Mesmerizing video of whales playing under the Northern Lights

Albrigsten already had a viral video claim to fame, having previously shot handsome footage of reindeer grazing under the Northern Lights.

A remarkable footage of the aurora borealis is outstanding on its own.

Quinn credits long exposure, which often captures images for long periods, for the dreamy shots of our fall night sky.

A local journalist in Norway captured stunning video footage of a group of humpback whales hunting for herring in the ocean while under a brightly colored aurora borealis, or more popularly known as northern lights. The name of the coast itself, Kvaløya, translates to “Whale Island”, which was used to honor the many whales that regularly visit the region in order to hunt for food, bask and play with each other.

Many whales started to Kvaløya to live, make use of the, laze and more.

The Northern Lights, additionally termed the Aurora Borealis, embodies an astronomical phenomenon that really transpires in each the northern and southern hemispheres, a Library of Congress fact sheet enlightens. He noticed that the marine mammals appeared to be playing with each other under the northern lights. Solar activity ejects a cloud of gas, called a “coronal mass ejection”, that collides with Earth’s magnetic field within 2 to 3 days.

This collision generates currents of charged particles that along lines of magnetic force into the Polar Regions.

The photographer chose to come back to the spot the next day to see if he could get closer to the humpback whales.

“All of a sudden I came across a bunch of humpback whales that were playing in the Northern Lights”, Albrigtsen reported to NRK, a Norwegian broadcasting service.

Have a SLR (single-lens reflex digital camera) that permits for handbook settings.

A rule of thumb is to set the camera at 800 ISO (light sensitivity) and have the aperture fully open.

Be patient, wear warm clothing and enjoy a hot beverage! Photographer Harald Albrigsten was just about to give up when he saw the whales while testing a low light condition in the area.

A Met Office spokesman said: “We are now in a period, lasting a few weeks, where these two factors are working together to increase the chances of geomagnetic disturbances, which in turn bring with them the aurora”.