Taken around 10:20 pm last night outside my home in the Southern Tier of New York with an iPhone 13 mini and, I'm assuming, night mode.
This didn't look anything like what I saw with my eyes which was just a sort-ofpurplish glow in the sky. I live in a neighborhood with a lot of light coming from houses and some street lights. You can even see stars in this picture.
I don't often do night photography, and my iPhone 13 mini insisted on a three second timer.
So I don't know if that is technical "cheating" but wow, those colors. These photos are not manipulated in any way other than the three second delay.
Some stars are visible here, too.
I think I can even see a small piece of green aurora in this picture.
I thank the co worker who texted me just after 10pm and told me to look at the sky. She lives up on a hill and I hope she had a better view.
Timing is everything. I went out again about 11pm and it was (surprise) cloudy.
How fortunate I was.
Joining Yogi and other sky watchers each Friday for #SkywatchFriday.
Some people in our local area saw the aurora borealis, surprisingly, as we are quite far south. When we went out to look, we saw nothing . . . well, just the usual night sky.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful
ReplyDelete...sadly, I was asleep.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous and beyond words sky photos ~ thanks,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
The colors are just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI actually didn't look as I assumed it would not be visible here near the Gulf Coast. But a memory that I treasure is the event that occurred when I was around twelve years old. My parents and I went out to look at it, and wow! I do not have adequate words to describe it. But I can see it vividly in my memory even now.
ReplyDeleteThe message went out on Bluesky, but I never did go out to look if I could see it. Last time we were too far south. Amazing skies.
ReplyDeleteYour photo got that color well!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lucky break to see the aurora! Seems amazing to me, but people in the Joshua Tree area were able to see the aurora last night. Wish I could have been out there!
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