In the foothills of North Carolina, our dark skies began to brighten a little after 9pm. It was a night with little to no moon. I was also beginning to image galaxy NGC 4725 with my RC8. I noticed that my third image had a weird gradient. The next image had a red hue.
I went outside and realized what was happening. I grabbed my DSLR and a tripod. I took a few photos over the course of the next 45 minutes.
They had forecast a slight possibility that we could see this around midnight if we had a view to our north. No one forecast what we saw. It was awesome – at 35 degrees latitude!
These images were taken with my canon 1Ds Mark III and a 28mm lens on a tripod. 3″ timer delay, 4″ exposures.
It’s funny because my astro imaging continued – guiding wasn’t the best but it did continue. The red gradient looked a lot like the sky glow during a full moon
