Man-Made Auroras

[Celestron]

At 6:00am this morning the humidity was @ 89% and it was 40-degs so looked liked fog . I thought this colorful sky looked like Auroras but no...:( , just man-made from street lights and a storage company in the background behind the houses . Only wish to see Auroras someday :cool: . Mounted the 300D on a tripod and took some panaroma shots and stitched 4 images making this one image . Each was 3.2-sec , f/5.6 , 800 ISO , with the 18-55mm @ 18mm . Comments welcome !

[Adrena1in]

Wow, lovely colours. I went out for a drive Tuesday night when it was quite foggy, and drove through a village with a football stadium, and the floodlights made it look like the whole area was engulfed in a dome of water...I wish I'd had my camera with me.

[Celestron]

Yeah i can only imagine what a real Aurora looks like :D ! They were pretty colors tho , too bad it was in town :( .

[Nighthound]

Nice pano Ron. The colors are great.

I live in an area that has boomed population and development wise in the past 10-15 years. The difference in the night sky is sad to see. Even 6 years ago I could set up at home and the sky wasn't bad, but now I don't even consider it.

[Celestron]

Thanks Steve ! I very seldom ever see this so took my chance this morn and shot a round . Pretty neat to see the different colors of LP .

[ArcticShooter]

Great image. You should come over and visit for the real thing

[kaitanium]

awesome!!! hey if you fly from texas to London or something you may be able to see it....maybe though i dunno what flightpath those airplanes take from there.
heres a shot on board my flight from SFO-LHR on british airways and i saw it! blurry images but oh well...

i bet arctic shooter has a even better perspective!!! gosh. im jealous

http://s94753452.onlinehome.us/gal035864780/europe2008/theflight/img_9828-edit.jpg

[Celestron]

Great image. You should come over and visit for the real thing

Oh how i wish i could :D !! Someday i hope !

[Celestron]

awesome!!! hey if you fly from texas to London or something you may be able to see it....maybe though i dunno what flightpath those airplanes take from there.
heres a shot on board my flight from SFO-LHR on british airways and i saw it! blurry images but oh well...

i bet arctic shooter has a even better perspective!!! gosh. im jealous

http://s94753452.onlinehome.us/gal035864780/europe2008/theflight/img_9828-edit.jpg

WOW :shock: , at least you saw one and it's not a bad image at all !

[ArcticShooter]

awesome!!! hey if you fly from texas to London or something you may be able to see it....maybe though i dunno what flightpath those airplanes take from there.
heres a shot on board my flight from SFO-LHR on british airways and i saw it! blurry images but oh well...

i bet arctic shooter has a even better perspective!!! gosh. im jealous

http://s94753452.onlinehome.us/gal035864780/europe2008/theflight/img_9828-edit.jpg

I must say that this is a great shot considering it was taken from an airplane :)

[kaitanium]

lol i had to use my gorillapod in a weird position (with legs bracing against the window side panels) to get it. not to mention i have to cover myself and the camera up with a blanket to reduce interior reflections on the windows.

hahah good thing people were all asleep and good thing i was sitting in premium economy with more room to move around lol.

but yea, take that flight. it was quite the experience and a very nice surprise when i looked out the window in bored as ive always wanted to see the aurora too