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Photographer Captures NASA Rocket Flying Over the Northern Lights

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Photographer Florian Kuhnt was hiking with a friend in northern Norway in order to capture the northern lights. On his last night, he was about to pack up his camera when he noticed a bright light in the sky, what he would later realize was a NASA rocket.

Kuhnt, who studies aerospace engineering in Hamburg, Germany, and does landscape and outdoor photography part-time, tells PetaPixel that he was in the Lofoten region of Norway in order to specifically photograph the northern lights.

"The plan was to hike up Ryten to capture the sunset and northern lights over the Kvalvika beach, camp there for one night, hike down the next morning to the beach, and then back to the car," he says. "Around 5.5 miles round trip."

Hiking in Lofoton, Norway

The two reached the summit in the early evening and started to take a few photos. They eventually came down a bit from the true summit because the high winds made it impossible to set up a tent.

"After setting up the tent we stayed outside in the cold to wait for northern lights. At that time I had already set up my camera and took a few pictures of our tent under the stars," he continues.

setting up a tent in lofoton to see the stars

The northern lights are somewhat predictable, but their strength is affected by the time of year and even then varies from night to night.

"Almost two hours later, the first northern lights appeared but were really, really faint," he says. "So I patiently waited for more while my friend went into the tent to prepare everything for the night."

faint northern lights early in the night

Kuhnt says that after another hour, he was fighting the cold and wasn't seeing the strength of the northern lights increasing by much. Ready to call it for the night, he started to pack up his gear and get to sleep. But as he started to break down his camera and tripod, he saw something in the sky.

Bright light in the sky behind Northern Lights

"I suddenly noticed two really bright, cloud-like objects moving in the sky," he recalls. "They moved really fast across the sky coming from the south towards the north. The whole event lasted about five minutes and I was able to get a few shots. Due to the fast velocity, I had to increase the ISO up to 12,800 for a higher shutter speed to get a decent exposure without motion blur."

NASA Rocket behind the northern lights

Kuhnt shot multiple photos of the event with his Canon 5D Mark III and Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 II lens. He says that he had never seen anything like it before and was, at first, not sure what he was looking at, but then remembered seeing photos of the SpaceX launch over Los Angeles.

NASA Rocket behind the northern lights

"I googled the latest rocket launches and saw that an Atlas V rocket just launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying the Landsat 9 Satellite," he says. "After a bit of research, I was sure that we just witnessed the deorbit burn of the Centaur Upper Stage and fuel blowout. Those both clouds got illuminated by the Sun which made them visible. The rocket itself is too small to see with the eye since it’s orbiting between somewhere about 550 to 680 kilometers in altitude. The launch alone would be really exciting to witness but that it flew right through the northern lights was just the icing on the cake."

NASA's Landsat 9 recently captured its first images of Earth as part of its mission to document the changes to the topography of the planet over a series of years. Kuhnt says that the path of the rocket went right over his location in Norway, which can be seen in the trajectory animation video below (around the 28-second mark):

Despite the incredible luck of seeing a rocket though the northern lights, Kuhnt says he had to abort their trip in the middle of the night because the wind increased and changed its direction.

"After the second tent pole broke we decided to call it a day (or night) and we descended two hours to the car at 3:00 AM. But overall it was a nice trip," he says.

More of Kuhnt's work can be seen on his website and Instagram.

_Image credits: Photos by Florian Kuhnt and published with permission. _

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Photographer Captures NASA Rocket Flying Over the Northern Lights

A rare and spectacular happenstance.

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Weiße Rose

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Guten Morgen #Welt!

Auf den großen #Kürbis habe ich nicht gewartet, …

… aber gefühlt wie #Linus, habe ich mich! Die dunkelsten und wahrscheinlich auch schmutzigsten #Feldwege, habe ich die Nacht aufgesucht und auf eine #Wolkenlücke gewartet. Keine Chance! Aber dies sind #Stunden die ich für mich gut nutzen konnte. Es gab zwar keine #Aurora #Borealis aber gute #Gedanken und #Ideen für mich.

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Bom-dia :) - APOD: A Rorschach Aurora (2021 Oct 30) -
Uma #Aurora Rorschach (2021 30 de outubro) -
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211030.html -
Se você ver isso como o rosto de um monstro, não entre em pânico. É apenas #Pareidolia, frequentemente experimentada como a tendência de ver rostos em padrões de luz e sombra. Na verdade, a cena visual surpreendente é na verdade um panorama de 180 graus da Aurora Boreal, espelhada digitalmente como manchas de tinta em um pedaço de papel dobrado. As estruturas usadas para construí-lo foram capturadas em uma noite de setembro no meio de uma ponte suspensa que cruza uma cachoeira em Jamtland, na Suécia. Com as tempestades geomagnéticas desencadeadas pela atividade solar recente, as exibições aurorais podem ser muito ativas nas altas latitudes do planeta Terra nos próximos dias. Mas se você vir o rosto de um monstro em sua vizinhança amanhã à noite, pode ser apenas o Halloween. - Crédito de imagem e direitos autorais: Göran Strand - Tradução do Google -

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Photo of Aurora, courtesy of NASA. Aurora (also known as Northern or Southern lights) form when energetic articles flow down magnetic field lines of the magnetosphere and strike air articles in the atmosphere. Normally, aurora are seen close to the poles, since that's where Earth's magnetic field lines touch down. During a geomagnetic storm, the aurora can sometimes be seen closer to the equator.

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Iceland Hotel Offers Month’s Stay In Exchange for Northern Lights Photos

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A hotel in Iceland is offering a unique opportunity for one photographer: in exchange for photos of the Northern Lights, it will provide airfare to the country as well as a month of room and board.

As spotted by Travel and Leisure, Hotel Rangá, located in the countryside of South Iceland and a 90-minute drive away from the capital Reykjavik, is on the lookout for one traveling photographer who can showcase the hotel's spectacular location which is ideal for viewing Northern Lights. This is the first time the hotel is seeking an official "lights catcher."

As peak Northern Lights season -- from September through to March -- is approaching Iceland, the chosen applicant will receive room and board at the hotel as well as a round trip flight in exchange for both photo and video content of the beautiful natural phenomenon from mid-September to mid of October this year.

Additional hotel amenities available to the chosen applicant include access to the hotel's stargazing observatory, hot tubs, and the opportunity to explore the wide and photogenic landscape of the area on the shooter's days off.

The photographer will also have an option to visit The Highland Center Hrauneyjar, which is the hotel's sister property located in the uninhabited center of Iceland -- the Iceland highlands.

In return for this, the hotel asks a commitment of three weeks during which the photographer will provide high-quality Northern Lights photos and videos, with an unlimited license assigned to the hotel so that it can use them in promotional materials, be it printed or on the web, for an unlimited period of time. While the request to hand over full copyright to the hotel might seem like a steep ask, the "work for hire" exchange of room, board, and travel seems like a fair ask.

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Alongside general information, the application requires photographers to submit why they think they should become the hotel's light catcher, whether they have any experience in photographing in darkness, have been to Iceland prior, or have captured Northern Lights before, and whether they have been vaccinated.

This is not the first time that Hotel Rangá has used innovative marketing techniques. Last year it offered free stays to women who proposed to their partners on Leap Day, and during the pandemic, it sent 700 free postcards to those who had requested them for Valentine's Day.

Photographers interested in the opportunity can apply on the Hotel Rangá website. Although current travel restrictions to Iceland don't apply to travelers with proof of vaccination or prior infection, all foreign visitors are required to preregister, with all the up-to-date travel news and restrictions available on the Island website.

Image credits: Header photo licensed via Depositphotos.

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