TROMSO NORWAY 17 JANUARY 2024
We headed out from our hotel in the heart of Tromso, for our short journey to our location for the aurora. The potential tonight was very good KP4 with a strong southerly flow.
The immediate vicinity was forecast to have clear skies all evening so visibility would not be an issue. Therefore we would not have to travel far to find the clear skies required for viewing the aurora.
We decided to head to the base camp of Tromso Friluftsenter our tour company that we had joined for the evening.
We arrived there within half an hour and waited watching the skies by our camp fire.
After about an hour the aurora began to appear, a thin fast rippling green band on the northern horizon. This quickly began to intensify an began to start curling in ribbons lasting for a good half an hour.
We were in a new moon cycle and the moon illuminated the sky directly where the aurora was at it strongest. This made for tricky exposures to endure the aurora wasn't burnt out by the full moon.
The aurora intensified further as it became active in bursts in different areas of the sky, which meant we had to constantly change our shooting positions, which helped to give us a variety of different shots.
After a couple of hours we thought the display was over for the evening only to be provided with a brief incredibly intense display of waving curtains for a further few minutes.
Eventually around 11pm, the data showed the activity would wain for a few hours, so we decided to head back into the city.
The immediate vicinity was forecast to have clear skies all evening so visibility would not be an issue. Therefore we would not have to travel far to find the clear skies required for viewing the aurora.
We decided to head to the base camp of Tromso Friluftsenter our tour company that we had joined for the evening.
We arrived there within half an hour and waited watching the skies by our camp fire.
After about an hour the aurora began to appear, a thin fast rippling green band on the northern horizon. This quickly began to intensify an began to start curling in ribbons lasting for a good half an hour.
We were in a new moon cycle and the moon illuminated the sky directly where the aurora was at it strongest. This made for tricky exposures to endure the aurora wasn't burnt out by the full moon.
The aurora intensified further as it became active in bursts in different areas of the sky, which meant we had to constantly change our shooting positions, which helped to give us a variety of different shots.
After a couple of hours we thought the display was over for the evening only to be provided with a brief incredibly intense display of waving curtains for a further few minutes.
Eventually around 11pm, the data showed the activity would wain for a few hours, so we decided to head back into the city.
