The Fall Foliage Hasn’t Peaked Yet But the Sky is Full of Color
We first saw the northern lights from our yard Friday night.
We went up to the Parkway overlook to take some pictures. By then we could barely see the lights with our naked eyes but they showed up on our cameras.
A photographer at the Saddle said that the lights were briefly visible to the naked eye just before we got up there, which is what we saw in the yard.
Later, when I got home, I looked up why a camera can capture the image better than our eyes and learned that: “A camera can often capture the Northern Lights better than the human eye because cameras can collect light over a longer period of time using long exposure settings, allowing them to pick up fainter colors and details that our eyes, which adapt poorly to low light conditions, might miss in the moment; essentially, the camera can “see” more light than our eyes can in a single glance, especially when it comes to the subtle variations of color in the aurora.”
We took these pictures with Joe’s phone camera because it works better in low light than my RX 200 Sony camera.
According to news reports, a strong geomagnetic storm caused the lights to be visible as far south as Florida.
October 13th, 2024 10:59 pm
These are amazing pics! I didn’t get to see them & I am kind of bummed – although lots of family & friends in MA got to see them as well. Thanks for all this information as well! Absolutely gorgeous!