Aurora Borealis
Taken by Mark Seibold on September 12, 2014 @
Larch Mountain, Corbet Oregon, USA
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Date Taken: 2014:09:13 12:28:33
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Aurora Borealis at Larch Mountain assembled into a roughly stitched by Microsoft ICE 180 degree panorama. In the final manual stitching, a frame from above holds the ever present Andromeda galaxy just above the rising waning gibbous moons near blinding reflected sunlight. Can you see the Andromeda Galaxy at 2.9 million light years distance? The most distant object visible to the naked eye.
At about the eleventh hour pm, as I continued to take a total of approximately 35 images with my Sony NEX5, difficult at times with over a hundred people on the mountaintop patio jostling for breathing space, under moonlight now, many asking us few astronomers present, that were to know when the aurora would appear, many leaving, others frantically waiting, so then low and behold I ran short of patience after tripping the photo flash three times to slightly light the crowd, and then one irritated youth drunken and annoyed by my flash threatened physical violence to stop me.
I knew then, it was about time to leave. Finally this morning and not till moments ago in extreme Adobe Photoshop processing of the final dozen images, did I notice the "Purple Lavender Haze" from my Latent Computer Process of the Wonderful Sony camera technology. "Excuse me While I Fix the Sky."
So many last night only thought we saw in our initial camera playback screens, a faint orange glow along the north horizon behind Mount St. Helens- Mt Rainier- Mt Adams [seen here from left to right on the North Horizon,] and that it might have been distant aurora light. As my camera momentarily picked up the latent unprocessed image of a purple arc in the northwest sky, apparent here in this large 180 degree panorama at middle left of the total image, hovering just right and adjacent of the orange sodium streetlights of the Metro East Portland light pollution.
art & photography by Mark Seibold ©1954~2014
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Photographer's website:
http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/1579463287
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