Actually, there are two types of Aurora lights – The Aurora Borealis (AKA The Northern Lights), and Aurora Australis (AKA Southern Lights). Both occur at The Northern And Southern Poles, respectively. If you want to take a stab at shooting the Aurora Borealis, there is a Northern Lights shooting guide here. But even if you just want to prepare, here are the 25 winners of The most outstanding Aurora imaging of 2022 awards.
Last May 16, during a total lunar eclipse, the moon slid through Earth’s shadow and was completely immersed in the planets’ dark umbra for about 1 hour and 25 minutes. In this composited timelapse view, the partial and total phases of the eclipse were captured as the Moon tracked above the horizon from Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. There it shared a cold and starry south polar night with a surging display of the Aurora Australis and central Milky Way. In the foreground are the BICEP (right) and South Pole telescopes at the southernmost station’s Dark Sector Laboratory. But while polar skies can be spectacular, you won’t want to go to the South Pole to view the total lunar eclipse coming up on November 8. Instead, that eclipse can be seen from locations in Asia, Australia, the Americas, and the Pacific. It will be your last chance to watch a total lunar eclipse until 2025.
The background image is a single 20 seconds exposure with a sigma 24-70mm lens, at f/2.8, iso 3200 on a Sony A7RVI, captured at the peak of the eclipse. The array of moon images was captured with an old sigma 400mm film lens, on a Sony A7S, on a Sky Watcher Australia star adventurer tracker. We had a sustained wind of 15-20 knots, which brought the ambient temperature of -60C to -80C with windchill. Both cameras had to be housed in special heated foam boxes which I made, to prevent them from freezing.
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These are the Arctic nights that leave you breathless! That night, I decided to spend it up there, with one of the most beautiful views of the Lofoten islands and with the desire to photograph the “double arc”, to add it to my “double arc” collection.
I have been planning this pano for a couple of years now, and finally, all the elements have aligned. It was not yet completely dark when I began to see a faint Milky Way in front of me, and I hoped that in the next hour, a faint Aurora would appear on the opposite side, creating an arc that would fit perfectly into the composition and that would not illuminate the sky too much by removing detail from our galaxy. And so it was! What a night!
Under the Milky Way, you can see the Andromeda galaxy. In the middle of the “two arches, ” a shooting star acts as a cherry on the cake, and above a colorful Aurora, there is one of the most beautiful constellations, the Big Dipper! Towards the west, you can still see the light of the sun which has recently gone below the horizon.
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Rain and cold were dominant on my October photo tour of Iceland, but I persisted in chasing the chance to see the Aurora. One can only imagine my excitement when not only was the Aurora dancing, but the clouds also cleared up to the East so I could capture Orion, and I was able to “walk on water” to point it out in the frame!
It was the third day of my photo tour of Iceland, and, as usual, we were exploring the Snæfellsnes peninsula in western Iceland. The plan was to visit the region’s main attractions during the day and try to photograph the Northern Lights during the night in the Kirkjufell mountain area, one of the most photographed mountains in Iceland.
The weather didn’t seem to help, as it was quite cloudy throughout the day. Analyzing the Windy application during the afternoon, I could see that there was a perspective of an opening in the clouds from 8 pm onwards. A little more excited about the likely good conditions during the night, I did a quick analysis on vedur.is about the conditions for viewing the aurora borealis that night.
Aurora Forecast Extended
The predicted KP index from 20:00 was 5, which already indicates a possibility of the occurrence of moderate to strong auroras. To conclude the analysis, I checked the information in the “NorthernLights” and “Aurora Forecast” applications to check the Speed, Bz, Density, and Bt indices, which are parameters that show information about the solar winds, determinants for the occurrence of the aurora borealis. These indices also indicated the occurrence of moderate to strong aurora borealis during the night. Now it was time to get ready×¥
One epic night spent at such a beautiful & iconic place of Iceland, Vestrahorn/Stokksnes we were blessed by the Aurora Gods and Lady Aurora herself with this beautiful arc that reflected so perfectly and made a great composition for @wanderingpat to photo bomb! For those of you wondering, it’s a single-row panorama!
In Iceland. I was here with my photography workshop group in just complete amazement as we watched the aurora dance above us. Weather wasn’t so kind to us during the day and clouds were expected most the night, but we kept an eye on it and found an opening and took full advantage of it! As we walked around looking for compositions we stumbled upon this ice chunk that had been washed up on the beach. This is a very common thing as ice chunks wash up on the beach from the distant glacier as they melt. This was my last photo of the night as the aurora was becoming faint but we all walked home with an unforgettable memory.
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This is a remastered image from one of my favorite places. One of the things that bothered me about the original was how warped the lighthouse was due to the wide-angle distortion. I went into Photoshop and played around with the lens distortion correction in this version.
However, I still wanted the distortion in the ice, so this rather simple task ended up being more involved. Ha! I am rather pleased with the outcome. It’s nice to see straight lines on the building rather than angled walls! Wide angle is much more forgiving with the organic shapes of nature since we don’t expect those to be so angular and straight. Btw – there’s a chance for northern lights this week! Been trying to keep updates going in the stories. :). I have to work, so I will be sitting this one out.
Absolutely insane red pillars of the Aurora showed up above Limfjord in my hometown in Denmark. The happiness will never disappear when watching the sky glow like this.
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Every color of the rainbow takes turns dancing over the Delta Mountains in Alaska. This was one of the most breathtaking moments of my life, and I don’t say that lightly. I had just finished shooting the ice cave from my previous post and saw the lights starting to dance more quickly. What happened over the next five minutes was indescribable. I’ve been lucky enough to see the northern lights around 30-40 times, but never have I witnessed half of the colors I saw that night.
This was on one of my last nights in ReykjavÃk. I was watching a movie in my apartment, and I went on the balcony and saw an amazing light show and ran up to the church to catch this photo.
Alien world. Sheets of rainbow Auroras on the horizon, while the core of the Milky Way galaxy aligns with the @nsfgov South Pole Telescope. It’s a magical alien world down here.
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This was my second visit to this magnificent place, the mighty Segla peak, raised like a shark fin from the fjord of Senja island, I camped here for only this night, and the Aurora forecast didn’t look well then, but due to the schedule I didn’t have any choice, but I was blown away by so far the best birthday gift from the gods, yes it’s my birthday exactly the day, what an unforgettable night.
The Northern light exploded almost 360°. This composition is facing south, so it required Aurora flow to the southern sky, it’s really difficult to complete if the KP value is low, so it was an extremely lucky night! I used a total of four merged frames to complete this work. Three frames were taken at the blue hour for a high-detailed foreground with focus stacked and one frame from the night Aurora. You can also see the moon at the top-right corner, this is an extremely wide-angle Vertorama, and it’s the best way to capture this kind of image.
We were out, performing some tests on the South Pole Telescope at 3 am, when Rainbow Auroras lit up the sky. I used a torch to illuminate the telescope’s reflective photogrammetry targets, which are used to measure the deformation of the dish. I also attempted to take a timelapse but hadn’t brought my insulated camera
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