we tried 1 place but moved a little lower in the landscape. After some waiting, the northern lights began to appear and even dance a little. The guests enjoyed themselves by the fire while the northern lights came into view.

we chose to drive to the Dåfjord mountain. There was little aurora to see, and 90% cloudy when we stopped on the mountain. While everyone waited in excitement, we served hot soup and sausages on a fire. But after 2 hours of waiting, everyone was rewarded for the wait, then the northern lights began with the show, it was spectacular and lasted a long time. The pictures describe most things.

The sky was full of dancing auroras, in green and pink. Amazing!! Happy new year...
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On 3rd Jan. our guests enjoyed a nice aurora display with the moonlight.
#aurora #northernlights #fullmoon #tromsø #visittromsø

KP2 cloudy and a weather report that did not promise clear skies was what we had as a starting point, but it didn't turn out that way, the Northern Lights followed us all night wherever we went. And these guests made a party all night drunk on the Aurora Borealis, what a wonderful group.

The Kp index showed 1. -15 degrees, clear skies. But Aurora had been hiding well. Around 0200 we got the green light for 5 minutes. It was simply a challenging night.

After some time waiting, we were rewarded with a fantastic aurora display on 11 December. Our guests were very happy... Thankyou for joining us....

December 6th. The moon was shining bright and the northern lights were not so strong. But we saw some activity. The moonlight makes great pictures…
Thankyou for joining us.

The Northern Lights can suddenly display while you're out, and it's good to have a phone that can take photo of that phenomen. Here are some tips on how to get your iPhone to create fantastic Northern Lights photos.

1. Select the CAMERA icon on your phone. Select the PICTURE mode.
2. Disable flash in the top left corner.
3. Activate automatic night mode on the symbol to the right of the flash symbol in the top left corner.
4. If you don't have a tripod available, support the phone against something stable, e.g. a tree. Keep the phone completely silent. The phone then selects night mode.
5. Press the arrow in the middle at the top of the screen so that it points down, then the night mode symbol (yellow) will appear above the shutter button, press it and the shutter speed scale will appear.
6. Push the shutter speed to the desired number of seconds you want the camera to capture light. Here you can choose between OFF and from 3 to 29 seconds shutter time. If the northern lights are weak, 10 to 29 seconds can be good, if the northern lights are strong, keep it to 10 seconds or less.
7. Press the shutter button and hold the phone completely still until the exposure is complete.

Good luck!

How to take pictures of the northern lights with a camera?

There is a big difference between camera and lenses so this will be a more general description:

1. Put the camera on a tripod, or on something that will keep it completely still while you take pictures.
2. Use a wide angle lens around 14 to 17mm will be good. This should have as wide aperture as possible, e.g. f:1.8-2.8 will be good,  use as low number as possible.
3. Set the mode selector to M (manual) so that you can decide all settings yourself.
4. Set the camera to manual focus, preferably with the switch on the lens if there is one, or in settings digitally. That gives the best control over the focus. Use digital zoom if available and zoom in a star and turn the focus ring until the star is as sharp and small as possible. If you have a lens with an end stop on the focus ring, turn the focus ring to infinity and take it back a little, about 1 mm.
5. Set the ISO setting: We want as short shutter speed as possible, to achieve that we have to increase the iso, but it should not be set to much above 3200. If there is a lot of light outside, then it is set down to around 800.
6. Set shutter speed: Again, we want as short a shutter speed as possible, somewhere between 1sec. and 15 sec. is ok in most cases. If the northern lights are dark, you can try increasing the shutter speed. You have to find a good combination between ISO and shutter speed.
7. Set WB (White Balance) to 4000K.
8. Now you are ready to catch the Northern Lights! Set the self-timer to 2 seconds so that the camera remains completely motionless after you have pressed the shutter button. You can also use a remote control as a trigger.

Good luck!

We went out at 18.00 with not too high hopes as the kp index showed kp1. But kp index can be somewhat difficult to trust, so we got a fantastic view of a mirror-clear night sky. It was a 2 hour fantastic show, and everyone was happy and satisfied.

Northern Lights trip to Dåfjord 23.11.22
Weather: -8 and clear skies
Kp index: Kp1
Guide: Sarah and Arnt-Inge
Guests: 5 adults

Wow! What an evening we had 21st Nov. Fantastic display of lights and Our guests were so happy :9

On 19th November our guests enjoyed a very good northern light show. The sky was beautiful with so many stars and the milky way. Thankyou for joining us

November 8th, our guests enjoyed watching the northern lights with a full moon. The scenery is beautiful with the moonlight

Great Northern Lights trip to Tromvika with 6 nice participants. Everyone got a portrait of themselves under the beautiful northern lights. They enjoyed hot soup and warmed sausages on the fire while admiring the light phenomenon in the sky.