Good morning Lady Aurora - a photo on Flickriver

            Short days mean that you have a good chance of seeing the Northern Lights. Sometimes they show themselves as a veil of warm green tones, while at other times they flare across the sky as a colour inferno that goes from white to a reddish-purple. Suddenly they’re there, and just as suddenly they might disappear – a natural firework display.
On a very basic level the northern lights are quite simple to explain. The lights come at night when the sky is dark. It’s like a celestial ballet of light dancing across the night sky, with a colour palette (green, pink, violet) reminiscent of a really cool fashion show from the 1980s. To the locals in Northern Norway, the northern lights are a part of life. In this area the aurora borealis has been, and still is, a fertile source for art, mythology and legends.
In Lofoten we live beneath the Auroral Oval. This is a belt of light that encircles the geomagnetic poles, and here your have the best chance of seeing the Northern Lights.

The green colour, the most common in the northern lights, occurs when particles from the sun collide with a lot of oxygen.
The yellow/green light is formed between 120-180 km up in the atmosphere.

Control of the aurora particles from the Earth's magnetic field determines where on Earth we will get the aurora.
The Northern Lights oval runs mainly along the coast from Lofoten to the North Cape, over Vesterålen, Senja, Tromsø and Alta.
Here, there is actually the most northern lights activity in the world.

   

Taken on: October 8, 2015

Groups appears in: • Outdoor Photographer Magazine (Unofficial) • Flickr's Best Landscape Photographers (Post 1 Award 2) more » • **Special Landscapes** « less

Camera: Nikon D4, f/8.0, 20 sec, 16mm, ISO 640 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D4
Lens:	16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	20
Focal Length:	16mm
ISO:	640
Exposure Bias:	+5 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 26.0 (Windows)
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