Paul M

That's smooth!

How many frames per minute was that?

My own allsky camera gathered some great images but I have it set for 30 sec delay because I have the max exposure set to 25 sec, which on a dark night is great for general timelapse. Unfortunately, for the Big Aurora, that was a bit lot too long. The Aurora was so bright that the auto exposure was down to only 2 or 3 seconds, so I could have recorded many more frames = smoother timelapse.

I was too busy watching the display with my eyeballs to even think about tweaking the allsky. 

26 minutes ago, PeterW said:

Hope we don’t have to wait 20yrs for the next one .

I don't expect to see anything like that ever again. It was the third significant display I 've seen in 50 years of looking and by far the best. Many years ago I saw an overhead "corona" for a short while, but nothing like the intensity and sky coverage of 10th/11th.

Of course I could travel to arctic regions to ensure i get another display in my lifetime...  

A large part of the drive for building an allsky camera was to capture aurorae and other special events. In that respect, it's already performed beyond my hopes and expectations! 

Like the song says. "Oh what a night..!"

Not that I saw galaxy season this year, but generally it's lost to gradually encroaching twilight for me.

I won't bother setting up the toys again until August, unless something very exciting happens that is worth bother for a short period of near darkness.

No panic, the last time I set up for a session was in mid January and that got cut short by a family upset

My remote Cumbrian Allsky cam picked up a faint red aurora, seen at it's brightest here at 01:35am (BST). The lights of Penrith lighting up the rain drops, plus I now have the added bonus, one of the neighbours up there has strung out a line of fairly lights running the length of the guttering... 

That's also causing some of the flaring...

And finally the timelapse from Cumbria

Another from the allsky camera.

Allsky camera just now. Wall to wall.

Home sky is calming down. Less definition but auroral glow everywhere!

Phone camera resting on my work boot. Overhead corona

It's dazzling the allsky camera. Too bright!

Overhead red corona. Bright naked eye

Get outside now. Mega aurora storm...

Allsky camera picking up an overhead red glow in Cumbria.

My remote allsky camera has had some aurora success this spring but there isn't a lot of astronomical darkness up there now. 

Hopefully it'll still be clear around midnight.

2 minutes ago, Xilman said:

What on earth do you mean? 🤨

You haven't forgot the Cosmic Horseshoe already, surely? 😉

And what was that, I spent hours and hours and hours digging deep for?  Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà . I got it though, cost me my marriage, my job and my sanity 🤣

1 minute ago, Taman said:

I'm not sure how deep I want to go down the rabbit hole that @Xilman suggested, but it's interesting to see what my 21 year old SCT is capable of. I also like doing pretty images for Astrobin, so probably not too deep! 😁

I've engaged in a few projects suggested by Paul (Xilman) and they have all been DEEP! But that suits my imaging and processing style. Not good a extended objects but I can eek out tiny, exotic subjects.

I had a play with it in Photshop using my special technique of pushing buttons until something changes.

Probably cropped it too close and stretched it too far. But you'll see your own effort in a new light

Brilliant!

I wouldn't know where to start.

That's very nicely done.

It's maybe my imagination but M81 seems to ha little out of fashion in recent times. My own experience of imaging M81 has not been positive. I've been very dissapointed with my efforts and I suspect my primary failing has been in processing. I've turned quite promising subs into a stack of garbage! So it's always nice to see it done well

P.S. Don't listen to @Xilman, your imaging life will never be the same again! 🤣 

7 minutes ago, Earl said:

Press play it fades in.

Not for me. The play button isn't active and the video length is reported as 0.00!

That's with Chrome on Ubuntu.

I've already posted this Allsky time-lapse on a thread showcasing the aurora from the night of 02/03 May: 

@Earl Has been playing with time-lapses and star-trails, which reminded me that I haven't played with the star-trail generating script in the Allsky software I use on my RasPi.

So here it is, the image generated for the same 02/03 overnight period. The collective glow of the aurora illuminating the leftside/north horizon. What this mode does do is highlight the meteors and satelite glints. I'm not fully convinced any of the main meteor like trails are meteors. Their fade-in and fade-out profiles are too similar. Not terminal like. Anyway, it's all very pretty, if of no scientific value

I'm not seeing anything. It's an empty image file.

1 minute ago, scotty1 said:

There's no sound I can't hear the gears whirring.

I must be imagining things then...🙂

Here is last nights allsky timelapse. North to the left.

The glow at upper left is Penrith. It's light now severely affecting my once dark-sky location. The plane tracks are mostly self evident and most of the other meteorish, single frame, trails are satellite flares. I'll have a closer look, frame by frame later but the ones I've investigated so far look very satelitish. I'm guessing the bright object arcing to the right, going into dawn in ISS.

Anyway, I remember a time when the sky looked like this with just my own eyeballs. I never get bored of this stuff. If you listen closely you can hear the celestial gears whirring...

There was another nice aurora last night.

I been previewing the images from my remote allsky camera in Cumbria. Having a bit of a struggle to download one to my phone just now. But here is a screen grab of a frame at about 01.50. Some detail is evident so I think the timelapse will be nice. The lonely RasPi will churn that out later and I'll post it after I get out of bed after this night shift.