@LucasTheConcorde
Well I was away from home out of state doing an internship and one night I’m being sent all these photos of this bright red/pink aurora taken just 20 miles south of where I was so I rushed outside down to the street for a clear view of the sky and there was nothing. So I went to take a photo to show I couldn’t see anything but when the photo processed I could see red. I thought maybe my finger had covered the lens partially so I took a few more and it was still there, and that’s when I realized (with immeasurable disappointment) that there definitely was an aurora but I couldn’t see it with the naked eye. Which is crazy because I was pretty far north and there was practically zero light pollution other than the occasional car going down the highway.
Need to get up to Alaska or something one of these days.
@DeadlyDialga great picture!
I actually saw it with my own eyes! All I saw was just a faint green haze but it looked really cool in the camera! (As you can see in the photos)
I managed to see them as well… sort of. I could only see them through my phone camera.
To me it was just a pitch black night sky with stars and a full moon unless I looked at the sky through the phone camera. Something about how the Iphone camera is able to capture more light at once and then composite that light.
@PPLLAANNEE
@DeadlyDialga oh, maybe most of the northern lights was in the middle of Canada and parts a Minnesota.
@LucasTheConcorde
I was in New England at that time.
@DeadlyDialga where were you when you “saw it”?
Midwest or somewhere?
@LucasTheConcorde
Well I was away from home out of state doing an internship and one night I’m being sent all these photos of this bright red/pink aurora taken just 20 miles south of where I was so I rushed outside down to the street for a clear view of the sky and there was nothing. So I went to take a photo to show I couldn’t see anything but when the photo processed I could see red. I thought maybe my finger had covered the lens partially so I took a few more and it was still there, and that’s when I realized (with immeasurable disappointment) that there definitely was an aurora but I couldn’t see it with the naked eye. Which is crazy because I was pretty far north and there was practically zero light pollution other than the occasional car going down the highway.
Need to get up to Alaska or something one of these days.
@DeadlyDialga great picture!
I actually saw it with my own eyes! All I saw was just a faint green haze but it looked really cool in the camera! (As you can see in the photos)
gotta love light pollution... I live in a semi-rural area and still almost never really see them, even though i'm far enough north
I managed to see them as well… sort of. I could only see them through my phone camera.
To me it was just a pitch black night sky with stars and a full moon unless I looked at the sky through the phone camera. Something about how the Iphone camera is able to capture more light at once and then composite that light.
@PPLLAANNEE in Iowa
Awesome pictures. Where was this taken?l
Nice