April 17/18, 2001 aurora, taken from home in Alberta. Looking straight up at zenith. 28mm wide-angle lens at f/2.8 Fujichrome Provia 100F slide film (ultra-fine grained, the finest on the market) exposure 40 seconds. Colors and contrast punched up but not excessively. Taken near the peak of substorm burst which started at midnight and lasted about 10 minutes. This aurora was the result of a major flare that let off on the Sun on Easter Sunday. Big Dipper at top, and zenith point below it
April 17/18, 2001 aurora, taken from home in Alberta. looking south. Part of a series taken looking same direction as substorm hit and subsided, from Image #2 to #15, on Roll #1. (Roll #2 was second camera shooting Provia 100F with 28mm lens and 18mm lens.) All images in this series (#1-02 thru 15) processed in Photoshop with nearly identical enhancements to contrast and colour. Brightness toned down for longer overexposed shots (early ones). This shot: 16mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/3.5 Ektachrome E200 slide film Exposure 40 seconds Colors and contrast punched up but not excessively. Taken near the peak of substorm burst which started at midnight and lasted about 10 minutes. This aurora was the result of a major flare that let off on the Sun on Easter Sunday. Big Dipper (cut off) at top, and zenith point below it, so vertical dimension takes in well over 90° sweep from horizon to well past zenith to north. This frame had some bad scratches near the zenith point which were rubber stamped out in Photoshop.
March 30, 2001 Great Aurora, seen all over North America Taken from home in southern Alberta, Canada 18mm Nikkor lens at f/2.8 Ektachrome E200 slide film about 40s second exposure looking west and straight up #32 thru 35 taken in quick succession. Castor and Pollux above house. Quarter Moon was low in west just behind house kept out of the field. Foreground brightened slightly. Number in file name is frame number on roll in order taken thru the display. Numbers higher than 36 = frame on second roll taken that night (i.e. 39 = #3 on second roll)
