My best Northern Lights observation
Hi dear Steemians! Today I prepared a batch of Northern Lights photos that I took on 18.03.2015. For a long time I kept them for myself because of the high noise on the pictures, but I find a way to remove it to pretty good level so I decided to share them:)
I know that there are tons of amazing Northern Lights pictures of better quality, but taking into consideration that I took them with Canon 60D with a lot of mentioned noise and sometimes on too long exposure times (the idea was to limit the noise, but then the Aurora starts looking to blurry) after all, I'm happy from that look.
It was my second Northern Lights observation (after a trip to Tromso especially for that purpose) and this time it was more then 1300km to the south from that city and the Aurora intensity was soo much higher that I experienced before in Tromso. I remember that the KP level (in simple words it is an index of how far to the south Aurora can be visible, but it is just a colloquial meaning and in terms of physics it has to be something more sophisticated :D and it's related directly to geomagnetic storms ) was very high, probably around 8 and the Aurora was visible even from the central part of Poland, Germany and similar latitudes which is quite unique.
Ok, enough of this boring introduction - now lets jump to the photos!
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| Category | Landscape/Nightscape/Astrophotography |
| Gear | Canon 60D+Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 |
| Location | Jorpeland, Norway |
Wow,.. this is amazing!
I wish I could one day go to see the Northern Lights.
Great Photographs martingo!
Thank you @avant! You can do this from the UK if you will track the Aurora activity and will be patient enough!
I like your post and I think it is valuable for the photo community on Steemit!
@photofriend upvoted you! (Upvotes this week: 2 / What is the hash-tag race?
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I like your post, is amazing...
Wow.
How It possible, I don't know.
But It's really awesome.
Happy Steeming.
Sometimes the effect is all we need, in case of Aurora it's a good example! :)
Wow! I love these. What a fun experience to share. Life is beautiful.
I'm inviting you to participate in the #sevendaybnwchallenge. I hope you will accept the invitation.
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Thank you @everlove for nice comment! Of course I'm accepting the invitation and the challenge, I can already assure you that it will be not easy one for me!:)
Glad you're stepping up to the challenge @martingo. Come back and drop me a link when you make your posts. Would love to see what you have to offer!
Absolutely stunning!
One day for us!
We tried the Southern Light in Tasmania but that was a fail for us. As we were telling another steemian we did not really know what we were looking for lol
Haha, I can imagine that... until there is no strong activity and a clear sky to see it, it may be challenging especially for the first time :) But if you are 'in the zone' on the other hand it's hard to not notice it I believe! ;)
These are amazing photos. I am glad you decided to release them. I have heard that Norway is one of the best places in the world to view the Northern lights. It looks like that may be true.
Hi @veckinon, it is true becaouse of it's latitude, especially the northern parts of Norway, but it can be visible from many other places, probably in yours as well :) You can check this article: http://visitbigskymt.com/northern-lights-big-sky-montana/
I submitted your post for an @curie upvote. I am glad to see it was accepted and upvoted. Keep up the good work. Your photos are unreal!
Thank you @veckinon for submitting it <3 I just read your story about the Tooth Fairy that I had no idea about! Great article and amazing initiative of the @curie project.
I have seen them a few times here in Montana. I have a friend who is a photographer from my home town who has a few photos of them. They are definitely not as prominent here as they are there, but still amazing to see. Here is a link to one of my friends photos...
https://www.facebook.com/ridlephoto/photos/a.139351816115775.36740.134221206628836/1598199786897630/?type=3&theater
Great, I think that most important is to know that it's possible to observe it not only from countires closest to the north pole, but with some effort and will to do it it's possible from distant locations as well! Photo taken by your friend reminds me pictures taken in Poland on the very same night that mine above, but because of the KP range it was visible in a form of glow on a horrizon (link here)
Great photos! I bet it was a blast taking them!
@justinmullet it was... and a time when you would like to know your camera even better! ;)
Extremely beautiful! Seeing this is high on my list!
Thanks @madeforseaside! I think it is a good idea to have it on the list, good luck! :)
Extraordinary. . I saw the southern lights once, but it's way less common to see them down here in australia...
Thanks @riverflows, I'm not sure how it works in case of frequency of appearance on northern and southern hemisphere, but it's true that Aurora in general is more associated with the northern one... Btw, how was your observation?
It was in the early 90s.. maybe 1993!!! Big green red and orange sheets of colour over the sea where we used to surf. Have not seen it here since!
Outstanding shots! I guess you were out standing too, huh? Lol. That third one gives me a feeling of vertigo.
@camuel I definitely was , I let know about this activity to 4 of my friends and we all were standing out looking and capturing it on our cameras! :)
Wow KP 8 that is really rocking. This past year has been quite low solar activity as the sun approaches its minimum.
Yes, it was great deal to see it in such form at the south of Norway. As I mentioned in the article it was also visible in many countries that day. >>Here<< you can find examples from Poland (Aurora was seen even at the very south of country).
Sin duda una maravilla poder tener la oportunidad de disfrutar de las auroras boreales... ojalá algún día tenga el privilegio de contemplarlas. Excelentes imágenes!
Thanks @dacastellano for nice comment! I'm happy that you like my photos and I hope you will spot it one day as well! :)
Excellent work. Thank you for sharing
Thanks @ericjohn, I'm glad that you enjoyed it :)
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This article is amazing. I wish i could be there someday.
I hope you will @raffyjohn02!