This is the culmination of many, many hours of timelapsing the auroras this winter.

All footage is made in Andenes, Andøya in north of Norway.

I used two DSLR's, a Canon 350D and a 40D wich took thousands of pictures, then batch processed some of the series and later on put them together to small movies using a fantastic little free program called VirtualDub.

It was a constant struggle against wind, snow and cold. I could not always place the cameras where I wanted to because of wind. That is why you see some fences, because I had to place the camera behind buildings so it wouldnt fall. It took me about 1.5 hour to make 10 seconds of film, mostly taking long exposures at 10 or 13 sec, all depending.

The aurora season this year was not very active but Im glad I atleast got these shots.

The music is licenced by Jamendo, the artist is called Galdson and the nice song is named Merlaska.

This video is not to be used anywhere else than vimeo, without further agreement with me. I can be contacted at terje@nesthus.net

I hope you enjoy this movie :)

© Terje Nesthus 2009

This movie is made by Canon 40D + Sigma 10-20mm set at: 10mm, f4, iso 800, 10 sec expos.

Its made of ca 420 frames , wich are batch-prosessed in Photoshop to enhance colors and lightness, then put together to a 1920x1080 H264 30fps movie.

It is recorded in Andenes, Andøy, Norway :)

At Andenes in Andøy, Norway.
Made with a Canon 40D, Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm, f4, iso 800, 10 sec exposures. 430 exposures made into a 20fps movie.

Good auroras usually start with one or more arcs across the sky slowly drifting south, then suddenly brightening and spreading across the sky. Unfortunately this time lapse was cut short by a coating of ice forming on the lens (can be seen as a blurry patch spreading from the middle towards the end).

Only modest auroral activity was expected this night, and so much greater was the surprise to realize that the camera had captured what appear to be 3 separate substorms in less than 3 hours (usually you'll be lucky to see one within 2 hours of the last). The onset of the last substorm (1:23) is extremely bright and impressive, but lasts less than a minute and is too fast and dynamic to be captured in a time lapse.