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This was Very bright aurora (notice shutter speed).

Exposure time: 1s
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 2000

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Here the aurora started to get very bright. The brightness is saturating this 4 second exposure!

Exposure time: 4s
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 2000

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I got teased a bit for thinking my camera was the Hubble Space Telescope. This happened whenever I took a photo that ended up showing way more stars than we could see with our eyes.

Exposure time: 8s
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1000

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The brightness of the stars and the sky that should be black are indicators of how bright or faint the aurora was at any given time. All of the photos I am posting were taking in less than three hours, and in that time the dynamics of the aurora changes quite a bit. I think with the brightest aurora I was able to get down to a one second exposure, in which the sky is very black. Most of the photos had exposures between 3 and 8 seconds.

Exposure time: 4s
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1000

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I love how this photo looks like a black and white shot, but it is really taken in full color!

Exposure time: 4s
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1000

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Another overhead view. This is one of my more favorite aurora photos that I took... not entirely sure why.

Exposure time: 4s
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1000

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This is a view looking nearly straight overhead. The dark stripe between the two bright arcs is often called black aurora.

Exposure time: 4s
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1000