on friday evening february 8th, 2019
a few miles east of Grindavik in southwest Iceland along highway 427 ,
a bright and vivid northern lights ( aurora borealis ) event took place, first over the northern horizon but rapidly rising all the way to the zenith, with multiple colours.
Filmed on Berlebach tripod with a Gitzo fluid video head, on a Sony a7s camera and Sigma 16mm f/1.4 lens at 25 fps in FHD 1080p , edited in Sony Movie Studio Platinum 13 and downsized to HD 720p.
Original stereo sound - it was very windy - recorded with wind protection but some wind noise is still audible because it was really VERY windy hahahaha...
The aurora was originallly forecast to be very weak, Kp 2 only in the 27-day outlook, but got pushed to potentially Kp4 a day before based on unexpected coronal hole and solar wind impact. The actual aurora was intense, bright, very alive with very fast motion , and a lot of pink colours on top of the usual green.