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toastibot t1_jaumnoz wrote

Reply to Aurora over Alaska 2/27/2023 [2807x3656] [OC] by MoBambaNYC

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MoBambaNYC OP t1_jault6t wrote

Reply to comment by flingelsewhere in Aurora over Alaska 2/27/2023 [2807x3656] [OC] by MoBambaNYC

On the average night your camera is gonna see it better, on a really strong night your eyes see it better. It has to do with the rods in our eyes at night we don’t see color really well unless it is bright. Think of driving down a dark road all the cars looks dark until your headlight hits it, then you can see the color. But you not seeing the colors well is an optical illusion of sorts because the camera is capturing what’s actually there. The flip side is on a bright night like this one, your eyes see it better because the camera can only absorb so much info to its sensor before it turns everything white, what we call blowing out. This particular night the reds were so vibrant from the super dense solar winds that Ray Charles could have seen them.

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