A faint aurora in the moonlight over the coastal mountains of northern Norway north of Tromsø, from at sea. The Big Dipper is at left. Illumination is from a waxing gibbous Moon. This is from Deck 6 forward from the ms Trollfjord. A single 1.3-second exposure at f/2 with the 15mm lens and Sony a7III at ISO 3200.
A 360° panorama of the moonlit night sky from the Lofoten Islands on October 15-16, 2019, with the waning gibbous Moon bright in the southeast at left. The Pleiades and Taurus are rising at far left. Orion is just rising above the moutains at left. Deneb and Vega are at centre. The Big Dipper and due north is at right. We are sailing north. There is only the faintest wisps of aurora visible at this time. This is an 11-section panorama, stitched with Adobe Camera Raw, each segment 1.3-seconds at ISO 1600 and f/2 with the 15mm lens and Sony a7III. Inevitably the rocking of the ship misaligns the ship with the background landscape, so the software aligns as best it can on the landscape and so the ship railings misalign at the seams. But all considering, it is remarkable this works at all from a moving ship, though the sea was calm this night.
