This is a running-updates post chronicling events covered during the months of September and October of 2024.
As I've said before, routine northern lights are sort of a "been there, done that" thing for me these days. Seeing the best of any given aurora event requires staying out for hours, sometimes all night, to await the unpredictable (and many times brief) substorms. Not only that, but I really don't have any interesting low-light-pollution foregrounds near me, and my go-to rural railroad crossing spot has become a little played out in my opinion.
For those reasons, I'm not usually motivated to pay any attention to all but the most epic of events. This one wasn't close to meeting that criteria, but when I saw reports of a good substorm happening, I went out for about 20 minutes to take a couple of exposures. The substorm didn't last long enough for me to pick up even the green horizon arc. After only three test exposures, I went home.
