The Northern Lights descended upon Park City this evening. The impact of at least one of several recent CME's came during the daylight hours. We couldn't wait to see if skies would remain clear (which they did) and aurora would appear (which they did :) We received a call from Spaceweather.com and headed outside around 6:30pm. Who knows how many times the aurora spiked. We managed to catch a few. Here's the results of our effort.
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The following photos were captured using a Sony DSC-F717 digital camera at ISO100-400 for 15-30 second exposures @f/2. |
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| Note The Pleiades Star Cluster to the upper right | |
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| These approximately 30s exposures were captured with an Olympus OM1 through a 28mm lens at f/5.6 | |
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Click here to the last aurora to visit Park City
Click here to see more of our aurora pics
Or here to see what others around the world saw on the Spaceweather.com Aurora Gallery.
Finally, checkout Utah Skies extensive Aurora Image Library