That sunset looks familiar

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Yup. When the bz is negative that’s your best bet for aurora.

Best of luck to you. Should be pretty active tonight. Look for a negative -bz.

Yeah it’s been killer out there lately as well. I was out there last night

That is all true. It’s definitely a grind. December and January are the toughest. But The bonus is I only work 8 months a year

Basically it’s a total crap shoot. You wanna plan around a new moon if possible and elevated solar data.

I always have my own music going. Usually some above and beyond trance type stuff

Thank you for your service 🫡

Anywhere outside of Wasilla gets pretty dark quickly. Old Glenn is a good spit

Bingo !

What is that?

Anchorage is like any other medium sized city in America. Except it’s more beautiful. Lol. Feel free to message me directly if you want to know any specifics

Anything over 500 for solar wind speed. 20 density. It’s really not too complicated once you figure it out a little bit but at first all the scientific lingo can def be a bit overwhelming

That specific night there reds were really intense., probably the reddest I’ve see. This is caused by denser solar winds creating aurora at really high atmospheric levels. Usually below the reds is where the whites form, so often you’ll get all sorts of reds/pinks.

You try to, typically an aurora shot on an average night is 3-5 seconds. When it starts moving around even less because you want to capture the motion and if you leave the shutter open it just turns into a blob of color. This specific photo the exposure time was 6/10th of a second, and I had to lower the whites and highlights considerably in post to keep them from blowing out. When the aurora gets this bright, it’s like pointing your camera at a full moon basically.

You’re very welcome. Glad you like it

Ahh yeah the rules can be a bummer sometimes. Especially when you get killer corona direct over head!

Thank you!

Sure Knock yourself out !

You can def catch em early morning sometimes too maybe you’ll get lucky and see them on your way into work!

Many thanks 🙏

Thank you!

Definitely got lucky with being there at that time. It was one of the strongest storms in years

To me it sounds like a cross between high tension power lines and a bee buzzing