northern lights

Has anyone had success photographing the northern lights with a pinhole
camera?

There was the most incredible display of Northern Lights here last night.
The entire sky was a glowing shimmering green from the northern horizon to
about 80 degrees above the southern horizon. The display went on for
around an hour and a half.

Watching this I concieved of grand ideas of making a big camera with a
hemispheric back that would point skyward to record/make a small diorama
of the evening sky.

But I don't think a pinhole would work in such low light levels. Has
anyone done any night work with pinhole cameras?

Of course I want to use big sheets of film... slow asa... Maybe I could
try arial chrome film- it comes in 10" rolls hmmm

Gord - still awestruck

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Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology
holtsg@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place
http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan
Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2
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Received on Tue Oct 8 16:47:15 2002