Contains:  Northern lights

Short Outburst of Aurora Activity (24.-25.09.2023), 389x speed

Short Outburst of Aurora Activity (24.-25.09.2023), 389x speed

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Description

Yesterday evening at ~ 10 pm CEST, my aurora warning app notified me, that a strong aurora outburst was very likely. The NLC webcams of the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Kühlungsborn already showed a green arc over the northern horizon. Unfortunately, my house obstructs most of the northern sky and I was too lazy (MrLazyPhysicist) for a 10 min walk through the nearby dark woods to a lake with a relative unobstructed view of the northern horizon. Therefore, I setup my old Canon EOS 600D with a Canon Fisheye on my balcony pointing approximately in NE direction and shot 628 x 11 s images. The version on Astrobin is reduced to a 1080p, medium quality 213 frames version around the maximum activity. The repaly speed is ~ 389x faster than the live view.

I also produced some other versions:

+ full time-lapse video (23:41-02:21 CEST) in 4K at 389x replay speed is available here
+ time-lapse video (23:57-00:47 CEST) in 4K at 20x replay speed is available here
+ time-lapse video (23:57-00:47 CEST) in 4K at 389x replay speed with timestamps (CEST) is available here

24.-25.09.2023, 23:41-02:21 CEST

Equipment
+ Canon EOS 600D
+ Canon EF 8-15mm 1:4 L Fisheye USM @ 10 mm
+ Remote shutter release and timer Triton MQTC01
+ Vanguard tripod Veo 2 264CB

Camera settings
+ ISO 6400
+ 628 x 11 s

Processing

Adobe Lightroom
+ color balancing & saturation corrections, histogram and curves transformations, mitigate vignetting, noise reduction, tiff export

LRTimeLapse
+ creation of time-lapse movies

Location: Schwentinental, Germany

- CS Daniel

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Short Outburst of Aurora Activity (24.-25.09.2023), 389x speed, MrCrazyPhysicist