Northern Lights - In Real Time!

[durron19]

Cool, now I REALLY want see this in person.

[RandomLevitation]

Being from California, the only Northern Lights i get to see is in a bag.

[erc911]

The video was very good! You're very lucky to live in a place like this. Thanks for sharing these wonders! OMG!!!!!!!

[mizzlepchenske]

I've always wondered.  They still look spectacular.

[JGFowler121]

I still love this video and watch it almost every week. What a gem!

[M1ZXG]

@JGFowler121 Yep. They should be proud of the way it turned out :)) I was lucky enough to have seen the biggest aurora on record but i have my dog to thank for that...someone has to walk her :) glad it was me that night:D

[bobbico03]

Yes! Thank you. Many of us have wondered how these lights look like.

[bobbico03]

Yes! Thank you. Many of us have wondered how these lights look like.

[ceridwengwyon]

thank you for posting this video. It's great to know what they actually look like in real time. :)

[elli0grn08]

yes .. this is more of what I've seen here ... just add a hint more of the palest of green ... it is to strange to see the Stars thru the aurora ... but that is what I found here in Montana (ps: don't forget to be freezing your buns off all the while lol)

[OctoberLifeImages]

Long exposure photography does pick up a great deal more color than the naked eye it's true, but aurora are also a lot more colorful and bright, especially in their most active stages than  this video depicts

[redshift40]

@OctoberLifeImages - these looked mostly white to the naked eye and they often have no colour in them at all here at this latitude.

[Mostnorthern]

@OctoberLifeImages

When they are more active than this, they are called Dancing. They are very colorful and are a lot faster in movement

[redshift40]

@Mostnorthern - these were very active and dancing. Watch from 4:16 on, they are moving very fast but had no colour to them to the naked eye. They do not always have colour to them. The Kp 8 storm last night also had no visual colour from this latitude.

[mokeymina]

hey Red, how come long time exposure would pick up the colors and not real time? and does it just look light light in real time? And.. it it always slow moving or are there surprises sometimes?

[evildead2002]

awesome always wanted to see it real time! :D

[chicken6000]

I saw these last night from north norway. I live in ireland , and the green colours of it sometimes red, is beautiful to see against a clear starry night sky. I feel very priveliged to see it. I hope anyone who wants to see them will be as lucky as me. thanks for the video my good man.

[TheFubbick]

Why is this video in black&white?

[redshift40]

@TheFubbick - it was fimed in night vision on a video cam, it seems to invert the colous. They were not in colour to the naked eye this time. A long exposure photo would have picked up greens and red.

[StormLight13]

I know its been said, but I wanted to put my own thanks in. I'm doing reserch for a casual story of mine, and it sucks because I'll probably never get to see the northern lights for myself, but I wanted to get an idea of what it looked like without flashy timelapse. Thanks again for keeping this video up.

[raoulmuchacho]

Posting this video has been one GREAT thing you have done, mate! Many Brazilian thanks! Come see the world cup with us in 2014. Lol lol

[IPangkhor]

thanks man :) just a thing i wanted to see!!! great work!

[chocolatemilkibar]

Never mind it's not a "professional" video, this is great!! I like how it also shows the lights in relation to the town, thanks for posting!!

[WeirdGirlCyndi]

I'm in California where I can't see the auroras. Thanks for posting this, they're beautiful!

[train672]

Many thanks, this the first video I have seen of the aurora as it actually is.

I wish the TV programmes would at least say their vids are speeded up.

Only one minor criticism, it perhaps would have been better with a tripod, otherwise excellent.

It looked like it was right on top of you - did it light everything up like a full moon?

[M424Filmcast]

Awesomeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! :)

[suavementechica]

Thats soooooo cool

but extremely creepy

[passsword95]

The northern lights are the ghosts of the night

[SyntheticHeaven]

While it's been said, I feel obligated to agree - it's great to see in real time, and definitely moves a lot faster than expected, which is very, very cool. Makes me want see it in person more. Thanks for the vid and the beautifully fitting music. :)

[lufrazu]

Good video. Where was that? I've always wanted see them, but I don't know a good place to live that great experience.

Greetings from Mexico City.

[brix04]

you can see them here in canada everyday

[tsaeshyan]

@brix04 Which part of Canada? I am from Taiwan.

[brix04]

@tsaeshyan

Im in Toronto now, but when i was living in Vancouver we were able to see them on a nightly bases

[yuriogy1]

thanks for uploading this

everyone speeds their videos up i just wanted to see what it looked like in real time

[pinkhotchoco]

Thank you for posting this without a time lapse. I'd always wondered how fast they move in peron.

