The Aurora Australis Viewpoint I Wish I'd Found Sooner

[@dublinnnn]

oh man this looks sooo beautiful

[@TomWoodwardVideos]

Cheers dude 🤙

[@andrewbayley1689]

We had the red up in Nelson. Fantastic!

[@TomWoodwardVideos]

Nice. I thought it was cool when I was marvelling at the red straight above us to get photos in real time from Nelson showing that they could see it on the horizon.

[@DanielleGlick]

That's awesome of you to share the location so others could find it! I remember many a night living in Queenstown trying to figure out where I should go to watch the aurora, but I thought that hill was a construction site at the time. Wish I was still there!

[@TomWoodwardVideos]

Thanks for the comment 🤙🤙

[@bush600r2]

Looks awesome Tom, great footage. I'm gutted i missed the big one this year but hadn't realized there was just another a couple weeks ago! Where can you check to get notified when they are coming here in NZ please? Thanks I'm in the top of the south. Regards Tim.

[@TomWoodwardVideos]

Just search Aurora Forcast into the Playstore or Appstore on your phone. That will show up a bunch of apps for prediciting the aurora. Apparently we're in a high solar activity phase for the next year or two so there should be more chances to see it. Pretty cool seeing it in Nelson, it's rare that far north.

[@newbee1016]

That was some awesome video. I also got some amazing photos on the 11th Oct here in Victoria. I had views to the SW around to the SE, it was awesome. I am thinking about putting then into a time laps. What size lens did you have?

[@TomWoodwardVideos]

Cheers, it was just a Sony e-mount 24mm f2.8. Would have liked something more wide angle but didn’t need the low f point because it was so bright in the 2 main shows. Will keep and eye out for your time lapses 🤙

[@newbee1016]

@@TomWoodwardVideos I have an 18mm x 50mm @2.8 Sigma and the Aurora filled up the whole screen and then some. I have my eye on a 10-20 3.5 lens, I have been playing around with 3.5 on the 18mm and it appears to be okay at pics of the Aurora's, seeing that they are usually fairly bright, so I am thinking that the 10-20 may be okay. It's a work in progress like the time laps, I will have to do a lot more home work on how to put it together.

[@TomWoodwardVideos]

@@newbee1016 I’ve got a sigma 30mm f1.4. I brought it up and tried to use it for the Aurora but found it was too zoomed in. I only have a crop sensor on the Sony A6300 though so that makes it worse. About the time lapses a lot of the cameras come with built in software for it. I tend to just take lots of photos though and use a free app in the Mac App Store to put it together into a clip.

[@newbee1016]

@@TomWoodwardVideos Yeah the Samsung S23 Ultra has hyperlapse built in so I am going to have a play with that one night before an Aurora is here to see how it works. There are videos on it so I will study them up.