Hi to everybody
We have now settled back in after returning from the Northern lights trip, Christmas and new year.
I thought I would post my experience as regards photography, lens and using the camera on the trip.
First I would like to thank everyone for there advice and thoughts, which I did take on board and tried to execute whilst on the trip.
We were part of a astronomy group 26 in total specifically looking for the Northern lights and leading us was Tom Kerss from Greenwich observatory, who was very good at predicting when the Northern lights would show themselves.
We were fortunate over the 12 days to see the Northern Lights on seven of the nights and as the trip went further north the more intense they became.
So now to photographing the Northern lights, I should add at this point that within our group we had a professional photographer from USA. On the second night the northern lights decided to show themselves and I had ready my camera in the cabin(we were two doors from the rear deck on 5 perfect) spare batteries in inside pocket as suggested, camera mounted on tripod settings sorted with spare lens in pocket (David Bailey nothing me on I thought) .Went out and up to top deck dressed like Michelin man only to be hit by a wind chill of -24 degrees and that was a wake up call. So opened tripod and focused on the northern lights only to find that I had trouble trying to focus and operate the camera not only because of my gloves but as Kell had suggested the movement of the boat from roll to up and down movement. I did persevere over two nights, trying to get some photo's I did manage to get some but sadly no where near good enough. So packed my gear away and just enjoyed the marvelous spectacle of the Northern lights.
The thing that struck me was how many of the group had brought cameras along in total 3 all the rest where using phones and in my humble opinion were getting some spectacular photo's including the wife I'm going to upload some of them taken with her phone. I did mention above about the professional photographer and the camera he was using was again a phone.
Below is a link to the trip we were on
https://www.space.com/see-northern-...astal-express-astronomy-voyage-what-to-expect.
Once again thanks to all who gave lots of help and advice it was very much appreciated I hope you all had a great Christmas and new year.
Bobbin