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Sun, Moon and Night Sky

The night sky isn’t a dark and empty place. At night the stars come alive and the northern lights ignite the sky in a kaleidoscope of colours. Noctilucent clouds emerge as the aurora borealis is taken over by the Midnight Sun and throughout the year the sun and moon eclipse each other in a never-ending cycle.

Photography of the night sky is a rewarding adventure. Learning to use your camera in the dark, sometimes exposed to the cold is a time to find out how much you really do know about the buttons and controls.

The night sky presents more than just stars. Lunar and solar eclipses take place in a rolling cycle across the planet. Their paths move over the landscape in an endless shadow of light. Solar eclipses take the daylight from the day making birds go quiet and the feel of dusk appear from nowhere. In contrast, the lunar eclipse is more of a waiting game, watching the moon slowly disappear before turning a deep red as the light of the sun is reflected in a surreal moment.

Noctilucent clouds appear at higher latitudes in the summer months when the Midnight Sun is about. These high clouds appear as the setting and rising sun is reflected through ice particles high in the earth’s atmosphere. They are mesmerising in their movements as they swirl and undulate across the night sky.

Finally, the Northern Lights. Energy from the sun crashes into the earth’s atmosphere making the particles glow and dance in the winter night sky. From a gentle arc through to explosive coronas these elusive and ever-changing lights can be seen in the winter months across the skies of the Northern Hemisphere.

  • northern lights over a rocky shoreline in Iceland
  • arc of northern lights
  • moon on a dark sky
  • dark sky with shimmering noctilucent clouds over a bay
  • streaks of northern lights
  • northern lights behind a forest in Sweden
  • aurora borealis
  • northern lights over rocky boulders in Westfjords in Iceland
  • moon against a blue sky
  • green and purple sky with sea
  • sun partially eclipsed by the moon
  • curtains of northern lights
  • aurora borealis over a forest
  • A small hint of green northern lights
  • curtains of northern lights over the sea in Iceland
  • solar eclipse
  • green northern lights over mountains in Iceland
  • start of lunar eclipse
  • meteor and aurora
  • pulse of northern lights
Meandering Wild

I'm Suzanne the traveller and photographer behind Meandering Wild. With over 30 years of experience travelling to different corners of the world in search of wildlife and remote locations nearly all of the advice on this website is from my own exploring.

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