Aurora (Conon) 20/11/03 - Eric Walker

I came home from work on 20 November 2003 and it was dark at 18:00h UT but there was a hint of a glow from the north west. Yes - it was a display of the Aurora Borealis - The Northern Lights. I got my clunky old manual Zenit E and just started snapping using exposures in the region of 15-20 seconds. The lens was a 58mm Helios and the aperture setting was f/2 and an ISO 400 film was used. This is one of the dramatic pictures I got from my back garden - it was scanned from the resultant prints. The view is almost directly overhead, right into the corona of the Northern Lights. www.astrophotos.plus.com