Juliancolton

Cool VIIRS nighttime image showing the band of aurora over southern Canada this morning. A wider and less pronounced view: and IR from the same time, for reference:

Yup. f/2.4 and ISO 1250 for 15 seconds, unedited jpeg. I'd be happy to give you some suggestions if you decide to start looking into new gear, though in today's day any basic dslr and lens kit would probably produce some decent results.

Here's the "best" shot of the night, out of something like 400. Kind of a deeper shade of green than I'm used to... more in-line with what someone would use for St. Paddy's Day. Festive!

Well at least we weren't let down after eagerly anticipating a major event for 72 hours or something (that's happened enough this cycle. I had almost forgotten about this CME until the indices started going bonkers this morning.

I know for a fact that the Nikon D610 is very clean up to 6400, and useable much higher... and that's a "prosumer" model, not by any means top-of-theline. It's just outrageous the amount of information that modern digital sensors are able to glean from what are essentially stray photons. I mostly use my old D5000 on nights like tonight, when "good enough" quality will suffice, and I'll be leaving it by itself at times. It's definitely noisier, but one can generally compensate for mediocre cameras with a fast enough lens.

Hard drive crash? Either way, that looks truly awesome.

Yeah? Wow, I didn't realize that. I only had a passing interest back then, so I don't think I spent more than a few moments looking upward for that one. It's pretty incredible to read the accounts of zenithal coronas over Chicago and NYC in 1859, 1882, etc., knowing how difficult it is to even see diffuse greens on the horizon. I got lazy and hooked my camera up to an intervalometer for some warmup time indoors. Will check again in a bit.

Very faint green curtain structure on my LCD. After years of trying to catch the odd spike to Kp 7, I'm not sure what I expected hours and hours of Kp 8 to look like, but it sure wasn't this. lol

My camera sensor is seeing increasingly funky colors on the northern horizon. Going to stay on the lookout for a substorm. Sure is cold and blustery though... quite conducive to aurora chasing.

Bz straddling neutral now. Congrats Iqaluit.

Ugh... it literally never fails. Almost sickening if it started getting meh right as dark falls after looking so good all day. At least the other parameters still look decent.

Wing Kp model back up and predicting Kp 9 in four hours. Good good.

The storming has sustained itself better than I expected it would. Kp 7 into this evening would be more than acceptable.

The Wing Kp data has been missing for several hours per http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/text/wing-kp.txt. Not sure what's up with that.

How can you have any idea what the storm will be like?

I have a geological newbie question–what would cause an earthquake to be felt in a residential building on one street (and not just "felt", but seriously shaken up), but not even a noticeable tremor on the next street? The obvious answer is that it has something to do with the underlying rock formations, but I'd like to know specifically if elevation, etc. has anything to do with it. FWIW I'm about 75 miles north of NYC.

-8 this morning at KPOU (don't know if that's been mentioned yet) and expected to get even colder tonight.

That sucks; I hope everything works out for you guys. 23F here, warming very very gradually.

Gotta make people work for it. Thanks!

–5F again this morning at Dutchess County Airport. I got some pictures of the Hudson River completely frozen over that I posted in the relevant thread, if anyone's seen it (in the NYC forum).

This is getting old. –5 here at Dutchess County Airport this morning at about 6 am.

I'm gonna call it 14" here in eastern Dutchess. Amazingly quick dump... I went to bed at 11:30 and it was just starting, and the radar was nearly dry by the time I got up at 8:45.

The difference is Bloomburg isn't running for reelection, whereas the Feb 1969 storm put a good dent in Lindsey's political career.