Red auroras in Italy
Taken by Pablo Javier Lucero on October 10, 2024 @
Crissolo, Italy
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Unbelievably stunning.
I was up there in the mountain just for the sake of being under a starry sky. You see, I spent a lof ot time trying to capture the celebrated comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) with ZERO luck because it was always cloudy.
After weeks of huge dense clouds, I finally had a clear night, so I went straight to the mountain to get some coffee and some stars.
I finished doing everything I wanted to do and all of the sudden, an almost dangerous wind started to blow and I decided to come back, the thing is, the road was blocked by 50 cows (I counted them).
In the beginning of October, people start to bring the cows down from the montains because it's getting cold, but the cows decided to stop there. And they also decided to sleep there under the stars. Problem is, there is only one official road to come back walking, because of this, I had to do a detour very close to a river with a 45 degree angle, both when I was going up and when I was coming down. I'm not sure if it's dangerous or not, but I prefered not to disturb.
It was slippery and since I didn't know this road well I was totally focused with my headlamp at full power trying not to fall.
When I was about to get to the church at the beginning of the road, very close to a parking a lot, I saw the cows and decided to take a "kind of portrait" of them under the stars, took a test shot and that's when I noticed some very strange colors. The white balance was all over the place.
I took a second shot, then a third one and no, it was correct.
Then I remembered, a friend and collegue sent me that very same week, be alert, there are strong solar storms... and then I looked up.
I was jumping, screaming, I didn't know what to do.
I started to call her, my friend in Chile, then other friends in Argentina... my wife, I was shaking, excited, couldn't really process it all.
I wanted to come back home early, ended up coming back at 0530.
I did 360 panoramas, individual photos, videos... and I even noticed some weak violet glow in the sky in one of the first images that I took and didn't noticed back then, only when I got home. It was truly remarkable.
Everything taken with a Sony a7III, the panoramas were taken at F 1.8, ISO 6400 and 6 secs.
The portrait was F 1.8, 15 secs and ISO 12800. And the last image was F 1.8, 10 secs and ISO 3200.
Photographer's website:
https://astrofotografiaycafe.com/astrofotografia/
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