The sun goes burp and the atmosphere turns red. Spectacular not only from Earth but from orbit as well. This event caught both
@dominickmatthew and I off guard. Aurora had been just so-so; we were out of energy at the end of a long day and reluctant to once again set up our cameras up for yet another “No Show”. We were just heading to some much needed sleep when we made the mistake of peeking out the Cupola windows.
Stunning was the word.
It looked like
@Space_Station had been shrunk to some miniature dimension and inserted into a neon sign. We were not flying 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦 the aurora; we were flying 𝘪𝘯 the aurora. And it was blood red. Caught off guard, we hastily set up our cameras, four of them, all snapping shutters as fast as they could, creating a syncopated rhythm that accented Nature’s artistic display presented before us.
Here is one of the shots.
Nikon Z9, Nikon 24mm f1.4 lens, 1/5 second, f1.4, ISO 3200, adjusted in Photoshop (noise reduction, color, contrast).
ALT Two shadowy space capsules, complete with all sorts of equipment attached to them, dominate the foreground. The background is a colorful spacescape, Earth curving across the bottom with green hues of the aurora dancing across the planet’s surface. Further up, deep red hues shoot out into space before fading to black.