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Community photo entitled Northern Lights in the Catskills of NY by Steven Schaum on 05/11/2024 at Ashokan Reservoir, Catskills, NY

Northern Lights in the Catskills of NY

On 05/11/2024 12:50 am by Steven Schaum | Website | Ashokan Reservoir, Catskills, NY

What can I say about last night. I started my day in Saratoga Springs, NY. I was helping at a conference for the week, and yesterday about 1:00 pm I drove just about 200 miles home.
I had been following this storm since early in the morning, but all of the weather apps were saying clouds and rain until about 3 am. At about 6 pm last night, the storm hit a G5, and it was the strongest geomagnetic storm we have seen in about 20 years.
I then sit down in front of the computer, start frantically looking at several different sites for weather forecasts, looking for a clearing in the sky within a few hours driving distance (not realizing that people in Florida saw this last night). During this time I had friends texting me, if I was going, where am I going, and next thing you know I have a car load of people with me. So many times I end up making trips like this by myself.
We drove up to the Ashokan Reservoir, I knew I had a good view of the northern horizon and a great place to capture the image that I wanted. When we arrived there are at least 50 other cars up there. I have never seen that many up there. Everyone is out taking pics with the camera's and cell phones. I set up and captured about 2 hours worth of images and then had another 100+ mile ride home. Needless to say it was a 400 mile days yesterday for me. lol.
Did you capture any aurora photos last night? Camera or cell phone? During my drive last night heading north, I had friends texting me from CT, NY, and SC sending me there iPhone photos of the #NorthernLights

Nikon Z7ii, Tamron 24-70 at 24mm, ISO 1600, f/3.5, 13 second exposure, White Balance manually set to 4500.

I imported the image into Lightroom and adjusted the brightness and colors and noticed that I saw this ribbon going from left to right, so I continued to edit till I was able to bring that ribbon out a little.