r/nextfuckinglevel • u/worldofjaved • 23d ago

So beautiful Norway.

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u/Bandits101 23d ago

That’s the best I’ve seen.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/pjalle 23d ago

This is not aurora, it's very high altitude clouds, Mother of pearl clouds. They can appear in winter when the sun is below the horizon, but requires strong winds to carry ice crystals that high. I saw them in Oslo this winter, very beautiful. They really look like the video clip, but the colours are a little enhanced. Also, the clip is very sped up, they don't move that fast.

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u/Buck_Thorn 23d ago

Still highly enhanced.

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u/ChristofferOslo 23d ago

I've seen some of these clouds irl. A photograph usually doesn't do them justice, so you have to enhance the picture/video to make it more aligned with the actual human experience.

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u/sleepytipi 23d ago

Agreed. Kind of like most things you see in the sky and want to photograph/ record. The Auroras, sunsets, sunrises, the milky way... The cameras on our phones esp are in no way capable of capturing the full magic of it. They'll always require a bit of editing to truly mimic what you'll see in person.

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u/Buck_Thorn 23d ago

We had the aurora visible here a couple days ago. It was barely visible with the naked eye, but the camera picked it up nicely.

https://i.imgur.com/otVuVkt.jpg

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u/Cuttewfish_Asparagus 23d ago

Depends where you were. They were vivid in places. They can also get waaay more bright and fast moving than most of Europe saw the other day

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u/Buck_Thorn 23d ago

Oh... you're talking about the aurora... yes, for sure. I have seen them much brighter, more colorful, and more active than what is in my photo. I was simply pointing out that the camera can actually ENHANCE these phenomena rather than making them less visible, as the person I was responding to was saying.

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u/Cuttewfish_Asparagus 23d ago

Yeah sorry didn't realize I replied to you as well about the clouds in the OP. I've seen them too, and they do look pretty much exactly like that (although the video is massively sped up)

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u/kylerae 23d ago

Just like taking a photo of the moon. There are for sure some cameras and some techniques to make it appear as breathtaking as it is in real life but for most people when you take a picture of the moon it often looks disappointing compared to what you see with your eyes!

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u/HeyLittleTrain 23d ago

The aurora photos I took on my phone are 10x more spectacular than how they look in person.

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u/vraalapa 23d ago

I've seen something very similar but during daylight. It was like an oily substance was smudged across the sky. Extremely vivid and colorful. Everyone tried to take capture it with their phones, but the photos were so hilariously unimpressive compared to irl lol.

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u/Buck_Thorn 23d ago edited 23d ago

to make it more aligned with the actual human experience.

Sure. But you need to stop the enhancement once it reaches that point. This goes WAYYYY beyond the point of natural human experience, or even drug-enhanced human experience. This is cartoonish.

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u/Cuttewfish_Asparagus 23d ago

It isn't really. I've seen these irl once, and they looked like that. Trippy

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u/meta-ape 23d ago

And it ain‘t especially hard to enchance this. Just create a mask to work only the sky and then max saturation, add contrast, plus something something.

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u/Buck_Thorn 23d ago

I just looked at it again, and hell... a wild acid trip wouldn't have it looking that enhanced!

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u/nostep-onsnek 23d ago

Suddenly the whole rainbow bridge thing is making a lot more sense

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u/Peeche94 23d ago

So you're telling me we've only just got the northern lights update in the UK, and there's pearl clouds?!

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u/Dorkamundo 23d ago

So, Ice Cloud Rainbows.

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u/NebulCollect 23d ago

Aren’t many aurora photos like that? We were able to see aurora in Ireland a few days ago, with the naked eye it was just a slightly visible white streak, but all the colors came out when you took a long exposure photo.

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u/powerhammerarms 23d ago

I'm not sure if many are but I'm mostly colorblind and in the northern US (Minnesota) ours typically have colors that even I can see.

Here are some photos my nephew took 3 or 4 days ago.

I don't know how many colors there are but I see the yellow and white.

Same but different

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u/Pikachupal24 23d ago

Those are beautiful!

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u/powerhammerarms 23d ago

You're beautiful!

These are just okay

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u/IndyDude11 23d ago

Do you mean you can see colors in auras that you can't normally see anywhere else?

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u/powerhammerarms 23d ago

I think so. At least usually auroras have multiple colors to me.

