Thanks for your kind comments. I like that picture too, because the green on the left is from the aurora! https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ye1_32yvNbx0XXi4FgfI06pq_I8Re_5B2UBq5i... I left the camera running during the Montana trip and compiled the photos into a video where you can see the northern lights dance.  http://youtu.be/V1aW0KaiGdA?t=54s The link is to a video of our entire trip, but it should start at 54s when the lights appear. Dion ________________________________ From: M Wilson <astro_outwest@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2013 6:26 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Report from Five Mile Pass: no frustration + aurora I really liked some of the Montana photos that you posted.  That green Montana aurora was spectacular but by far the best one was wider angle view of the  moon, Venus, Jupiter AND the Pleiades.  The sky had such a great blue color.

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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 20:23:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Dion Davidson <diondavidson@yahoo.com> To: "Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com"          <Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Report from Five Mile Pass: no frustration +          aurora Message-ID:          <1370143406.92840.YahooMailNeo@web160504.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

I wanted to report to this group about the outing I had near Five Mile Pass with Jay Eads and Mat Hutchings last night. I took Nancy's advice and spent time with Jay and Mat to learn about my telescope and how to find stuff in the sky. They showed me how to collimate my SCT, which I was afraid to do before. Then they showed me how to star hop. After seeing the images on the star map (S&T Pocket Sky Atlas), in Jay's viewfinder, and then in Jay's eyepiece, I could then go back to my own scope and find the same objects! Jay worked with me on four or five Messier objects and then set me loose to find others. Of course I got to stop and see some amazing sights along the way through both of their scopes.

After reading the various reports online about aurora in Utah last night I went and looked at the images I took and I see the aurora as well! Not just to the north, but all over the sky. I saw the aurora borealis last summer from Montana, and what I saw last night reminded me of that a little, though I didn't think it possible, so I didn't spend much time on it. I posted my images on my blog - let me know what you think. http://sandydavidsons.blogspot.com/2013/06/astronomy-at-file-mile-pass.html

Thanks again for the help I get from this group, and particularly from Mat and Jay.

Dion

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