Another Aurora - hopefully this gives you a sense of scale.

[Simms]

I love Aurora shots, they never fail to amaze me, but one thing I have found is that I have never been able to get a sense of scale how big they (the AB) are from the photos. I guess as a hobbyist astronomer and ex-pro photographer one of the things I was trying to achieve when in Iceland was to bring a sense of scale to the images - and what better way than trying to include some well known constellations - in particular Orion. Hopefully this will allow some of you to grasp how huge the AB are when in full flow - a 16mm lens just doesn't cut it!

[Stargazer33]

Very nice picture! What were your settings? Pretty short I'm guessing as the AB hasn't blurred too much and Jupiter hasn't completely burnt out.

[Simms]

Very nice picture! What were your settings? Pretty short I'm guessing as the AB hasn't blurred too much and Jupiter hasn't completely burnt out.

ISO4000, f2.8, 10 secs, 16mm

[knobby]

Pretty awesome

[Fay]

one of the best!

Fay

[nightvision]

Wow that's superb, certainly captures the scale.

[Beyond_Vision]

A beautiful image the star-scape shows through the Aurora really nicely. Especially Jupiter and Hyades and the Pleiades. I love the curtain effect of the Aurora seen from almost side on

Regards

[StarDome]

Great shot, lovely stuff thanks for sharing

[sologuitarist61]

Truly spectacular!

[StarDome]

Thats a beautiful shot

[StarDome]

Where in Iceland were you when you took the shot?.

[tich]

That's a cracking image,

[Simms]

Where in Iceland were you when you took the shot?.

Thingvellir - spelt wrong, but its in the SouthWest of Iceland. roughly -12c at the time, one of the milder nights!