For 16th of April 2025, Space Weather Prediction Center of National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted a geomagnetic storm,
IIRC, somewhere up to G3. The forecast looked promising, so I decided
to pack up and go to my usual spot outside of some village, relatively
close to the sea.
I used Canon EOS 2000D with a Sigma 20mm EX f/1.8 lens. Most photos
were exposed for 6 and 8 seconds, some were 13 seconds. All were f/1.8.
I took around 400 photos, trashed about a hundred, and then I noticed
I didn't move camera for over 200 of them, so I decided to make a video
out of them.
Unarmed eye saw this differently. It was slightly less visible,
let's say 15-30%, and way slower. Tint and saturation would vary; it
was visibly more red and green sections were bit more grey. I tried
adjusting it in Darktable but I failed.
Recently, I have been going to the same exact spot to take some sky
photos. I was made painfully aware that for whatever reason cars move
along the road all the time when they were blasting their light right into
my 900mm Mak. Where are they going? I don't know, that roads literally
ends up in the lake and there is like 10 households there. Fishing?
At 11 PM?
Yes, it took me over six months to go over the photos.