I would have rather loved to seeing the northern lights in Spain but we haven't been there since 2018! I probably have a huge hill of old mail and dust awaiting my return to my apartment!
I'm currently waiting for a 24-240mm Sony lens and it would have been very well-used last night. Instead I took my only wide full-frame 20-70 lens and that was luckily adequate for the whole show. I would have been happier with a lens just a hair wider, and thought of taking the very sharp and lightweight Sony fisheye adapter though that would not fit onto the lens I took!
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| Looking across Lake Ontario to Toronto at left |
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| All the people amazed with the celestial event! |
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| The structures of Old Fort Niagara under the aurora |
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| I even turned my camera to the south, snapping this image of the aurora over the bright Moon! |
On the way home, we stopped at the Youngstown NY yacht
club waterfront.
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| Below and above images created while at the Youngstown NY yacht club waterfront |
Again it was still easy to see the aurora, again with
streetlights glaring and eyes again totally unadjusted to the
darkness.... or rather, the brightness of the aurora!
After the fact and looking at the Space Weather webpage hours later, again, I think it was so awesome that unknowingly, we had arrived at our selected viewing area of Fort Niagara during its peak levels; it apparently was almost a KP9, which is the highest it can get!! When we arrived at the fort, even with UNadjusted eyes to the darkness, I could see the lights faintly, through my three times operated-on eyes!!
Over the years the wife and I have discussed going somewhere where we could be guaranteed easy viewing of the aurora borealis... Iceland which is fairly "close" to us, and northern Norway, where even my brother has been now to view the dazzling colorful displays!
Have you seen the northern lights yet?
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