New unreeleased track with an auroral timelapse

[asb]

So the other night we got wind that there was going to be another auroral storm so we got the cameras, the bug spray and headed north.

We get to the outskirts of a wildlife preserve and the darned thing is filling up the whole sky and so bright birds were starting to wake up as if it was morning.

So several hours later I had almost 1200 photos and some time to put a time lapse together and tossed an unreleased asb instrumental in there too.

It's too bad that youtube tends to mangle the video quality as the clarity is lessened - it's a 4k video but youtube seems to only render it as high as 1440p (shrug):

While we were out there, you could hear frogs and crickets and all kinds of wildlife - possibly coyotes in the distance and at one point maybe a bear (or an angry bull).

Nature is awesome.

[Infinite Ego]

very cool, thanks for sharing.

[sonicdeviant]

Gorgeous, ASB. Well done on all aspects--audio and visuals. The music fits the visual very well. This is something, in my travels, that I haven't witnessed; it's on my bucket list.

[asb]

That's the other thing that was amazing - sometimes the aurora lights up the sky but it was so bright the birds in the nature preserve started singing at 1:30 in the morning because they thought it was dawn.

I found out some of the weird gulping noises I heard were some large frogs doing whatever it is frogs do to attract a mate or stave off others in their territory.

For the assembly I took all the pics and dumped them into lightroom then used an app called lrtimelapse4 by an amazing german guy that equalizes all the exposure times and brightnesses of every photo and averages them out so there's no flicker from frame to frame and it really works.

I found out later that if we'd been 100 miles north of this spot there would have been more color but the human eyes rods and cones system largely sees these things are a strange white haze with moving structures in them. It generally only produces bright color when you are closer and if it's a really strong show. This was a semi-strong show but the solar wind was kind of weak but all the other numbers looked great.

Shane - yeah, you definitely need to see it. I'd recommend iceland for that kind of thing for the best change of seeing a strong show. Problem is we're heading towards solar mininum here (that part of the suns' 11 year cycle where not much of this happens - so in order to see them you have to get the numbers delivered to your phone and be prepared to drive hundreds of miles at a moments notice).

[Infinite Ego]

solar wind..... so weak

[sonicdeviant]

I'm familiar with the sunspot cycle; that's something amateur radio operators track because it affects wave propagation. (I haven't touched my radios in years.) We'll see it someday; certainly looks awesome. Anyway, great work once again, Todd. I bet you'll get a lot of views with that one.

[asb]

Oh geez, radios. I was kicking myself because I have a number of handhelds that transmit and I suspect that night I would have gotten a fair bit of distance away due to the ionosphere being on fire.

[sonicdeviant]

When the sunspot cycle is at its peak, the 10 meter band on HF comes alive!

[mirth]

Thanks for sharing. Cool stuff