En compagnie verte - Aurore au-dessus du Norvege
Image Credit & Copyright:
Max Rive
Raise your arms if you see an aurora.
With those instructions, two nights went by with, well, clouds -- mostly.
On the third night of returning to same peaks, though,
the sky not only cleared up but lit up with a
spectacular auroral display.
Arms went high in the air, patience and experience paid off,
and the creative
featured image was captured as a composite from three separate
exposures.
The setting is a summit of the
Austnesfjorden
fjord close to the town of
Svolvear on the
Lofoten islands in northern Norway.
The time was early 2014.
Although our
Sun has just passed the
solar minimum of its
11-year cycle,
surface activity should pick up over the next
few years with the promise of triggering more
spectacular auroras on
Earth.