Aurora!

I follow someone on Mastodon who alerted me to the Aurora being active.  Last time it was amazing and we were at a quiz night and basically missed it all, so, this time I decided to head out to birdlings flat to get some pictures.

To the naked eye it looked like … weird gray clouds which were going vertically?… but.. to the camera with a longer exposure it all just pops out.

The funniest thing though:  I got there, setup my tripod and excitedly took a picture.  Nothing, just black.  Tried again, nothing.  Figured out it was probably because I hardly ever use M (Manual) mode, tried again, nothing.  Looked around, saw people were getting amazing photos and got really sad that I wasn’t seeing anything.

Then I realised I still had the lens cap on…. :D