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The northern lights are spectacular this year, but the strongest are still to come

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The northern lights have hit headlines lately as solar flares have sent charged plasma hurtling through space at break-neck speeds. We’ve had reports of aurora being visible at seriously low latitudes, including Luxembourg. There’s a reason for this, and any nighttime photographers need to know what’s going on.

I’ve written a book about the northern lights. It’s a huge passion of mine and I’ve made it my mission to educate myself on nature’s greatest light show as much as I possibly can. I was lucky enough to have spent the past winter travelling throughout the Arctic in my van. I witnessed the aurora on an almost nightly basis and enhanced my knowledge through research and observation. While I love to dive into the science and the technicalities, I’ll spare you those details in favour of the more exciting stuff.

Even New Yorkers could see the northern lights due to the recent solar storm

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Aurora borealis or northern light is usually visible in the areas close to the center of the Arctic Circle. However, due to the recent solar storm, you may be able to see it as far south as New York! The geomagnetic storm has pushed the aurora closer to the south, so you don’t have to travel as far to the north to capture it in your photos.

Chinese rocket blasts in the sky photobombing aurora in Alaska

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When someone mentions photobombing, I usually think of those annoying friends who ruin every shot. However, some photobombs can actually be pretty cool (I mean, just check this owl and this crow).

But it’s not only animals that make the best photobombs. Aurora Chasers’ Alaska Aurora Cam recently captured a Chinese rocket in the middle of filming aurora borealis. The lucky incident ended in a pretty epic video, with the team also explaining what happened.

Canadian photographer captures incredible aurora photographs created by intense solar storms

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A series of particularly intense solar storms have helped create extremely vivid aurora borealis (northern lights) this past week. Astrophotographers across the upper regions of the Northern hemisphere have gone out to capture the incredible phenomena with the lights being visible much further south than is usual due to the greater intensity of the solar storms.

Saskatchewan based Photographer Jenny Hagan took advantage of the situation and created these beautiful images. She describes to DIYP what it was like to witness and photograph such an event.

Photographer captures northern lights and light pillars in one single exposure

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It’s not every day that you manage to photograph a selfie with not just one, but two types of unusual night sky phenomena. That is exactly what happened when Brazilian photographer Alexandre Correia captured this incredible image that includes both the aurora borealis and light pillars.

Correia captured the image near Kautokeino in the far northern part of Norway in early February. The image was captured in a single exposure and it was truly a once in a lifetime image, and he even managed to include himself.

This stunning compilation puts 8 days of aurora borealis into a 3-minute video

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If there’s one thing I can’t get enough of in photos and videos, it’s aurora borealis. And if you’re like me, photographer Vincent Ledvina has created something perfect. After spending nearly three weeks in Alaska, he combined thousands of photos of northern lights he took at different locations and created a magnificent timelapse compilation.

How and why I captured this unique 2022 aurora borealis photograph

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I am Virgil Reglioni, 33 years old. From France. I have spent the last six winters working as an Outdoor Nature guide and aurora photographer in the Arctic. After discovering Lapland, Finland, for the first time in 2016, I witnessed my first Northern lights and got hooked with night photography and especially the auroras. This unique niche of photography has now become my signature.

I simply adore exploring and finding new places hard to access in deep valleys or mountain tops. I aim to catch the “never seen before” aurora photographs. To me, this is a key aspect of my photography; The unseen. I want to capture the Northern Light in a way we never see it, to be able to enhance its uniqueness and spontaneity.

2021 Northern Lights Photographer of the Year winners reveal the otherworldly beauty of Aurorae

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I’m pretty sure that capturing the Northern lights is on every landscape photographer’s bucket list. Well, it sure is on mine. If you’re looking for inspiration and a reason to finally travel and see the Aurora Borealis in person, the travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has a real treat! The winners of the annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year contest have just been announced, and we share the top images with you.

Iceland hotel wants your Aurora photos in exchange for a free month’s stay

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Aurora Borealis is “the holy grail” for many landscape photographers. If you’re one of them, a hotel in Iceland has a unique offer that you may want to apply for. They will give you a month of room and board and cover your travel expenses. You don’t need to pay with money, but with your photos and videos of the Northern lights.

Feast your eyes on these stunning Aurora images from Northern Lights Photographer of the Year 2020

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Travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has published a stunning collection of Aurora images. The annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year collection features 25 mesmerizing photos of the Northern Lights, and today we share some of them with you.

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