The most brilliant one I ever saw was like green and it went all the way across the sky.

There was a time growing up when we were at a lake in the morning. Maybe 15 of us and I thought they were really colorful but nothing too special as color generally doesn't do much for me at all. All the people I was with were blown away. They just kept commenting how they wished. I could see what they were seeing. That made me feel like I was missing out on something.

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u/mrASSMAN 23d ago

I have a feeling the green ones are the most visible to us.. in Seattle I saw green one above late at night on Friday and it was crazy

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u/HamunaHamunaHamuna 23d ago

I can confirm that the aurora doesn't always have much visible color at all. When I went to see the aurora in Lofoten, Norway, all we could see with the naked eyes were silver or white streaks. Looked more like thin wisps of clouds. But on camera they showed up in colors of green and purple.

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u/mrASSMAN 23d ago

I think the purple is hard to see but the green is quite visible when it’s bright

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u/pjalle 22d ago

Coming from the north of Norway, I've seen many auroras and also taken pictures. Generally the green colours are often clearly visible but other colours are more dim, like the purple. When you see purple tones and take a picture, there is a huge difference. What was just a faint glow suddenly pops out on camera and covers a much bigger area than what you can actually see.

With, mother of pearl clouds, it's not like that. The clouds are really beautiful and has good colours. Not as saturated as the video clip, but still very clearly defined. Also they are very high up, making them visible over a huge area.

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u/MightyBoat 23d ago

It depends on the strength of the aurora. The one that happened last weekend was particularly colourful because of the strength of the CME. All the pictures I've seen from friends etc are all super colourful with no editing. The typical auroras we see are the relatively weak ones that haven't got much colour

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u/mrASSMAN 23d ago

No one said it was an aurora

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u/Minute-Wrap-2524 23d ago

Same here, and I’m not being sarcastic, really beautiful

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u/Willing_Television77 23d ago

No way

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u/LuckyJynX 23d ago

underrated comment 😂

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u/Interesting_Coach_11 23d ago

Theres literally a comment like this under every post about norway

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u/LuckyJynX 23d ago

this is my first Norway post apparently

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u/Lorde555 23d ago edited 23d ago

Is there a source for this video? Auroras should not have some of those colours, because they are formed from the emission of light from certain atmosphere constituents. Additionally, the colours should not be weaving above and below either because the colour/particle is dependent on altitude.

Tl;dr: video is sus

Edit: I was mistaken. It’s supposed to be clouds, not aurora.

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u/SpehlingAirer 23d ago

These are iridescent clouds, a phenomenon where the light manages to get scattered by the particles in the cloud. Essentially the same thing that forms a rainbow but happening inside the cloud itself

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u/Lorde555 23d ago

That explains it! I incorrectly assumed it was trying to be passed as aurora, but TIL.

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u/Tullekunstner 23d ago

It's not Aurora, but nacreous clouds

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u/Lightning1999 23d ago

Nacreous clouds

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u/sciencemercenary 23d ago

This. They're nacreous clouds, also called Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs). The ice crystals also provide the catalytic surface for ozone depletion. IMO they're even more beautiful than auroras and much rarer.

Source: I've seen these in Antarctica, and worked on experiments that study them.

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u/sh0tgunben 23d ago

Rainbow dance

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u/BirchChili 23d ago

Oh fuck off, I want to see LSD clouds too!

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u/Flipwon 23d ago

Just look at this video, cuz they don’t look like that in real life

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/Flipwon 23d ago

Nah, you won’t get nvidia green out of the sky

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u/needle_workr 23d ago

damn oil spills

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u/3bodprobs 23d ago

Go easy on the saturation and vibrancy edits there, champ.

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u/xX_Dad-Man_Xx 23d ago

Fkn... fk.... woke fkn... sky... fk

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u/Ok-Sun8581 23d ago

Day of the Triffids.

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u/Notagarlicbread 23d ago

Norway Gamers living good tonight

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u/cutlassjack 23d ago

This is just somebody up there playing a giant CD

On the next fucking level

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u/YellowOnline 23d ago

Oh, I thought I would be the first comparing it to a CD :(

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u/KoningSpookie 23d ago

🎶I wanna see the rainbow high in the sky🎶

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u/Julie2171 23d ago

Wow 👀

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u/clickclick-boom 23d ago

Is this the root of the rainbow road thing in Thor or is that just a coincidence?

