown a parka into the car before leaving home, in Anchorage, 350+ highway miles away.
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Details: Rokinon (Samyang) AE 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC aspherical lens on a Nikon D700 full-frame DSLR camera; ISO 10K, f/2.8, 4.0s exposure.
Photographer's website:
https://www.photo.net/gallery/1049621#//Sort-Newest/All-Categories/All-Time/Page-1
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