Comment by thebruce87m
20 days ago
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).
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