Alright. Here they are. My aurora pictures. We got to Mile 162 on the Parks Highway around 10:45 last night and were welcomed by Quadrantids meteor shower. We set up the camera and waited. Around midnight, when checking the exposure of a constellation picture, I noticed the horizon in the photo was green. The aurora started so faint we couldn't even see it. That only lasted a few minutes, as soon the entire sky over us was a soft green. Then out of no where, the display exploded into activity and lasted about an hour. I wasn't able to capture any meteors on film, but that would have only been icing on the cake. The temperature was around -50 while we were out there.

Location ~ 63.06N 149.55W

For you photo people, all pics were taken in RAW format with 30 second exposures at f/3.8 ISO 400 with a Sigma 28-105mm manual focus lens at 28mm on a Nikon D40, no photo editing has been done.





















































ScanGauge during the drive up. Notice the intake air temperature. -28*F

 

Dude, great photos! You look all cozy in the back of the Fit! I've always wanted to see the borealis lights in person...someday...thanks for sharing it with us!

 

Thanks for sharing--

What amazing pictures. You guys didn't even look cold. Appreciate the info about exposure, too.

I guess there's no limit to where a Fit can take you.
Cheers!

Jon

 

wow killer pics... i think i could brave those temps for tht experience... that looks incredible... honda should do an ad with the fit up there and the lights like tht to show how killer the little car is!

 

wow that is amazing
thankyou for showing them with us!!!!!

+rep

 

213 pics at 25 second exposures, 35 seconds between each pic spanning 3 hours and 15 seconds at 10 FPS

 

so sick dude, almost looks alien-ish, kinda scary actually. It reminds me of being in the middle of the ocean how you can see all the stars...I wanna check that out! You're a lucky dude, and good use of the magic seats lol ;P

 

wow dude that was totally awesome.. umm its really dark there when you take a shot right?

 

Yeah, sun set around 3:30 where those pics were taken, by 6:00 it was black.

 

Peerrty. Too bad there are no aurora borielis (sp?) in the lower states.