The Aurora Borealis is like a sunset in one sense—it never looks the same twice. These photos were taken on September 7 2015 in Nykarleby, Finland.
Here people often make the mistake of thinking that the Aurora Borealis can only be seen in the winter when it's really cold. The reason for this being that our summers are so light even at night that it's impossible to see the Aurora Borealis. And in the winter, when it's dark not only at night but most of the day too, you can only see it when it's cold. That's because it's not that cold when it's cloudy, and the clouds cover the Aurora Borealis too.
Well, anyway you can see it whenever it's dark enough. I use to check the Aurora activity on a few websites, such as this one, and then wait until it's dark before I take a look at the sky. This particular evening I knew the possibility was hight. To be honest it turned out to be one of the biggest Aurora Borealis shows I've ever seen. You could see it in any direction and it more or less covered the whole sky. It was pure fantastic! It lit up the road on the pier with its green light so I didn't even have to use my flash light.
I placed the camera on a tripod, turned the ISO upp to 1000 and shot it at 20 seconds with f-stop 6.3. I also took a few pictures of myself holding a flash light that I lit for maybe one second and then trying not to move too much for the rest of the exposure time.
After about half an hour the Aurora Borealis started to fade and I decided to go back home.
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| View to the west. |
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| Looking straight up. |
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| Looking north. |
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| North-east view. |
