Northern Lights

The Northern Lights were visible as far down as Newcastle over the last day or two, or at least so I'd heard thanks to https://twitter.com/#!/VirtualAstro.  However I'd not managed to see anything so I took a chance and headed down to South Shields with my camera, if I could see something I'd take a few photos and if not well its not that far to go so nothing really wasted.

Rather glad I took the chance though as it turned out you could see it, but only just, but that was enough.  After a couple of test shots I ended up on 25 seconds at f5.6 and iso 400, I'd have preferred to up the aperture a bit but that would have meant I'd either have to increase the exposure and risk star trails or up the iso and bring some more noise into the picture.






After uploading them to flickr and then tweeting them to VirtualAstro my flickr views went from about 10 for the day to over 1600!