Mynydd y Gwair Wind Farm Aurora 07-10-15

[Psychobilly]

Just a quick rough of one of the 183 images form tonights display...

Mynydd y Gwair Wind Farm Aurora 07-10-15  P5D_4846 by Peter Smith, on Flickr

The PC's currently processing the raws with "PRIME" NR..  even a 12 Core 3 GPU beast with 64GB or Ram is taking a while... about 30s a frame.... and this is just the first "development" stage...

More pics and possibly an animation to follow over the next few days..

Peter...

[Astroscot2]

Cracking image Peter

[Psychobilly]

This site is only 5-10 mins form home so I wanted to check it out... There is also the "potential" of some foreground interest given time to setup...

The display with you in Glasgow must have been really spectacular.. this is the fist time I have seen moving patches of colour naked eye...

[JamesF]

Excellent

James

[John]

Super shot Peter

Where did you get those clear skies from ? - one bank of cloud after another here with only small "sucker gaps" in between them

[Psychobilly]

Quick rough 30x timelapse from jpegs 15s exposure rendered for 0.5s in the video... Click on the image to play via Flickr!

Myndd yr Gwair Aurora 07-10-2015 Video1 by Peter Smith, on Flickr

I will  work out how to do it properly tomorrow

[laudropb]

Lovely photo and animation. No sign of any Northern lights from Glasgow.

[JamesF]

Nice one

James

[Psychobilly]

Just one more for now... The initial edge on pillar was very clear naked eye

Again 30x normal speed Click image to play in Flickr!

Myndd yr Gwair Aurora 07-10-2015 Video2 by Peter Smith, on Flickr

[hobsey]

Lovely images Pete.

This is just a typical example of my bad luck.

This week I'm in a location where I finally get to see the lights and I miss it. Not happy.

[Psychobilly]

Just a  few to show how the  auroral display developed from just after sunset over a period of around 30 mins...

Mynydd y Gwair Wind Farm Aurora 07-10-15  18.48 GMT P5D_4739 by Peter Smith, on Flickr

Mynydd y Gwair Wind Farm Aurora 07-10-15  19.05 GMT P5D_4789 by Peter Smith, on Flickr

Mynydd y Gwair Wind Farm Aurora 07-10-15  19.10 GMT P5D_4844 by Peter Smith, on Flickr

One of the pics got posted on the BBC Wales News website...

Peter...