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Dance of the Spirits: Incredible Real Time Northern Lights from Jan 24 Solar Storm

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Uploaded by on Jan 27, 2012

This is incredible, real time footage of the Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis filmed on January 24th during the peak of a Solar Storm. This is not time-lapse, this is how the Northern Lights really can dance and move across the sky. The colours are true as well. We even captured a shooting star at 02:30.

Shot using a Sony PMW-F3 using a 2 frame slow shutter, S-Log and +18db gain (ISO 6400). Sadly compressing to H264 makes the video a bit blocky and with a lot of banding. I'll try to upload a higher quality version once I return home from Norway at the beginning of Feb.

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  • Excellent. Thanks for posting...and for shooting!

    I wonder if next time you try such a video you could set the camera focus to "Infinity". It appears that the building are sharp but the aurorae are sharper. I know that autofocus features might not make this possible. You could start by focusing on a distant tree or mountain during the daytime (if there is any!), then keep the setting.

    Thanks again.

  • @exoplanet11 The Aurora is very diffuse anyway, it is not "sharp", it is quite soft and blurry to the naked eye. There are some shots where the focus is a little off, it was -24c and the lens was icing up. Focussing during daylight doesn't really work as the extreme temperature changes can affect focus and stars will show up any miss focus much more than mountains etc. Best to focus on a bright star (which is what I did as much as the conditions would allow).

  • The music is Visions of Socrates by Martijn de Man.

    The video was filmed at a place called Ravnastua in Finnmark, Norway. It take groups interested in photographing and timing the Aurora to this magical place every winter.

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  • @SUPERSANQUAN The place Jesus was Crucified...God is the light..Soon there will be no power nore technolgy..Back as if the Ice Age...Then your gonna freak out..Like the rest of the world ...Prepare the new world will be here..By god Soon....Knowledge is power

  • @Niika6666 aha You have alot to learn...Research the 1st century google it also 4th...My ancestors!!! funny this goes back waaaay beyond Science..God is the Madd Scientist!!!...Look and search what Northern Light means...It has Several names and Meanings..one of the first Views of the lights in the sky back before the Ice Ages..It was called Gods Plan For New Earth!!!..2011 Earthquakes Storms all over the world divide land..also wild fires..Infact The Lights was viewed first...In Calvary

  • @SUPERSANQUAN well, you just fucked everything up by bringing religion into my travel plans. this is caused by SCIENCE, not by anything else. GOD IS NOT REAL. you believe in god because thats what your ancestors were FORCED to believe in when they were slaves. if they dared to question it, they were beaten severely. slavery is no longer going on, so why not go back to your true beliefs? why STILL enslave yourself by obeying the oppressive white man's religion?

  • @Niika6666 you will soon..Jesus is on his way...these things are shown to us as messages...look and see what causes this...(sun explosions) it all goes back to the bible God and Jesus not Science....all this happen around the earths most weaher disasters

  • @Niika6666 p.s. fake chris in the morning led me here :D

  • one day. some day. i will see this with my naked eye and not on youtube. and then ill probably cry like a bitch out of pure happiness that i FINALLY got to see this firsthand. some day... :(

  • thank you we see this in manitoba canada quite often the colors are spectacular curtain formations but the giant spirals are breath taking thanks again

  • I went to Lapland the last December and I got luck also, I saw the Northern Lights and it was amazing!!!

  • This is another moment that won't die because it was shared , THANK YOU !!!

  • Magnificent video! Thanks form the hearth for sharing. :) Also my compliments for the music choice. Wow, perfect video! One of my favorites from now on!

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