However, as I was walking to the bathroom just before going to sleep, I looked out one of the north-facing windows in the hall, and was treated to this:
It's not the Aurora, even though it looks pretty much exactly like it. The forecast tells me that the auroral activity tonight is far too low to be seen, especially since it's not at all dark out, which leads me to conclude that it's simply an absolutely insane sunset. (The other weird thing is that the sunsets here are more or less diagonal, and are almost immediately followed by a sunrise off a bit to the right of where the sun set)
I underexposed the above picture to prevent the clouds from blowing out the actual sunset. However, the sky looks more or less exactly how it looked to the eye. No photoshop! (For a technical explanation of why the woods look darker in the picture than to the naked eye, read this)
Because there was a little glare on the picture above, I ran outside to get a shot before realizing that there were trees in the way.
Sorry if the pictures aren't absolutely fantastic. I considered hopping on my bike to find a better place to photograph it, but it's 1am, I'm wearing pajamas, and I have work in a few hours.
1 comment:
I remember the skies being magnificent and hard to capture on camera. Great shots!
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