Last night was a frigid, totally clear sky night and the northern lights forecast said low solar activity. So I pointed our IP camera north and bashed out a few scripts to record continuously and create a long-exposure star trail photo, hoping to have a really clean star trail. Yes, I have nothing better to do at night…
Turns out, we did get northern lights - and some light pillars too. So technically my clean star trail is ruined. But the image still looks cool.
At least that gave me an opportunity to make a timelapse video of the northern lights with the source images I used for the star trail, which you can see here.
Anyone know what those big flashes are? The “stars” in the picture without trails. I saw one of them in the video as a bright flash.
Aircraft probably. The airport is 20 mi south of here and quite a few airplane routes head due north.
Geosynchronous satellites
That’s really cool actually. How far north are you?
Roughly at the arctic circle.
