AstroNebulee

That's good to hear, let us know how it goes, I've yet to update my dedicated phone for my scope yet. Clear skies Lee

Thank you, I will have try and find it somewhere on catch up to watch. Hope your ok. Clear skies Lee

Brilliant, I'm so pleased you managed to capture it down here in Cornwall too. Clear skies Lee

Wow! How amazing Paul. Such a beautiful image and timelapse. Clear skies Lee

Thank you. That is a real shame about the smoke and flat battery. I'll be looking forward to seeing your images. Clear skies Lee

Thank you Paul that very kind of you to say. It as a shame the Aurora readings didn't hold on from earlier in the evening. Let Cornwall be the new Norway 😂 Hope you're well. Clear skies Lee

Hi A timelapse and still from the completely short Aurora on 19-4-24 here in Delabole, North Cornwall. Completely washed out by the bright moon. Blink and you'll miss it but Aurora was seen. But 2 Aurora events in 3 days here is nothing to be sniffed and so chuffed, even if this one didn't live up to expectations and was quickly over. Taken with Canon 600D and Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens 6 sec exposures at 1600iso. Cheers and clear skies Lee Aurora Timelapse 19-4-24.mp4

It's beautiful Paul. So enchanting. Top work on continuing to build on an already brilliant image. 👏 Clear skies Lee

Thank you Geraint, that's lovely of you to say. It was a bit of guess work your right. Just great to get some aurora this far south. Clear skies Lee

Thank you guys, I'm blown away by your kind comments. I'm just so pleased you both enjoyed it. I do enjoy Widefield astrophotography with the simplicity of a camera, lens and tripod. Clear skies Lee

Finally I was able to get out to image my first milky-way of the season. Following the rain of the evening that as forecasted passed over and led to clear skies from 12am right though the night. I set off at 2am to my best milky-way imaging site overlooking the village quarry. Though the moon was just past the first quarter and bright, I had time to take in the perfect silence and wildlife noises of the owls, foxes, bat's and scurrying rabbits. I took my static tripod and dslr and as a quick experiment my alt az az with dslr bracket to see if I could get 1min exposures with no star trails on my samyang 14mm f2.8 lens. Success so something to work on next time for the core. I then set up my static tripod, Canon 600D with Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens and took some long exposure foregrounds whilst I waited for the moon to get lower and the milky-way to rise higher as the moon was really blowing it out. Eventually the moon set enough to crack on. I have manged to capture 3 sets of landscape panoramic 5 panels in each and 1 portrait panoramic set of 8 or 9 panels for processing. The latter finishing imaging just as the dawn was beginning to try and end the darkness up in the east. So probably around 30 minutes of good darkness before that happened. It was lovely to see Scorpio and Antares, the teapot asterim, the great rift through Cygnus, Aquila and Lyra again after such a long time. It's even better now looking south, that the town 3 miles away in that direction now turn off almost all their streetlights at night. 😊 So I packed up and headed home for a coffee to warm up, with the dawn chorus starting up and the belt of Venus in its early stages. Though chuffing cold by the end of it and lots of dew, good job the dew heater did its job admirably. A most enjoyable session though I'm going to be knackered later at work. Thank you for getting this far on my ramblings. Clear skies. Lee

That's a cracking image and lovely seeing that line of craters. Not seen that before. Thank you. Lee

Hope you feel better soon Mike, lovely images and report. Lee

Thank you 😊. Hopefully next time you'll get the Aurora. I would of stopped by 11pm if I didn't see the alert on Auroa hunters uk on crapbook. Maybe a couple more opportunities before darkness ends soon. Good luck and clear skies. Thank you Paul you're far to kind 😊though I wouldn't go as far as legend haha (maybe next time I'll remember to put the iso up 🙄) but I'm slowly learning and get a lot more joy from Widefield imaging and the inspiration you provide me. Also I now use the long exposure noise reduction on the foreground images as you describe in your journals and much easier, thank you. I'm looking forward to your next one. Clear skies and hope you're all well. Lee

On Tuesday 16th April I went l Aurora hunting. Just before 11pm I was going to pack up my dslr after only getting mainly pink diffuse aurora. Then upon checking all the Aurora apps and page on crapbook I saw that there was to be a huge surge in activity. Then from 11pm to 12pm a huge show evolved with a pillar just visible with averted vision. I was freezing by the end of the session but well rewarded. At least I brought my stool and remembered my dew strap this time. Heres one of the better images of the main show. Taken with Canon 600D and Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens on a static tripod. Sky 8 secs at 800iso f2.8 (should of gone higher on the iso but didn't want moon to wash the sky out, sadly I got it wrong) Foreground 30 secs 1600iso F4 with long exposure noise reduction. Blended and tweaked in photoshop. Worth a click and turn on the image and timelapse. Cheers Lee Aurora timelapse 16-4-24.mp4