November 5th, 2023 - Northern Lights
In the middle of the night, we were woken up by our friends on the phone at around 3.30 am. They had actually spotted the northern lights.
However, it was very faint and barely visible to the eye. To the naked eye it looked like a soft gray cloud. Only the post-processed long exposure then showed the typical pink/green coloration:
As we had no program today, we had another big breakfast and enjoyed another view of the sunrise in front of the hotel. This time, the icebergs glowed golden in the rays of the rising sun:
Photographic preparation
We spent the rest of the day relaxing in our hotel rooms and enjoying the view. I then prepared myself for the night ahead. To make sure I didn’t miss any northern lights this time, I set up my cameras in the afternoon and prepared them for continuous shooting. They would then take pictures continuously at approximately one-minute intervals.
Here is a picture of my setup:
And a first picture created in this way at dusk:
After setting up the cameras, we met up with our friends in the hotel restaurant. For our last dinner in Greenland, we tried the local crustaceans this time: spider crab / snow crab, fish roe and prawns. The meal was very laborious 😥, delicious 😋 and extensive.
Even before our dinner in the hotel restaurant, I had started my two cameras and this time I was lucky. From around 3:00 a.m. onwards, the northern lights appeared. Here are some of the shots from that night:
In total, I took almost 2000 individual images with my two cameras that night. I then combined three sequences from this series into a timelapse video, which you can see here: