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Aurora from the Highway Panorama (Aug 4, 2024).jpg

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A 180° panorama of a Kp5-level aurora on a partly cloudy night, August 3-4, 2024. This was looking to the northeast at 3:00 AM MDT from a side road off the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) in southern Alberta just east of Brooks. The aurora exhibits the classic green oxygen arc of the auroral oval and here topped by a higher red oxygen glow and blue sunlit rays from glowing nitrogen. The Pleiades star cluster is rising in the east at right.

This was shot on the drive home from a Milky Way shoot with a tour group from Neil Zeller Photo Tours, thus the tour van. The aurora was active all night, and this was one of two stops along the way home to shoot the aurora during bright outbursts.

TECHNICAL:
This is a panorama of 7 segments, each 13 seconds at f/2 with the Viltrox 16mm lens on the Nikon Z6III at ISO 800. Stitched with PTGui which still had diffculty aligning and blending the segments due to the lens distortions warping the power lines. A lot of manual adjustments to the segment masks were needed! Lesson — Don't shoot panoramas with power lines!
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A 180° panorama of a Kp5-level aurora on a partly cloudy night, August 3-4, 2024. This was looking to the northeast at 3:00 AM MDT from a side road off the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) in southern Alberta just east of Brooks. The aurora exhibits the classic green oxygen arc of the auroral oval and here topped by a higher red oxygen glow and blue sunlit rays from glowing nitrogen. The Pleiades star cluster is rising in the east at right. <br /> <br /> This was shot on the drive home from a Milky Way shoot with a tour group from Neil Zeller Photo Tours, thus the tour van. The aurora was active all night, and this was one of two stops along the way home to shoot the aurora during bright outbursts.<br /> <br /> TECHNICAL:<br /> This is a panorama of 7 segments, each 13 seconds at f/2 with the Viltrox 16mm lens on the Nikon Z6III at ISO 800. Stitched with PTGui which still had diffculty aligning and blending the segments due to the lens distortions warping the power lines. A lot of manual adjustments to the segment masks were needed! Lesson — Don't shoot panoramas with power lines!