Observation by Tim Haymes: Aurora from Steeple Aston (Oxon)

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Tim Haymes

Observer

Tim Haymes

Observed

2023 Feb 27 - 21:15

Uploaded

2023 Feb 28 - 10:39

Objects

Polaris

Equipment

Tokina 11-16mm
Canon 70D
Tripod

Exposure

13s @ F4, 1600iso (4xjpg stack)

Location

Near Banbury

Target name

Northern Lights

Title

Aurora from Steeple Aston (Oxon)

About this image

I was not prepared for the faintness. It was not visible to the eye, only the camera. The Aurora Watch activity histogram was the alert, and some emails.
This is a 4 frame jpg, stacked in DSS, de-noised, and then saturation added. So its artistic, rather then scientific. The last one i saw in the UK was in 2001. There are some artifacts caused by lighting from other sources (moon, streetlight..). We are at LAT 51.9 North. It clouded over soon after, so i was lucky to catch this glimpse.

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Aurora_SA_2023Feb27.jpg (535.9 kB)

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