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Though he admits comparing reports from recent years has got easier due to mobile phone and digital cameras being more sensitive to capturing the aurora than the naked eye.

Later this year the largest digital camera ever built will begin working at the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, able to capture the night sky in incredible detail.

Le Saux embraced the low-light sensitivity of a digital camera and light sources to illuminate the looming intensity of the moment — one that sees George transform from a scared boy into a life-saving hero.

Around his neck he always wears his prized possession, bought with months of savings: a digital camera.

The suspect was equipped with two digital cameras, a black plastic bag of food, an SKS-style semi-automatic rifle - a weapon with a range of nearly 440 yards - and a scope to magnify its lens.