The conditions are good! Clear skies and moderate particle stream from the sun, so my camera is set, my wool clothes are all ready. Tripod? Check! Extra battery? Check! Flash light? Check! All systems nominal. Go, no-go for northern lights! WE HAVE A GO FOR AURORA BOREALIS!
In the news today we saw that 45. million readers have seen the Facebook page for Visit Northern Norway – and yet again my friend Øystein Lunde Ingvaldsen lundeimages. com made the frontpage with one of his stunning photos, the very photo I got his permission to show here to the right! It is an absolute beauty of a northern lights shot! The photo is taken in Bø in Vesterålen (Boe in Vesteraalen) – the beautiful group of islands between Lofoten and the main land.
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45 million visits to Visit Northern Norway (Norwegian)

Northern lights? -straight up, please!
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12. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Facebook, Friend's Achievements, From the archives, Geophysics, In the News right now, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Other Bloggers, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Aurora statistics, Battery, battery check, Camera, Clear conditions, Clear weather, Extra battery, facebook, Flashlight, Go, nature, No-go, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern, Northern Lights, Northern Norway, Particle flux, Particle stream, science, sun, Systems nominal, Tripod, Wool, Wool clothes | Leave a comment
One of the great joys of photography, is to flip through old shots and rediscovering details you didn’t see the first time. This shot was taken on the January 23. 2012. Tonight there is a clear and rather crisp sky (although I had been hoping for a little less humidity in the atmosphere) – so – who knows – maybe it is going to be one of those spectacular nights again..?

Northern Lights above Ankenes January 23. 2012
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7. October 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, From the archives, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Seasons | Tags: Atmosphere, Aurora Borealis, Clear conditions, Humidity, January 2012, January 23. 2012, Joy, Joys of photography, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern Lights, photography, Spectacular night, Tonight | Leave a comment
…well it isn’t – Northern Lights Alert, that is.. But as you can see from this image shot and hour ago, the conditions are clear, and even though the statistics for aurora tonight (se graphic to the right) isn’t way up in the red end of the scale – I’m hoping to see and maybe shoot a photo of the first aurora this fall.

Clear skies tonight – hoping for aurora
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12. September 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Everyday Life, Long Exposure, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Seasons | Tags: Aurora Borealis, Aurora statistics, Calm, Calm Fjord, Clear conditions, fjord, Graphic, Hope, Hoping, Northern Lights | Leave a comment