Part-time prevaricator
The aurora data looked pretty decent last night, but I was tired. So I set up a camera in the spare bedroom, pointed east, and let it click away.
I ended up with 3000+ images in a bit over 4 hours. The timelapse video below is, as usual, 60× normal speed, so that 1 second of video is 1 minute of real time.
The aurora was everywhere. These photos are taken facing in all directions.
The top photo is a 7‑image panorama, facing due west. The photos of the trains passing are both facing south.
Continue reading “Remembrance Day light show”
Not even the full moon could overwhelm the northern lights tonight.
I shot until my batteries all died. I was glad I’d thought to grab a toque, but I would’ve appreciated heavier gloves, too.
Continue reading “Aurora, Nov. 5, 2025”
The heat-sensitive black bars on my banned books mug no longer change colour, so all the titles remain visible no matter what. All the books are unbanned.
I’m OK with this. I hope one day the rest of the world is, too.
Cleaning out a box in the office, and what do I find? That’s right, my kindergarten photo.
It was clear and the comet was almost due west. The image above is a stack of 11 images, each one shot at 250mm, 5 seconds, f/5.6, ISO 6400.
As I was going to bed last night, I took a look out the window. The forecast had said it was supposed to be partly cloudy overnight, but the sky looked pretty clear. I set up a camera in the spare room, pointed out the window, and let it snap away. I figured I’d get some star trails out of it if nothing else.
The aurora decided to make an appearance. It was just getting ramped up when my camera battery died around 2:30am, but I got a couple good shots out of it.
Oh, and the star trails turned out pretty good, too. They’re at the top, and are taken from about the first hour and a half of the evening.
The video below is the full two hours and thirty-six minutes, but it runs at 60x so that one second of video is one minute of real[1]Whatever that might mean, relativistically. time.
Footnotes
| ↑1 | Whatever that might mean, relativistically. |
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Well, it happened again.
As usual, in the timelapse below, one second of video is one minute of real time.
Thanks, Neal, for showing me a new spot, and for hanging out in the dark with me for an hour or so.
I caught some more northern lights last night.
The brightest part of the show didn’t last very long, but I let my cameras snap away for a bit less than an hour, and put together a time-lapse video. One second of video is one minute of real time; there’s a cut about ¾ of the way through the video, from camera 1 to camera 2.
Hoss[1]Our name for any of the wild rabbits we see around town. Short for “hasenpfeffer”. came and chilled in our yard for a while. Above is a photo of a biiiiiiiiiig stretch last evening.
He was there this morning at 8:30.
And he didn’t look like he’d moved much by 1 pm.
He had departed by 4:30 pm, but something tells me he’ll be back.
I guess I’d better read this, which a friend has kindly lent to me. (Thanks, Caryl!)
Footnotes
| ↑1 | Our name for any of the wild rabbits we see around town. Short for “hasenpfeffer”. |
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