The 1st night was better than the 2nd. A former neighbor (I'm the one who moved) sent me pics from a friend in a Denver suburb sent him of the lights, so I headed to my favorite local place for shooting the aurora (the few times it's been visible in CO). The next night, I had enough notice to drive to the Snowy Range in WY in hopes of clear skies & strong lights. The most dramatic thing there was an altercation between someone who, without his lights on, hit another parked car & blamed it on her. Major yelling, ending with her taking off in her car & being chased in a 3/4-1 ton truck by the guy who hit her car. Anyway, lights weren't nearly as good as the previous night, and they were to the east of the Snowy Range, so I ended up doing vertical panos in order to include the mountains as well as northern lights. And Milky Way, as it turned out.
Thanks! Had I not been rattled by the altercation, I may have thought to get the whole arc of the Milky Way, but I was just focused on getting the mountains & aurora and the MW was just a nice bookend.
The 2nd is a stitched vertical pano from 5 frames then cropped.
I had met a guy last time I was in the Winds who had an ultrawide rectilinear lens and was able to capture both MW & aurora in a single shot. He was somewhere a little roth of Cheyenne in mid-Sept.
I haven't seen anything on the Laramie or Albany Couty police blotters that mention the incident, so hopefully, the guy gave up chasing her.
