Northern Lights Video @ Tromsø Norway, 17 FEB 2010

This is NOT a timelapse but a real video! It's taken just in front of the ABC Hotell Nord, Tromsø Norway! The weather was perfect, almost no cloud there. It was twisting and dancing really fast all over the sky. I failed to record the best part of the show since I was screaming running out of the hostel. It was so bright that even the light pollution of the city could not cover it, but it looked much brighter than which I recorded in the video. I could take pictures of the aurora and the houses as background without a tripod. One of my friends even took pictures of it with his Nokia mobile phone.

這是真正的極光錄影而不是相片或相片合成的影片
當時氣候條件極佳萬里無雲
它出現時是很快速的在整個空中盤旋和移動
我錯過了最精采最亮變化最快的那一刻
因為當時我尖叫著衝出青年旅館
這段極光亮到連現場的光害都淹蓋不住他
不過現場看到的亮度還是比錄影結果要亮很多
我不用腳架拍了好幾張極光與房子的合照
同行的朋友甚至用Nokia手機也拍到了極光

There're are some techniques to find the aurora. First, there must be aurora there (or we get nothing at all), which means, the sun must be active. Check out this web site and get everything you need to know -- http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/ . An active level 2 or 3 is enough. (the maximum level in the whole year of 2009 is 3) Second, it must be no sun light, little light pollution, and little cloud (not mention if it rains...), so better go to the rough in a sunny-winter-night (just check the weather forecast).Third, the aurora would show up in anytime (from the evening to the morning), but no one knows when. And even if it shows, most of the time, people can't recognize it, or been blocked by the cloud. So, you need an aurora detector -- a DSLR with B-Shutter and an wide-angle lens. Just take photo randomly with shutters in several seconds and check the photo if there's any green lights appears in the sky. You may see green edge on a cloud, and YES, that's the aurora, be patient and keep waiting for the cloud to get away!

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[MrCJWarden]

I like this more then the time lapse thingy's, this looks more real to may and accessable if you know what I mean;p, this makes me really believe it real and that you don't need a special camara to capture this on video

[KaedeTai]

@MrCJWarden Actually, the aurora looks much brighter than it can be recorded. And it's white in the eyes.

[jamy286]

AMAZING!!

What video camera did you use?

[KaedeTai]

@jamy286 Sony HDR-XR500V in Low LUX mode with CyberLink PowerDirector 8 enhanced

[kay5437]

whats arora ????

[dreamfish1217]

段大哥跟冰雪聰明兩位：你們的對話....太好笑了啦!!