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Auroral observation 2/3-Sept 2005 at 42 deg N Lat
Last post 09-09-2005 12:50 PM by
adegutis. 0 replies.
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09-09-2005 12:50 PM
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adegutis
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Auroral observation 2/3-Sept 2005 at 42 deg N Lat
A little lating posting this... hopefully we'll get a good display in the next week or so...
Last Friday night (2005-Sept-02) I
was outside imaging M31 (Canon 300D piggybacked on a LX200) and looked
north from time to time to see if there was any activity. Sometimes
it's difficult to differentiate between the sky-glow, haze and clouds
near the horizon and northern lights. One of the times, around 05:00 UT
(midnight local time), I spotted faint but obvious pillars of light in
the northwest. I hurried to interrupt my imaging session and pointed my
scope to the north. I couldn't get the scope low enough for the camera
to get a good view of the north so I removed it from the scope and put
it on a tripod. I also changed from the 300mm lense to the 55mm lense.
By the time I got that all set up (10 minutes) the auroral display had
stopped. I watched (and snapped photos) for a half-hour but didn't see
or capture anything. I put the camera back on the telescope and
returned to imaging M31, frequently looking to the north for a return
which did not occur.
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Al Degutis
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