I have spent all morning trying to make a panorama of two of
my aurora photos. It had to be done manually as the difference in time between
the two photos meant that I could only merge the stars OR the landscape
accurately. In the end the landscape had to win and the resultant picture covers
a horizontal field of view of about 180 degrees. It gives a very good impression
of how the auroral oval actually appeared (if you turned your head as far right
and then left as far as it would go).
To the naked eye, the green of the aurora was obvious but all
the other colours seemed to be silver and the “light pollution”was not obvious
at all.
Bill Hughes
It seems we must get away from Britain to see clear skies, and another recent trip to Iceland by Bill Hughes this time, enabled him to take these.
He was luckier than others in having 4 clear nights with aurorae each night. His Canon 600D had a 14mm F2.8 lens set at ISO 1600 exposing for 25sec for each. Processed using Auto Smart Fix, Noise Ninja and Star Spikes, with a little help from Photoshop.
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