Timelapse: 180º Aurora - a photo on Flickriver

Hanging out at Poker Flat last night, I learned the spare 180º field-of-view fisheye lenses (used for the allsky cameras) are nikon mount... So of course I put one on my camera and shot a timelapse.

Normally (i.e. for science purposes) you would point a lens like this straight up so you can see the entire sky. Here I decided to tilt it down a bit, which lost the southern horizon in favor of seeing a bit more ground. Now I'm not sure that was such a good idea, it didn't really add much to the shot.

This is just over 3 hours of real time. The lights on the ground are the TV crew from NHK filming a show about auroras (same cameramen that were with me on the sprites flights this summer!) They give you a good sense of how much the video is sped up, and consequently how fast the aurora is changing. There was a light dusting of snow at one point, and you can see the flakes on the lens near the end.

Click the HD button in the lower right to view in higher quality.

Click for all my aurora photos.And I has more timelapses if you like this one.

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Taken in: United States / Alaska / Fairbanks North Star Borough (show map)

Taken on: November 2, 2011

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