< 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.

church in aurora

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.

pink aurora

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

Red aurora
orange aurora
magenta aurora
aurora from midland highway

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

Such a thrill to get this shot! I’d written: “Recently, very strong and bright Aurora have changed these requirements. For example, it would be possible to take a photo in brightly lit spots close to the foreground objects like the cenotaph” – Ross by Night: Night Sky & Aurora Photography
 
**14mm on full-frame camera
aurora at zenith

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Ross cenotaph with aurora

Cenotaph

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