Prof. Sam LawlerI saw southern auroras last night!!!! Rakiura! Holy cow that was AMAZING
(View from a bit south of Arthur's Pass, New Zealand)
(Follow up note: it was just barely visible to the naked eye, and just looked totally white with maybe a hint of red. A camera was required to see the colours)
Oh, and here's one from just a few minutes earlier that is full of satellite streaks 😭
Otte Homan - remember Geordie@sundogplanets ... Ok, so here's an idea: take astro image. Identify each streak (should be easy if timestamp is 1s accurate). Start recording GPU time. Remove streaks. Stop recording CPU time. Calculate GPU hours. Calculate marginal costs. Add overhead (staff, infra, etc). Add two zeros. Charge sat owner for "waste removal services". ?
Patrick Herd@sundogplanets Is that the first time you have seen the Australis?
Roy -- the dull oneSo you did see some alien spacecraft!
soean@sundogplanets
Well, for me those "travelling stars" are just nice little guys, when I sit outside stargazing. So far I know it's childish, but it feels good then.
So those lines in your picture are just greetings from my nighttime friends 😉
Perhaps that helps a bit.
Well, for me those "travelling stars" are just nice little guys, when I sit outside stargazing. So far I know it's childish, but it feels good then.
So those lines in your picture are just greetings from my nighttime friends 😉
Perhaps that helps a bit.
neville park@alikatze @sundogplanets we already have "wandering stars" they're called planets!!!!!!!! https://www.etymonline.com/word/planet
And we have #portishead
@sundogplanets interesting, I've never looked into it before. Do you need a camera modified for IR or something to see the colors or just long exposure?
Eugene 
@ryan @sundogplanets Just a long exposure is enough, with the result like this: https://eugene-andrienko.com/assets/static/aurora4.jpg
With just a hooman eye, not affected by light sources at near half an hour, the aurora can be seen like this: https://eugene-andrienko.com/assets/static/ladoga3.jpg
At least on my 60º of north latitude
Linus Gasser@sundogplanets thank you so much for the awesome picture, and the explanation.
Last time we had these lights visible in Switzerland I was very disappointed to see all those nice pictures, but nothing with my eyes.
It took me some time to realize cameras are more sensitive than our eyes, with a loooong exposure.