Every once in a great while aurora borealis is visible in my neck of the woods. Now, I’ve never seen it happen. I miss it every time. This past week, although I missed the first night, I went traipsing around in the dark after midnight looking for them on November 12/13. While on pain pills. Not my smartest move. But, nonetheless, if there were Northern Lights to be seen, I was determined to find them!
I got outside in the cold nighttime air (not great for the toothache, let me add), and saw absolutely nothing. I started to go back inside. Then I remembered hearing lots of people talking about how you had to have your camera set on night mode and time lapse to get good shots of them. So I put my phone’s camera on night mode and hit what I thought was a time lapse button and started snapping away. I checked some of the pictures and really could see some of the purplish-red and green-blue affiliated with the Northern Lights. So I kept snapping. They were all fuzzy, though. Nothing was very clear. (It turned out the “time lapse” I had configured was actually the distance of the photos – I had everything set to 10X, so of course everything was fuzzy, I discovered after I got back inside.)
When I sent the pics to Russ, he said, “Great, we never have to go to Iceland.” I told him it didn’t count because I didn’t see the colors in the sky. But it sure was fun to look at those pictures and see evidence of it there. Although then it made me wonder, in my drug-induced state – what else is out there that I can’t see???
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