11/15/25

 So this past week there was Aurora events or "Northern Lights".  On the 11th I did not go out to look and am still disappointed in myself as that night was much better from the photos I have seen by others.  From what I was reading it was not supposed to be visible in my area.  I went out on the 12th and I did get lucky that they were still visible here.  I took this with my phone on its astro setting and it caught it really well as it was not visible to the eye.  So this is my take on it, though not as spectacular as it could have been the night before.  

9/28/15

I stayed up last night and watched and photographed the eclipse.  I hope I was able to get good shots because I am tired today.  :-)  It was quite cool looking anyway.  A while back, on the last night we were in Minnesota, I was able to witness another cool night time event.  We were driving back from dinner with relatives and we saw the Northern Lights glowing in the sky.  I did not have a tripod so I used the car as a support.  I got a fairly good shot out of that.  When we got back to where we camp, I headed out with a Tripod and went in a field and got this image.  It is a long exposure image and as it was photographing, the bright part that is in the lower middle was moving across and I thought it was cool how the camera caught it.  The lights were so beautiful to watch and were that lovely green color.  It's enhanced just a bit in the photo.