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The Flash Bang!

One of the two biggest flashes last night.

To round of a quiet night with practically no northern lights and some editing work on the aging computer – here is one of the big flashes from last night! Glad Wenche came out in time to see this! Better than fireworks – isn’t it!

One of the two biggest flashes last night.

16. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Améthyste, Angelical, Angelical voice, Art, arts, Associations, Ayan, beautiful, Beauty, Better, Better than Fireworks, Camera, Cathrine, Chatting, Danielle, Fireworks, Fotoklubb, Good northern lights photographs, Kent Robin, Life, Liv-Bente, music, My life, Narvik, Narvik Fotoforening, nature, Nordland, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Northern Light Pictures, Northern Lights, Northern Lights photographs, outdoors, Photo Club, photography, Rune, Scout, Scouting, Scouting the skies, Shots, Skilled, Thailand, Trade, Trade Tips, Trade tips and tricks, Tricks, Tripod, Wenche | Leave a comment

Lighthouse – Light from the North and Friends

In relation to the previous two posts…

Lighthouse and friends

16. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Nature, Nature's Delight, Panorama, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Améthyste, Angelical, Angelical voice, Art, arts, Associations, Ayan, beautiful, Beauty, Camera, Cathrine, Chatting, Danielle, Fotoklubb, Good northern lights photographs, Kent Robin, Life, Lighthouse, Liv-Bente, music, My life, Narvik, Narvik Fotoforening, nature, Nordland, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Northern Light Pictures, Northern Lights, Northern Lights photographs, outdoors, people, Photo Club, photography, Rune, Scout, Scouting, Scouting the skies, Shots, Skilled, technology, Thailand, Trade, Trade Tips, Trade tips and tricks, Tricks, Tripod, Wenche | Leave a comment

The Quick and The Slow – cranking out Northern Lights

I have a sensational old and slow computer. So cranking out Northern Lights photos is a slow and tedious process in sharp contrast to my camera, which is fast as lightning in comparison when it comes to process photos…

This is one more from yesterday in relation to my last post – see the Home-page.

Another one from the Ofoten Fjord last night.

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The Thereminist and The Northern Light

On the third night in a row I went out scouting for the Northern Lights yesterday. I had good company in Danielle and Kent Robin. Liv-Bente had prepared the grounds (if you’d like me to, I’ll explain this in a later post). Just in time for the show, Wenche came along with an exchange student, Ayan from Thailand and an old friend – Rune – and a friend of his – Cathrine – from Narvik Fotoklubb – The local photo club came to scout the skies as well. There were quite a few tripods and camera at one point, but it is always nice to trade tips and tricks in the very skilled and difficult art of taking good northern lights shots.

So what about the title on this post? – you might ask… Well, when there is nobody else out there chatting along, I can actually hear music when I see the northern lights flickering and meandering across the night sky. My good friend – the brilliant singer and thereminist – Amethyste plays along with the light in my mind. She has an angelical voice. I suppose it is simply and purely a question of associations between beautiful things in my life.

Northern Lights flickering above Narvik and Ankenes last night while Améthyste held a concert for my inner ear.

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Report from last night – Tonight G1..!

I am crazy busy today – but I just popped by my blog to show my readers an example of last night activity. The Kp-index was steadily around five, which at these latitudes is high (northern lights activity normally starts at Kp 2/3. Tonight there is a geomagnetic storm coming with an estimated strength of G1 (the scale goes from G0 – no activity to G5 where all hell breaks loose and satellites gets their curcuitboards fried and powergrids here on Earth fails).

Unfortunately there were strong winds and quite a bit of rain and partly cloudy yesterday. But still the build up to the storm was quite obvious in between the clouds!

Strong Auroral Activity is seen in between the Clouds last night.

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And another one from yesterday!

Aurora borealis above the Ofoten Fjord with the mountain Veggen in the background as seen from Ankenes yesterday.

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Fantastic aurora!

Standing there in the darkness – jumping up and down like a little kid at Christmas – and shouting -Yes! and Aaaah!, I probably look quite silly for a grown man, but every occasion like yesterday is exactly like Christmas to me! The Aurora borealis – Northern Light is so awe-inspiring that I wish all the japanese, Korean and Chinese tourist here in Norway could see it! They really are memories for a lifetime. Last night Kp-index was 3 (2 and above means chances to see northern lights at these latitudes). Today the Kp is even higher, at 5 – so I am soooo hoping for equally crisp, clear skies and even bigger lights!

I managed to get great many shots yesterday. And I had company. Danielle came down to the water with her boyfriend and I helped her getting into the fine techniques of shooting Northern Lights photographs.

And another bonus last night was the swarms of beautiful meteorites. I belive it must have been the orionides that should be passing just these days. Although my camera was pointed in the wrong directions, when I got home, I found that actually three of my photos had captured these beautiful sights. My head was obviously pointing in the wrong direction at these points, as I didn’t see them until I started flipping through the shots.

Well, here is a tiny fraction of last night’s phenomenal photo shoot. Enjoy!

Northern Lights stretching all the way form to the North of Narvik and all the way to the South-West above Vestfjorden. To the left Ankenes, and to the right Veggen and Forratangen. In the center Kjeldebotn.