Popular Post Woodbutcher Posted May 10 Popular Post Share Posted May 10 In case anyone's interested the flaring from the enormous sunspot I've been imaging has thrown a lot of stuff in our direction , and the storm arrived a short while ago and looks great for views of the aurora pretty much UK wide , weather permitting of course. Here's hoping you have clear skies. 3 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Kenb Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 1 hour ago, Woodbutcher said: In case anyone's interested the flaring from the enormous sunspot I've been imaging has thrown a lot of stuff in our direction , and the storm arrived a short while ago and looks great for views of the aurora pretty much UK wide , weather permitting of course. Here's hoping you have clear skies. amazing.... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Woodbutcher Posted May 11 Author Share Posted May 11 Words fail me , an astronomical event occurs as forecast , under clear skies , and what a show it was too ... I've caught hints of the aurora in the northern horizon once or twice , but to see it stretching beyond the zenith and to the south of me , naked eye here in Suffolk ..... ! Apologies to those who missed out , you're going to be fed up to the back teeth of seeing it plastered over every platform imagiable for the next few days ... Had a few issues photo-wise here , I'm out of practice messing about in the middle of a field in the dark with the camera not tethered to a laptop. In such a rush to get shooting with the display reaching right across the sky from West to East that I clonked the focus ring when panning about , caught the lights though which is what mattered to me ... Just ploughing through a couple of hundred CR3. files that the EOS 90D chucked out as I forgot to shoot in combo mode , but the inbuilt intervalometer was a godsend. Will post up an animation/movie of all the better shots when the processing's done , in the meantime the Sun's about to appear so time to get shooting again before the monster spot disappears . 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Woodbutcher Posted May 11 Author Share Posted May 11 Rule #1 ... remember to switch off AF on the lens ... Glad to have caught it though , however badly , the sky was so full that the 10mm lens was nowhere near wide enough ... ! My Movie 3 0.7x.mp4 2 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Woodbutcher Posted August 12 Author Share Posted August 12 No guarantees but the aurora forecast is looking good again for tonight ... https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Woodbutcher Posted September 12 Author Share Posted September 12 On 12/08/2024 at 18:05, Woodbutcher said: No guarantees but the aurora forecast is looking good again for tonight ... https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ Same heads-up applies for tonight folks ... 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
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