Northern Lights Over The Sea

in life •  7 years ago  (edited)

On late Saturday evening on 17th March it was possible to see the aurora in the sky. I'm never been able to photograph them yet so I decided to go and give it a try. I live in Estonia and spotting aurora here is not very rare but not that common as well. I have seen them many times but only 2 times I remember when they were really bright and moving all over the sky.

I am using 2 different apps to track Aurora. One is named Aurora and another one is Aurorasaurus. They are both almost the same and show real-time data. Whenever there is a possibility to see in my area, the apps will notify me. On this evening it was only 2% chance to see them in North Estonia over the head. In middle Finland and Sweden, the possibility was 70% and aurora over the sky there means I can still see them in the northern sky about 900 kilometers away. Also, I watch real-time cameras from Finland, Norway, and Sweden and I could clearly see strong aurora action there.

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ISO100, f3.5, 115sec.
I drove about 15 kilometers away from my home, to be more away from the light pollution the city nearby produces.
This little port is a pretty ideal place to capture northern lights, facing north, nice scenery and relatively dark.

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ISO 100, f4, 191sec.
By your eyes, you could hardly see them, but camera captured them nicely. One thing I failed to do was to use more ISO, for some reason I didn't do it and now my shutter times are ridiculous.

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ISO100, f3.6, 109sec.
Of course, I wasn't there alone, northern lights chance, location and probably addiction for photographing brings other photographers there as well. You can see these ghostly figures here. Personally, I love this pic, this makes strange feeling in me for some reason. I captured this just for the setting testing purposes actually.

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ISO100, f3.5, 10sec.
By 2019 we will reach solar minimum cycle and chances of seeing strong northern lights will decrease drastically here.
Hope to get a couple of more opportunities in this spring till the sky is still dark at nights.



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I have always wanted to see the Northern Lights. Great pictures!

Yes, this sight is amazing!

Oh my gosh!!!! They are so nice.. I wish i could see them in person too. :)

If you travel to Canada or Northern Europe then your chances of seeing them are high!

its like not from our world:)

But yet it is and its awesome!

Wow awesome pictures! Great landscape with the lights

I am glad you liked :)

you are welcome

Heh, if you say so :D

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heh cool !

nice work brother

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Daaamn, I live wayyyy up north from you and I’ve missed the northern light. I need to download those apps now...

Yea you should, you are lucky, in your location its not rare to see northern lights :D. When I watch live cameras located in mid finland, I see them lights pretty often.