Aurora Timelapse from Michigan 10-24-11

Northern Lights as seen east of Martin, Michigan on October 24 2011. As seen on numerous local broadcasts and local news outlets around the midwest. major network news NBC, ABC, Today show. Mlive. Accuweather. Woodtv8’s Bill’s Blog. Mentioned on the Detroit news, Chicago Tribune. NPR and many others. The timelapse spans 2h 20m from just after dusk to around 10:30 pm EDT. Tech details: ~280 15MP images taken with a Canon T1i. Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 set @11mm f4.0 ISO 400. 25 second exposures every 30 seconds. Video was created with Virtualdub’s jpeg sequencer to a 30fps AVI. Then compressed and slowed down to 10 fps.