{"id":1401,"date":"2015-11-29T13:51:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T22:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2015-11-29T13:51:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T22:51:26","slug":"fisheye-and-faint-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"Fisheye and faint aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the holiday weekend a friend of mine was house-sitting out by Moose Mountain, off Murphy Dome Road, and invited me to come out and enjoy the dark sky and a hot tub with her any night she was there. So on Friday night I headed over and after an very enjoyable evening of soaking under the skies with the first signs of stars that I had seen in over a week plus a few occasional shooting stars, even though the data was not incredibly favorable for the aurora I decided to finish the drive all the way out to Murphy Dome since I my new fisheye lens had arrived via UPS earlier that same day and I wanted to test it out.<\/p>\n

I only got a couple of shots with some very, very faint aurora in a band. I also need to learn what is the best way to angle it since I got way too much foreground (snowpack). But I do think I got the lens focused, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m excited to get out now that it has stopped snowing and we are back to seeing aurora at night!<\/p>\n

Sony a6000, Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens
\nAperture priority, various ISO (see images)<\/p>\n

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Focusing on the stars. Sony a6000, Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens Aperture priority, ISO 1250<\/p><\/div>\n

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Not sure why all these vehicles are parked and snow covered at midnight….. Sony a6000, Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens Aperture priority, ISO 400, adjusted for brightness and minor contrast<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nearly a full moon plus the snow reflection made this area very bright! Sony a6000, Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens Aperture priority, ISO 400, adjusted for brightness and minor contrast<\/p><\/div>\n

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Due to the empty dog transport, I imagine a dog team out racing under the moonlight. Sony a6000, Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens Aperture priority, ISO 400, adjusted for brightness and minor contrast<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the holiday weekend a friend of mine was house-sitting out by Moose Mountain, off Murphy Dome Road, and invited me to come out and enjoy the dark sky and a hot tub with her any night she was there. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,7,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}