K20D Northern Lights

Some useful information here regarding photography of aurora.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/how-to...

Thank you for providing the aurora link Pete! I find the article very interesting and helpful!


Regards
Bjørn

Just topping this for Bjørn - NASA say November and December will see the best Northern Lights displays for 50 years. So keep a watch on the forecasts and head out into the dark if you get the chance! All you Scots and Northern English too!

I knew we should have booked the Hurtigruten for November instead of next March. It was the first idea but I though his nibs wouldn't appreciate the Arctic night.

Thank you so much Gwyn! In fact there was a very strong occurrence of Northern Lights between Monday 24 and Tuesday 25. October, and 100% perfect conditions here in Trondheim. I had not checked the Aurora forecast and was heavily asleep Well - I will have to check the Aurora forecasts regularly in the future!

Bjørn

I'm still subscribed to the aurorawatch from Lancaster University, though it's not much use in the East of England. When we lived in northern Scotland I found it very accurate and didn't miss much.

It's free and certainly worth subscribing to the alert service.

http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/alerts

A useful piece of free software is FSviewer I recommend you choose the portable version as it can be run from any location even a memory stick. It's great for fast viewing raw files rather than clogging up your memory cards with additional jpegs. It enables you to view them very quickly to delete the rubbish, oh, and you can do a small amount of editing. Very handy for those netbook moments.

Please only post something once in the forum.

Thank you for your good suggestion milamber! I have just now subscribed to the University of Alaska Fairbanks aurora alerts, since they have an international aurorawatch. Gwyn was kind enough to provide a link near the start of this thread: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/3

Bjørn

Those Lights on Monday were seen as far south as Arkansas in the US - that's as far south as Morocco . There were some great photos of them on some of the US newspaper sites, and I believe the guardian carried some too. I'll see if I can find a link later.

Links to US lights photos:

The Guardian
and a video from the LA Times.