On the evening of May 10th, 2024, a geomagnetic storm was well underway by the time dark fell on the western US. My daughter and I drove east, away from the smoke and clouds around Flagstaff, Arizona, and set up south of the town of Holbrook. Skies were clear there and light pollution would be negligible. As twilight deepened, the camera was already picking up a swath of red overhead, wrapping down to the darker eastern horizon. Faint pillars were rippling through it and we already had overhead aurora in Arizona at 35° latitude. As the sky got darker, the brighter patches of sky and morphing pillars became visible to the naked eye, eventually revealing their colors in deep reds and greens. From Arizona! It was and still is hard to believe we got to see that from here.
The camera captures the color more vividly, including blues and purples that our eyes didn't detect. This set of time lapses covers the event from twilight at 0313Z through early morning at 0813Z.
Canon R5 with Canon EF 16-35 f/2.8 III USM
Canon EOS 6D Mark II with Tokina AT-X 16-28 f/2.8 PRO FX
2-6 sec exposures at f/2.8, ISO 1600-6400
Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere Pro
LR Timelapse and NeatVideo
5 сен 2024
