– It is because a camera is more sensitive to light than the eye. Especially if you use a long shutter speed, it manages to capture much more light than the eye can capture. That’s according to physicist, science communicator and Northern Lights expert Veronica Danielsen. Veronica Danielsen has written the book “The Northern Lights – Aurora Borealis, the people, the myths and the science”. Photo: Lina Hindrum When pink and green northern lights colored the sky last night, many people felt that they saw it better with their mobile phone. – If you have weak dark vision, you see the northern lights worse. But it also takes a very long time to get the best night vision, so if you want to see the northern lights, you should actually sit outside in the dark, for several hours, without looking at your mobile phone, says Danielsen. Have you been disappointed by seeing the Northern Lights? Yes! It wasn’t as strong as I expected. No, the northern lights are magical, anyway. Neither or. I’ll just snap a few pictures, then I’ll see it. Show result More northern lights to come If you were to see the northern lights better with your eyes, according to Danielsen, you should get out of the city center, to a place where there is not so much light pollution. – And look to the north. At least if you are in Bergen. If you are in Svalbard, you sometimes have to look south, says Danielsen. Pink northern lights shone in the sky over Vassenden in Jølster in Vestland county on 10 October. Photo: Oddleif Løset / news Timing is also important. Some have apps that warn when the aurora might appear, but Danielsen says the greatest chance of the aurora is around the autumn solstice and spring solstice. That is, at the turn of the month September/October and March/April. – Not in the middle of winter, as one might think. Right now is a pretty good time. – Living in Northern Norway, there is a chance all year round in autumn, winter and spring, but during the autumn and spring solstice, fewer solar storms are needed to have an effect. – On Friday evening, there may be some aurora, but not as strong as yesterday, says Head of Department at Norwegian Space Research, Pål Brekke. Northern lights in Lønborglien in Bergen. Photo: Jan Børge Leirvik / news Pink northern lights captured by camera at Sotra in Øygarden in Vestland. Photo: Pia Nærø Pink and green Northern Lights over Jølster in Vestland. Photo: Oddleif Løset / news Pink and green northern lights captured by a camera, in Knarvik outside Bergen. Photo: Tiril Tveito Nordlys from Nordnes in Bergen. Photo: Christel Higraff / news The photographer of this picture believes that the camera captured the northern lights better than what the eye could see. Photo: news-tipsar Yesterday there was a KP index of 8 out of a total of 9. With a KP index of 4 tonight, it looks dark south of Central Norway, says Brekke. But there is a lot of good in store for Northern Lights enthusiasts in the future, he says. – We will now have two or three years ahead with a lot of northern lights, like we have seen in the last few weeks here in the south as well. Got a lot of reactions Anna Takle is a photographer and has over 70,000 followers on Instagram. Photo: Anna T. Takle Photographer Anna Takle also caught the northern lights in Bergen yesterday. – At first I thought it started rather weak. There were only a few streaks in the sky. When I picked up the mobile phone, I saw that it turned green and a little pink, says Takle. She herself used an iPhone with night mode and a long shutter speed to capture the northern lights. Over the course of the evening there were more northern lights, and photographer Anna T. Takle captured this with her mobile phone. Photo: Anna T. Takle Takle received many reactions to the photos she posted. Photo: Anna T. Takle – There were a lot of foreigners, who are coming to Bergen, who asked exactly about the place I was standing on. Then they think that if they stand in that place, they will see the northern lights. But, yesterday I think you would have seen it all over Bergen, says Takle. Photo: Anna T. Takle – The mobile phone with built-in night mode captures much more light than what you see. The mobile also takes a long shutter time, and then it also manages to capture more than the eye can see. – Ideally, you should use a camera where you can set the aperture, iso, and long shutter speed yourself. However, today you can get a very good picture by using your mobile phone. The stabilizer means that you can take a picture when you hold the mobile phone, without using a tripod. – Is it cheating to edit an aurora borealis photo afterwards? – Yes, if you put something on, I would say it is cheating. I take my photos in RAW and get the colors back, and then I don’t think it’s cheating. As long as you don’t add anything that wasn’t there before, I think it’s inside. Image captured by camera and edited image. Is editing cheating? Kari Nygard Tvilde – Pink is rare Northern lights expert Veronica Danielsen was also out looking at the pink northern lights in the Bergen area last night. If you want to get this, you have to be in the right place at the right time. – Pink northern lights are quite rare, says Danielsen. She explains that the different colors of the northern lights come from different gases in the atmosphere, each at its own altitude. – The pink northern lights come from nitrogen gas, which is approximately 80 to 100 kilometers above the ground. It is not very often that the solar wind particles, the ones that started the northern lights, make it this far into the atmosphere. – Those who have come across this are very lucky. Published 11.10.2024, at 19.14 Updated 11.10.2024, at 20.54
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Therefore, the best way to see the northern lights is to take a picture with a camera or mobile phone – news Vestland
