Amazing high altitude activity in the North!

Since Thursday evening the activity have been excellent. With outburst so bright that even 0.8s at ISO3200 is getting burnt out!
These shots were taken last night. Here I used the Samyang 14mm on the images with the trees. And the 16-35 with the boat house

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outstanding!!!

Here is another from last night. Taken with the Samyang 14mm, iso3200, 1.6s, f/2.8
Reduced the noise and hopefully this is an better version?

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Loving the first 4 you posted, this last one looks too noisy.

tkerr wrote in post #11603732
Loving the first 4 you posted, this last one looks too noisy.

I agree so I reduced the size to avoid all that noise

ArcticShooter wrote in post #11604053
I agree so I reduced the size to avoid all that noise

Reducing the image size only makes the noise harder for people with bad eyes to notice.

Looks as though the majority of the noise is on the Green channel with a little on the other two.
Are you using Photoshop? If so you can use a little surface blur on the individual color channels to reduce the noise while maintaining image detail.

Beautiful images as always...

Amazing, where were these shot?

tkerr wrote in post #11604184
Reducing the image size only makes the noise harder for people with bad eyes to notice.

Looks as though the majority of the noise is on the Green channel with a little on the other two.
Are you using Photoshop? If so you can use a little surface blur on the individual color channels to reduce the noise while maintaining image detail.

Exactly my thought I am on a 13" screen so everything looks great for me
I use photoshop. The exposure have been increased since the image was dark. And I also sharpened. I will try to use the other channels and see if it improves

RolyRatman wrote in post #11604771
Beautiful images as always...

Thank you

bwerd wrote in post #11604797
Amazing, where were these shot?

Norway, close to the city of Tromsoe

amazing.... Love them all

Love them too. I would so love to live far enough north to be able to witness sights like this. Knowing my luck, if I booked a trip for a week hoping to glimpse them, I'd pick a week when there was no activity!

bexi20 wrote in post #11604997
amazing.... Love them all

Thank you

Sorarse wrote in post #11605116
Love them too. I would so love to live far enough north to be able to witness sights like this. Knowing my luck, if I booked a trip for a week hoping to glimpse them, I'd pick a week when there was no activity!

I think that if you go for a week you might have a chance
But you never know with the unstable weather here. Tomorrow we will get more snow so I don't know when we can spot the aurora again. It's better in February and March.

tkerr wrote in post #11604184
Reducing the image size only makes the noise harder for people with bad eyes to notice.

Looks as though the majority of the noise is on the Green channel with a little on the other two.
Are you using Photoshop? If so you can use a little surface blur on the individual color channels to reduce the noise while maintaining image detail.

Actually most of the noise was on the blue channel. So I applied a little surface blur on the blue channel and it looks way better. Thank you for the great tip

Wow, a whole other World entirely. You are very lucky to witness such things. Well done.


Martin