Thanks! Another video coming soon similar to this one. I'm getting to grips with the A7S and meteor video work. Very bad weather for the Geminids this year. Hopefully it will be good next year as the Moon is out of the way.

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It was lucky the clouds stayed away this time. With solar maximum now here we should be getting strong displays for at least the next few months. Perhaps not as good as this one but I'm sure there will be more displays visible from the south of the UK.

Cheers! Yea, there were a lot of orange colours visible, more so than the previous strong display in May. I saw more later in the night too, which will be in my second video. I just need time to put it all together 😁

Thanks! It was an unbelievable night. More to come in part 2 (when I get the time to create the video) 😄

Thanks! Yea, been cloudy here since then. Hopefully we'll get clear skies in the next few days for another go at the comet.

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Thanks! More to follow, as soon as I get a chance to put them together 😁

Thanks! I was lucky to have clear sky for the eclipse. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. Just the kind of thing that a timelapse shows really well. I did have a few telescope tracking issues, which led to the odd frame not fully matching the rest. I'll know for next time not to let it drift around too much.

Thanks for the kind words and glad you enjoyed the video - it was certainly an unforgettable night. Yea, I heard the AA podcast - always nice to get a mention on that excellent show. 😃

Thanks! We'll hopefully get a few more this season. It's shaping up to be a good one.

Thanks! It was a fairly good start to the season. For the wider angle shots I used a 16mm lens (probably too wide for a display that is low down like that one). There is another sequence that used a 24mm lens. The closer shots all used a 50mm lens.

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Cheers - hopefully we'll get a few more like that and the sky stays clear for them.

Nice one - it must have been great to see from a hill as you'd get a good context with the surrounding countryside. Hopefully your texts meant a few more people got to see it.

Thanks! I never thought I'd see such a display from the UK. Watching it, I was almost speechless, as you can tell! 😄

Indeed! Glad you liked my efforts. Everything seemed to fall into place - powerful solar storm hitting at the right time of night for the UK, clear skies, no Moon interfering, negative Bz all night etc. I think it hasn't fully sunk in yet for the community just how special the event was 😃

@@sjbastro 100%! We only lacked a unicorn!!

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Nice one! Magical is the perfect word for seeing that corona 😃

Thanks! Glad you liked it. I tried to do justice to the display. With most of my time lapse shots I find it works best to have the long exposure noise reduction on and use this as the interval. So, most of the corona shots were between 1s and 2s long so the interval was the same, plus a second or so for the camera to write the file. So, the very first corona shot was at 1.6s plus the same for the noise reduction. When I look at the files there seems to be 5s between each shot (it was a 550D and so a bit slow at writing the file). The west and east shots were similar but slightly longer exposure times of 1s to 3.2s. Some of the sequences make the aurora look a little 'fast' but in reality it was changing form pretty rapidly anyway so I thought I'd leave it in the video as is.

Those videos are all made up of individual photos put together as a time lapse.

Thanks! It was a stunning display and I took so many shots it seemed like a good idea to put a video together. Glad you liked it 😃👍

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Thanks! Glad you got to see the display. As we're not even at solar maximum yet there's a good chance we'll get another one or two that good in the next few months. Clear skies!

Thanks! One of the brighter displays I've seen this season. Overall it has been a bit disappointing this year, with displays reduced in number and intensity. I was glad to have caught this one though.

Thanks. It has been a bit difficult this year and now we are pretty much at the end of the season. Did you manage to catch any displays?

@@sjbastro I managed one snap of them between the clouds on my phone one night, but no “proper” images. Just lots of failed outings! C’est la vie - if it was easy, everyone would be doing it!

Thanks! We're at the end of the season now, pretty much anyway. I managed to catch a few displays but it was a bit hit and miss when they'd appear. It will be interesting to see if things improve next year.

Thanks! I should make more effort to upload them and not wait months to do so :-) I have another one I think to do from last season that has some close-up shots too. Hopefully we'll get another good season but with the solar activity I'm not so sure. All we can do is keep watching. Clear skies!

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Thanks - yea, meteors are seldom cooperative with my camera position! 😄

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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :-)