[redshift40]

YW pink.

[Kneedragon1962]

That really is spectacular. I have often wondered about that exact thing, like how quickly does it all move and change? Thank you.

[cindyearth]

Good stuff! Very authentic.

Not to capture on timelapse.....

[Choowbz]

That is a lot faster than i expected for real time.

I thought i was just going to see a bright cloud just hanging in the sky, but they have a lot of movement. And brightness.

Even in the most southern parts of Australia you see nothing like this.

[MoistMilk]

I really want to see this before I Die,

Just spend a whole night staring up at the sky - And perhaps get stoned at the same time..the total beauty of this is amazing.

[ridezealand]

Awesome stuff. I enjoy Joe Satriani's music, too.

[Drewster327]

Pretty sweet, for those us that haven't seen those at all, it's pretty cool to see them in real time. I've seen Noctilucent clouds, and a lot of strange weather things, but not yet to see the aurora's, defintely a must see b4 i leave the earth

[amigo25zmy]

Yeh this is definitely going on my list of things to do before I die.

[redshift40]

There was a storm last night (Kp= 6) It was nice to see the aurora after so long. I will post some of the photos later.

[EmoxDayz]

I wana see one before i die! life goal (:

there so amazingly beautiful, gotta say though, they do look better on pictures, but this is coool (:

[JGFowler121]

This great! It makes me think back to Flin Flon Manitoba where I first swa the Aurora Borealis. Thanks, and a great soundtrack!

[rsrkdo]

Thank you. FInally someone has a video of actual realtime auroras. Not some montage of photos or something that looks like high speed weather cameras.

[MidnighTempStress]

wow...so thats how they really look lik real live!

[uglys101]

I live in Labrador i see the northern lights, and they are like this video but with more green color. there is even a ground observation station here ,infor used by nasa.

last march 08 we had a good showing, sky was full of northern lights and moving more quicker than normal i showed my preteen kids the lights one late night. They weren't impressed! the comment they made was "dad they're not like the pictures".

[thekoiponds]

thx for sharing

[JewTubeDidWTC]

That's amazing. I always thought they were very still and the movement was an artistic effect of camera editing. Beautiful. I hope I can see them in real life someday.

[demonizedin42]

thank you for this vid!! been looking for a real time- granted - the vid-cam is used in the wrong settings and pixelization/coloe quality is scant at best - but you disclosed. NP here.

I imagine it a bit better in person that some video/conditions cant film by the naked eye by ametuers like me, etc.

I knew it moved slower and it's cool that way - thanks for posting!!

[redshift40]

YW.

Cam was in night shot, any other setting would not show anything. It was not a great conversion when I captured, and it's been compressed twice. It is 100 times better with the naked eye.

At 4:18 it shows how fast they can move too. I have a better camera now, but it is not made for low light conditions. You can get very low lux cameras that would pick up more light.

[RustyShuriken]

wow... wait, is it SUPPOSED to be black and white?... oh well, i can't wait until i see aurora borealis with my own eyes!

[gntlmnjac]

It would have more effect if you weren't moving the camera so much.  Only when we see the trees on the horizon can we tell if the aurora is moving or if it is the camera. Thanks for the informative post though!

[gtristdan]

Thank you for this, because it seems like almost every time I see a video of the Northern Lights, it's either sped up, or slowed down.. and I always wondered how they actually moved

Cheers

[AlwaysAbiggerFish]

Agreed

[Miss118]

Maybe this is a stupid question,

but why are the photos of the Aurora Borealis all very colorful and gorgeous,

but videos are not the same?

[DEMONHAIRandFEATHERS]

i think it's because the camera can't capture colors if there ain't another light source.

the time lapse versions are so colorful because with that method it's easier to capture colors because of the exposure time or something like that.

i hope that vague explanation helped :)

[Miss118]

thanks! :]

[redshift40]

This video was shot in night mode. It will not pick up much colour. The shutter speed is also too fast.

[mandkshow266]

why is it in white black?????

[Lotusgirl47]

Thanks I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have always wanted to view the Northern Lights in real time. The music is goes well with your footage!

[bcjew]

good video. i always wondered what aurora is like in real time. i thought it would look static when viewed in real time.

[c150gremlin]

Sweet!

[mightmightmight]

Its just amazing. I want to see that in real life. The beauty of nature. Surely man can never challenge nature.

