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Last night was a frigid, totally clear sky night and the northern lights forecast said low solar activity. So I pointed our IP camera north and bashed out a few scripts to record continuously and create a long-exposure star trail photo, hoping to have a really clean star trail. Yes, I have nothing better to do at night...

Turns out, we did get northern lights - and some light pillars too. So technically my clean star trail is ruined. But the image still looks cool.

At least that gave me an opportunity to make a timelapse video of the northern lights with the source images I used for the star trail, which you can see here.

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[–] thenewred@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Anyone know what those big flashes are? The "stars" in the picture without trails. I saw one of them in the video as a bright flash.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago

Aircraft probably. The airport is 20 mi south of here and quite a few airplane routes head due north.

[–] dyslexicdainbroner@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Geosynchronous satellites

[–] LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's really cool actually. How far north are you?

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

Roughly at the arctic circle.