Aurora adventures
May. 10th, 2024 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday was quite warm - 87F? It's going to be warm tomorrow too, and then go back to normal. After this week's movie (a serious anime called The Shape of Voice or A Silent Voice), J and I went on a walk down to the park and back - or rather, I walked briskly and he rode his bike in loops and met up with me every so often. Then we went home and relaxed a while, although he had a plan to head out at midnight to look for the Aurora Borealis. I've always been told that if it's visible from our area at all, one has to go up to Junction City, which is north of Eugene and beyond our city lights. Our own neighborhood is on the southern end of the city, so the northward view is always lit.
Then, at 11 pm, an online friend posted, "Apparently, those of you who are in Portland should go outside right now," and although we're not in Portland, we did dash outside and briskly walked a half mile to the spot where we get our best northern view from here (we're in a bit of a dell, with hills and trees on all sides). J thought the sky looked vaguely different and took some photos using the "night sight" feature on his phone, but it was hard to tell if we were seeing anything we wouldn't normally see.
We went home again, and he got advice from one of our friends who had seen the aurora with her bare eyes, and when he asked where, she said they'd had to drive to Junction City, which did not surprise me at all. So he set forth, and meanwhile I discovered that I could actually find the aurora from his own driveway, using that phone feature, and facing east rather than north. I took a whole succession of photos with various stages of pinkness, from slightly pink to an intense pink, and this one was the most interesting because it had other features too. D was walking home from S's house and finding the same thing I was. Meanwhile, when J. got to Junction City, he could see the "donut" shape with his bare eyes, but not the colors, particularly.
AA went to Springfield with a friend and got very dramatic photos with her camera, although likewise the sky looked pretty ordinary directly.
Then, at 11 pm, an online friend posted, "Apparently, those of you who are in Portland should go outside right now," and although we're not in Portland, we did dash outside and briskly walked a half mile to the spot where we get our best northern view from here (we're in a bit of a dell, with hills and trees on all sides). J thought the sky looked vaguely different and took some photos using the "night sight" feature on his phone, but it was hard to tell if we were seeing anything we wouldn't normally see.
We went home again, and he got advice from one of our friends who had seen the aurora with her bare eyes, and when he asked where, she said they'd had to drive to Junction City, which did not surprise me at all. So he set forth, and meanwhile I discovered that I could actually find the aurora from his own driveway, using that phone feature, and facing east rather than north. I took a whole succession of photos with various stages of pinkness, from slightly pink to an intense pink, and this one was the most interesting because it had other features too. D was walking home from S's house and finding the same thing I was. Meanwhile, when J. got to Junction City, he could see the "donut" shape with his bare eyes, but not the colors, particularly.
AA went to Springfield with a friend and got very dramatic photos with her camera, although likewise the sky looked pretty ordinary directly.
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Date: 2024-05-14 07:28 pm (UTC)What an event, so happy for you. :)
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