What did it look like in person?
this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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Shot on Sony a7iii, quickly edited in Affinity Photo
Yeah these mega saturated pics are unbelievably disingenuous
It's like one-upmanship of "the aurora I saw was way more colourful than the one you saw, you must be so jealous"
🤮
They're not mega saturated, they're overexposed, which isn't atypical when photographing at night. Most pictures you'd see of the milky way were captured this way.
The original one containing every color of the fucking rainbow is definitely oversaturated
I brought the brightness of the photo up for sure here so that it looks interesting and not dim/dull on your display.
I can tell you from experience though that we were able to see the red, blue, violet, green, and sometimes the yellow on the horizon unaided. Put simply, it was incredible and I wanted this photo to provide the same feeling.
Here’s a photo I transferred to my phone with the transfer app doing a simple jpeg conversion. 2.5 second exposure at ISO 5000, 36mm:
This is perhaps slightly brighter than what I recall seeing on the horizon.
Here in the Midwest, I got a lovely view of....
Clouds.
Holy hell, this is probably the worst edit of the aurora I've seen
Lies
Aw man, it came and I missed it? I need more details. About what time? Where at? Facing which direction? I kept an eye out last night but didn't see anything before bed.
They're going to be visible again tonight
Basically find a dark place and look to the North (though many of my family and friends saw them while being in the city)
Depending on how far south you are in the state it should be visible
I'm in Washington so it was much easier to see. Though I went to bed early and missed it too.
I thought I would have to look north but I saw the majority of them in Vancouver looking almost straight up
Yeah, for us they were pretty much straight up too.
Was it very visible to your naked eye here? Away from light pollution a bit?
Not trying to reveal specifics, just curious!
Driving 40 minutes east of Bend brought us down to zero light pollution.
Unless you are in an area with low light pollution, it doesn't look like it does in photos. You can't exactly increase the exposure time of your eyeballs :D
You see like purple/orange streaks in the sky, still beautiful, but the cameras exaggerate it.
Okay, because I got an acceptable amount of aurora after adding the "enhance" filter on my Pixel, taken from my driveway, through light pollution of town. But I couldn't see shit but faint streaks. I could tell it was dancin'..
Dang I'm in a northern climate and though we get them occasionally I've never seen anything like what people have been posting. Typically I see green and blue dancing waves, but this looks like a full sky, full color gradient. Looks absolutely amazing!