Comment by ComputerGuru
21 days ago
Do you need long exposure to make it visible with a camera? How does that work in the presence of light pollution?
21 days ago
Do you need long exposure to make it visible with a camera? How does that work in the presence of light pollution?
Tonight I could see the colours without the camera but it definitely stands out more with the long exposure of the camera.
Even with lights in the direct line of the shot you you can get good results - presumably the phone is doing HDR to achieve this.
I tried it last night (generally cloudless sky). With the naked eye it just looked like light pollution. With long exposure it looked like a weirdly lit picture. In neither case did I see any hint of green or red.
I’m not in the city, but you’d have to actually be two states away to escape its light (literally not figuratively, according to dark sky maps).
:(
Local light pollution normally makes it hard to see with anything short of long exposure, but today it was naked eye visible and regular photos also captured it.