By Guy Newlan | 2021-11-07
On 11/04/2021 06:00 pm by caroline haldeman | Website | Flagstaff, AZ, USA
This image is from a 4 1/2 hr long Milky Way Time Lapse that I did on November 4th at 8000' elevation from 5:45pm - 10:15pm (I included a link to it on my FB above.)
While doing the time lapse, I captured Aurora, in Flagstaff! Although its quite faint in color, you can clearly see the green and magenta band coloring in these two images and in the time lapse video.
On Nov 3rd, the NOAA issued a warning for a geomagnetic storm of G3 or greater! This activity produced some amazing aurorae (with 7+ out of 9!). With this strong geomagnetic storming, they predicted possible low-latitude auroras too – set to begin around the first half of November 4.
However, even with all this happening, I never thought about trying to capture aurorae in Flagstaff, because I never heard of that happening up here before. But, I am SO excited that I did!!
I also captured the Zodiacal Light (which you will see shooting up to the left of the Milky Way when it gets to the center and continues to move right) as well as a bunch of meteors. For the first time, I captured a dazzling display of bright small meteors going off one after another in a tight area. (Keep an eye on the bottom right, before the big one appears on the left.)
There was also some bizarre brief dimming of the entire sky that you will notice in the video, which has never happened to me before during a night time lapse. I have no idea what caused it. I even noticed it with my own eyes.
I used an unmodified Canon 1200d on a tripod, a 10mm f/2.8 lens, at 6400iso at 20 sec each (all single images), and a remote shutter.
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