A beautiful start to the day, finally skies cleared just before dawn allowing me to image the morning conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and Mars in a triangle. Difficult to see in this image scale is also Mercury, just above the gap in between the mountains. Throw in Earth in the foreground and that's five planets in one shot, not bad going! Just hoping the aurora put on a show tonight as the clear skies are forecast to stay.
The clouds bubbled away as the aurora danced around in this 10 minute time lapse taken from Brekka in Hvalfjordur in Iceland. Taken with the Canon350D, Sigma 10mm F4, ISO 800 and 30 seconds exposure.
It's only taken me a year to get this animation together from last years images of aurora from Brekka in Hvalfjordur in Iceland. About 50mins worth of timelapse here, taken with a Canon 350D, Sigma 10mm f4 lens at ISO800, 30 second exposures. Hoping for something better in a weeks time!
I love the rays in this shot! Hopefully weather permitting this year aurora will be more spectacular than those of last year with any coronal holes or active regions being closer to the equator and more geoeffective than previous years when activity was more poleward on the sun.
One of my favourite shots of aurora taken in Iceland last October, really looking forward to going again in a couple of weeks, and hope the skies are clear and the aurora are string this time around!
I ended up taking dozens of images in the poor seeing in the hope that one would come out, and this one did - the definition of lucky imaging. The shot was taken with the 100mm Tal refractor at a shade over 3000mm focal length using the homebrew CaK filter and the PGR Blackfly IMX249 GigE camera. This is not as sharp an image as I know I can get with this setup, but for a shot taken in early october with a low sun it works pretty well!
A quiet sun, but there's always something to see in CaK wavelengths on the disk. Taken with the 40mm scope at 650mm focal length with the homebrew CaK filter and the PGR Blackfly IMX249 GigE camera.
