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Just to make you mega jealous (or even green with envy - sorry!) - this is the view from the living room of my new house! We're doing a massive renovation so not had time to take or process many pics but here are a couple from August. Apparently, the next few nights around 2nd November are going to be good for a CME (coronal mass ejection) so keep your eyes peeled and camera ready. I´m pretty far north but quite often, down your way, if there is an alert on it's worth taking some photos anyway if the sky is clear as the camera can pick up the aurora when you can´t actually see it with your eyes.
I´ve found the best settings for me on the d810 have been iso1250, f8, 1/15 to 1/25s depending on the light. However, I´ve only shot looking out of the window so far and there is light pollution from the harbour to factor in. I´ll probably have to readjust everything when I finally get a chance to venture out somewhere darker.
There doesn´t seem to be a season as such. The sun spits out CMEs when it feels like it. I thought you could only really see aurora in the winter but when I moved to the new house, I was pleasantly surprised as it has been glowing throughout the summer as well. The advantage of aurora hunting in winter though is that it´s darker much earlier. The best pics I got in the summer were taken really late, some at 3am just before sunrise (I was keen and not knackered from renovating back then lol).
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