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[quote="Knight of Clear Skies" post_id=330535 time=1682439893 user_id=143544]
Managed to see it from the Southern UK and get this 2 hour timelapse:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/_9M3nIdcJVQ[/youtube]

Unfortunately I'd had a couple beers so couldn't drive up to the moors to find a better vantage point. Glad I set up the camera though.
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You made the right decision, and you got a cool video out of it anyway!

Here is an [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/fap/image/2304/NlightsSeurope_Cordero.mp4]encompassing video[/url] taken by the astrophotographer on the night the APOD-featured image was taken: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/fap/image/2304/NlightsSeurope_Cordero.mp4

- RJN

I think today's APOD is a very beautiful image. I like the colors and the fact that the light parts are not too bright and the dark parts are not too dark (I think there's a term for that but I can't remember it at the moment). It seems to be perfectly balanced to my non-photographer eyes.

[quote="Knight of Clear Skies" post_id=330535 time=1682439893 user_id=143544]
Managed to see it from the Southern UK and get this 2 hour timelapse:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/_9M3nIdcJVQ[/youtube]

Unfortunately I'd had a couple beers so couldn't drive up to the moors to find a better vantage point. Glad I set up the camera though.
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Nice video! Thanks for sharing it with us.

And thanks for being responsible and choosing not to drive. :D

Managed to see it from the Southern UK and get this 2 hour timelapse:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9M3nIdcJVQ[/youtube]
https://youtu.be/_9M3nIdcJVQ

Unfortunately I'd had a couple beers so couldn't drive up to the moors to find a better vantage point. Glad I set up the camera though.

That "blue aurora over [url=https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=195526]Alaska[/url]" link sure looked like a pure GREEN aurora to me until I maxed out my display brightness to reveal the slight blue tinges toward the upper left!

[quote="Cousin Ricky" post_id=330531 time=1682427619 user_id=141376]
[quote="APOD Robot" post_id=330526 time=1682395602 user_id=128559]
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What about southern lights from northern skies? Come to think of it, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen photos of the aurora australis.
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Yeah, strange wording. This is about seeing the northern lights in low latitude northern skies. Hardly southern skies!

I've seen quite a few images of southern auroras from New Zealand, and probably other southern locations. It's just that where the southern lights are visible there are hugely fewer people to observe or photograph them (or even land to observe from) than in the north.

[quote="APOD Robot" post_id=330526 time=1682395602 user_id=128559]
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What about southern lights from northern skies? Come to think of it, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen photos of the aurora australis.

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230425.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_230425.jpg[/img] [size=150]Northern Lights over Southern Europe[/size][/url]

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