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.
A very faint photographic aurora in the moonlight as we pass under the bridge over the Rafsundet Strait in the Lofoten Islands, Norway, from the ms Trollfjord. The Big Dipper and Ursa Major are at centre.
The Northern Lights in the moonlight arcing over the Rafsundet Strait near the entrance to the Trollfjord in Norway. This was from the deck of the ms Trollfjord, October 15, 2019 on the northbound cruise. The crew had turned on the searchlights in preparation for entering the narrow fjord by night. The Big Dipper is at left. This is a single 0.8-second exposure at f/2 with the 15mm lens and Sony a7III at ISO 3200.