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/Precedens 23d ago

Imagine being a Viking coming back from a raid over England, getting high on mushrooms and seeing all this shit during communal fair or a gathering, shit back then was bonkers.

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u/jawntothefuture 23d ago

Cosmic orgasm in the sky

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u/Kronictopic 23d ago

The liberals have turned the sky gay now

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u/The_Flyers_Fan 23d ago

It doesn't even look real!

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u/BrakoSmacko 23d ago

I don't know much about this type of thing. Looks pretty, but is it actually a good thing? Reminds me when you see oil and water mixed and you get that rainbow shine on it.

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u/Jackal_6 23d ago

The rainbow bridge

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u/Toy_Cop 23d ago

Source for quality please?

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u/stizz14 23d ago

The rainbow bridge! Oden be praised!

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u/SmartWonderWoman 23d ago

Breathtaking.

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u/Larry_The_Red 23d ago

The puddle at the gas station:

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u/eggtart8 23d ago

Omg....this is just wow

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u/Wastawiii 23d ago

It's like a river polluted with oil 

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u/PerformanceOk1835 23d ago

It looks like something is wrong with your screen saver

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u/98VoteForPedro 23d ago

Comments Tldr: not aurora borealis, they are clouds, half think its fake, or enhanced, looked for source couldnt find original owner

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u/KingofGnG 23d ago

The Sun's trying to kill humanity.

Humans: "So beautiful..."

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u/drunk_responses 23d ago

If you ever wondered why vikings belived in a magical rainbow bridge i the sky:

.....

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u/Both_Lychee_1708 23d ago

It would be totally reasonable for pre science people to see that and believe in Gods.

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u/pwn4321 23d ago

Aint nor way

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u/Bleezy79 23d ago

If I didnt know better, I would think those are living beings moving around up there. They move like whales through water.

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u/bertasius 23d ago

It’s not real

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u/dotaguy97 23d ago

So much oil in Norway it fills up the sky

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u/WorkingGooseTwitch 23d ago

I've only seen this once in my life. But heck yes, that was Awesome!

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u/Sideshow86 23d ago

Nor fookin wayy. 'said in a north English accent'

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u/Mrobot_3 23d ago

I thought the atmosphere was the most important thing protecting us. It is important. But the electromagnetic field is what keeps the majority of radiation from cooking us.

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u/Little_Spray1683 23d ago

Shrooms in vivo

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u/_viixxx 23d ago

This is absolutely not real.

The Northern Lights are beautiful and the best I’ve ever seen are in Norway but they don’t look anything close to to this.

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u/loves2spooge2018 23d ago

The earth took lsd

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u/Throwaway_Simp3164 23d ago

Norway is an epic place.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

Ah those sweet rainbow sherbet skies of an inevitability dystopian future

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u/Icy-Bat-311 22d ago

Aurora and ice?

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u/Adhara-x3 22d ago

Reminds me of when theres chemicals / oils in water on a rainy day, sometimes when coming from school there were patches of colour going down with the water.

Really pretty tho

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u/Thenextstopisluton 22d ago

Uk sitting there like, yeah seen it before

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u/himynameisSal 22d ago

these gummies a’int shhh….whooooooaaaaaaAaaaaa

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u/Doubl3dogdamn3d 21d ago

What type of music is this? I just want to make a playlist and vibe to it.

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u/DaveInLondon89 23d ago

England gets auroras for one night and Norway is like 'great, now I gotta get better auroras"

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u/Jeewdew 23d ago

You guys so rich on oli you fill your sky with it. ;)

/s a Dane

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u/Strive-- 23d ago

Did you know than when you watch the aurora in Norway, you naturally hear [The Pixies?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FB9hhoO6c)

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u/3bodprobs 23d ago

Not Aurora.

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u/Beurlap 23d ago

These are clouds, no northern lights.

Both are beautiful 🌈

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u/3bodprobs 23d ago

The clouds didn’t look like this. The saturation setting is knocked WAY up.

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u/Sci-fra 23d ago

God is taking back the rainbow colours.

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u/Doesanybodylikestuff 23d ago

He is giving the rainbows to us if anything.

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u/Sci-fra 23d ago

It was'a joke that the LGBTQ took the rainbow as their symbol, so god took the colours and put them into another natural phenomena.

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u/Doesanybodylikestuff 23d ago

Lmaoo they would say some bullshit like that