Night Shots (7)

Greenwich Yacht Club at night, low tide on the Thames


NEX6 + Summaron 35/2.8

Overlooking the Thames at the O2 arena and the Isle of Dogs behind


NEX6 + Summaron 35/2.8

I didn't even try then, but just a while ago tonight...

Northern lights!

α7R IV + Sony FE 1.8/20 G @ 20 mm, f/1.8, 1.6 s, ISO 800

I still have other camera in interval shooting, so I may have more aurora pictures to post later.

Last night there was a mild geomagnetic storm and it is almost the peak of Perseids meteor shower, so obviously I had to set up a camera to try to capture these. Pity there was more clouds one could wish for, but you can't always get everything. Later in the night I did also see quite a few heat lightnings, but sadly couldn't make a proper capture of those and 14 mm wide angle was perhaps the wrong lens to capture those distant lightnings. Anyway, this was the best I was able to capture:

Shooting star, aurora and clouds

α7R V + Sony FE 1.8/14 GM @ 14 mm, f/1.8, 2.5 s, ISO 1600

Northern lights over Eastern Helsinki

α7R V + Sony FE 1.8/14 GM @ 14 mm, f/2.5, 1.3 s, ISO 1600

Yes, almost the same scenery as in the few photos above, albeit this time I tested if the scenery would be better from the top floor (8th) balcony.

angora wrote: weather phenomena must be the best night shot subjects ever? and the milky way! + star trails? how long did it take you to capture, complete the circles, Harm? how many minutes, hundreds?

I guess 500 x 30 sec , which is more than 4 hours

Harm vb wrote: I put on my camera from about midnight for 500 shots. Detected some meteors indeed (to follow later), but for now just some startrails.

They are barely visible. Won't put the effort in it. Sorry.