< AURORA
HEAVENS
The most extraordinary aurora appeared on the 11th of October 2024. The CME that triggered the G4 (severe) geomagnetic storm was associated with an X1.8-class solar flare.
Uniting Church | Ross |Tasmania | Australia
The Heavens Overspread
Scott Bennett
11PM, 11/10/2024
Digital photograph
Nikon D750, 14 mm f/2.8, 10 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 1600
Lovely to have the moon when the aurora is so bright!
MORNING
Before twilight and into the dawn a blood red aurora appeared to the naked eye. The red colours were so bright, that camera images looked over saturated! The blue light of dawn combined with the red light to form deep magentas in the east.
Ross |Tasmania | Australia
Early Light
Scott Bennett
4:30 – 5:30AM, 11/10/2024
Digital photograph
Nikon D750, 14 mm f/2.8, 10 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 1600
“Aurora now had left her saffron bed, And beams of early light the heav’ns o’erspread, When, from a tow’r, the queen, with wakeful eyes, Saw day point upward from the rosy skies.” – Virgil
EVENING
Ross |Tasmania | Australia
High Beams
Scott Bennett
9PM, 11/10/2024
Digital photograph
Nikon D750, 14 mm f/2.8, 6 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 1600
I was out on the Midland Highway, about to take a shot of one of the Shadows of the Past* metal sculptures and Aurora with a telephoto. Suddenly the “storm” went big bright and wide! This is a two shot pano** covering well over a half of the sky from NE to SW. The Middle of frame is SE!
In the image “Up” the camera is pointed to the zenith!
Cenotaph
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Cenotaph