SUDBURY – A photography enthusiast in Northern Ontario captured two celestial events, Northern Lights and Comet NEOWISE, in stunning time-lapse video.
Christina Emond has been capturing nature and wildlife in Northeast Ontario for more than four years as a hobby.
This week, he installed his Canon Rebel T7 camera with an 18mm lens and tripod on Lake Murray in Hagar, a small rural community east of Sudbury, and took a video of the Northern Lights and Comet NEOWISE.
Using a slow shutter speed for two hours, he was able to capture the two heavenly events in a 24-second video.
Comet NEOWISE, C / 2020 F2, is named after the NASA mission that discovered it, Near-Earth Wide-Field Infrared Reconnaissance Explorer. It has caught the attention of stargazers around the world and is visible to the naked eye from dusk to dawn in the northern hemisphere. NASA says the comet will not be seen again for another 6,800 years.
Emond said the comet can be seen from 10:45 p.m. to 4 a.m. from the northwest sky as it heads east.
Its time span also captured the Northern Lights, known as the Northern Lights. In Northeast Ontario, the phenomenon is seen more as a movement in the sky without color, however the camera was able to capture the different colors.
Northern Lights Center describes the phenomenon as “the brilliant dancing lights of the aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun entering the Earth’s atmosphere.”
On his way to the lake on Monday night, Emond encountered a curious elk walking on the dark country road. She said she could hear the mother in the bush.
Watch the video of the adorable moose as he strolls down a dark northern country road. When Christina, a former hunter, makes a moose call, she catches the attention of young animals.
The amateur photographer said that she has truly connected with nature through her experiences and got rid of her hunting firearm. Some of her photographs are even presented at a furniture store in Markstay.
Her favorite encounter is with a wolf she encountered that caught her eye during one of her daily photo shoots. She said she saw the animal out of the corner of her eye as it was eating snow on a beautiful winter day. They watched quietly from a distance and she was able to capture several spontaneous images.
She said she is very careful with wildlife and that if she notices any signs of aggression, she leaves them alone and runs away quickly and calmly.
Another memorable experience he remembers is when he encountered a lynx on a local country road and was able to walk behind him for a short period of time. For wildlife and nature images, wear a 150mm Sigma lens and try to get out into the wild every day.
The self-taught photographer said she takes 200–800 photos in one shoot and has learned a lot from local photographers Allison Currie, Ray Thoms and Gerry Gooderham.
Emond said she brings her camera everywhere with her and is always ready to capture the moment in front of her.
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