Tuesday this week had a reasonable Aurora Forecast, the weather forecast on the other hand was mixed.
I headed down to Bigton where the sky was reasonably free from cloud compared to the east side.
I was looking for a different angle so headed down to the beach. The Moon had just set so it was dark and the milky way showing well.
The Aurora was visible to the naked eye, a wide green band stretching across the sea from Ireland
The other good thing was that it was still which was a pleasant surprise after recent gales. The tide was well up and provided a nice foreground.
The Aurora was only visible for about 1/2 hour before the cloud rushed in from the South west and totally swallowed the green band
I was surprised to find that no one else was about, its usually a popular spot for Aurora's. I am still looking for other sites away from light pollution but looking north. It needs to be fairly close as sometime you get little notice that the Aurora is developing
As it was dark I was using ISO 6400 at F/2 around 6-8 seconds, its a great setting on the Sony A7s showing only a little noise. Even Nikon and Canon cameras would show a lot of noise at this ISO
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