[JGFowler121]

The video was great. Made me think of Flin Flon and the light show there.

[N37BU6]

THANK YOU!

I've always wondered what it was like in real time... I only just bothered to Google it. :)

I saw it in Eastern Canada 2 years ago, but it was a rare, fleeting event. It was very red, with no definition.

[collyflower74]

I saw similar displays at my house in Scotland years ago!! Its truely amazing and speaks of creation for sure... and Joe Satriani = amazing!!!

[gnatpiz]

Very cool. I have a faint memory of seeing the aurora as a child in Danville, Il. back in the late '50's. Not much, just a faint green glow. I've always wondered what their natural movement looked like. Seems to me it happens at sort of Lava Lamp speed....

[TXDidj]

Nice job - it's amazing how technology has advanced (at least to us, the end consumer) so that it's now possible to video these amazing wonders of the North. I lived in Alaska in 1997 and tried to film them and came out with nothing but blackness.

Good job for you! Thanks for sharing with us who live waaaaaaay down South (Texas).

Harold

[edro3111]

Thank you for the great video and insight!

[dracsilva]

walllll..... nice vid! thanks.

[rhodalenegdr]

hello redshift. thanks for posting this vid. i agree with damiandmn. ive also wondered ever since how it looks like in real life, not just in pics. even if it looks white in the vid, it still looks great. the way it moves is really amazing. wish i'd see one in the near future. im here in the east, and it's very impossible for an aurora borealis to happen here.

God is truly great.

thanks again and God bless.

[uwarules]

come on give science some credit here

[tpenkzion]

for the colors... God!! amaziiiing!! Jah bless!! and i wonder the back sound. its from Joe satriani but i forget what it calls? any one can tell me thanx'z

[FireFytingNut]

Thank you SO much Redshift, for sharing this. I have a couple of questions about this.

First, since the camera can't pick up colors as well unless it's in time lapse form, what about in real life with your own eyes? Are the colors vivid in real life with your own eyes as shown in the time lapse version? Or does the time lapse still come up with some colors our eyes may not see?

Also, I couldn't determine if your video was in black and white or in color. Looked black and white I think.

[redshift40]

Thanks Fire!

It is rare to see vivid colors in these with the naked eye. When they are vivid to the naked eye, the most common color is green. I have also seen red and violet-blue once, but that is very rare. Most of the time they appear white to the human eye, taking a photo would show them as bright green or red.This was filmed in color, but set on night shot.

[FireFytingNut]

Interesting! See, I really figured that the way we would see them would be full of vivid colors of green, pink, blue, purple etc as they flowed in the sky. Even if the lights are a whitish color, they're amazing!! Thank you for the reply. I live near Kansas City and I've heard we can see them here from time to time. I've just never had the pleasure of catching it! Take care and thanks again for sharing this!

[damiandmn]

Thank you for sharing this!! We´ve been wondering what they look like in real life... and it is kinda hard to get there and see them for ourselves... so THANX!!! Excelent work!

[redshift40]

Your welcome, I am glad you enjoyed this.

[umleroi]

Thank you for posting! It looks so much more ethereal in realtime. The subtle rhythmic undulations are lost in time-lapse. too bad it wasn't in color, but still awesome!

[momoflakes]

Thank You thank you thank you thank you!!! I've always wondered what they looked like for real, and last time I was in Alaska, I was not able to see the aurora borealis, it wasn't in season :(

Thanks again for this awesome video!

[Callidus80]

Awesome, Thanks redshift40.

I have been looking for years for a video showing realtime aurora borealis and there it is!

Thankyou!

[teddyluv24]

wow. aourn 4:50, it looks almost like if it was ocming off the roof! =]

thats amazing! hope u can get some more captures of htese amazing lights~ =D

[mikomio]

Great, thank you so much for posting a video in real time.. those time laps videos don't give you any idea of how beautiful the changing of the patterns itself really is.

[redshift40]

Your welcome milkomio, I am glad you liked it. I have never seen a video like this anywhere.

4:18 - 4:50 really shows how extremely fast they can move. Sorry I had auto focus on, this was taken with the first video cam I got.

[pajamaninja367]

Thats awesome

thanks for posting

[kibidk]

Awesome! Greatto finally see a live video of what it looks like in real life, instead of all those timelapsed videos they always show in official programs. Thanks for sharing!

[noelgyger]

AMAZING, I need to get out of my house and look up and maybe I can see the same. Thanks for sharing.