Post date: Feb 25, 2014 11:40:52 AM
A nature photographer captures the northern lights shining bright over Norway's Trondheimsfjord.
TRONDHEIM, NORWAY (FEBRUARY 22, 2014) ( WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/MINEMAGISKEOYEBLIKK) - The northern lights shone brightly over Norway's third city of Trondheim on Saturday (February 22).
Nature photographer Oyvind Schei captured the spectacle in a timelapse movie he subsequently posted to Facebook.
Schei said he is delighted to show the northern lights can be seen as far south in Norway asTrondheim.Tourist board statistics indicate the northern lights (also known as the aurora borealis) has led to a large growth in tourism in Norway in recent years.
From November 2012 to March 2013 almost 190,000 tourists flocked to northern Norway to witness the lights.
Tourist website Visit Norway's numbers on hotel accommodation also indicate the number of visitors from abroad has trebled since the 2005/06 season.
Most tourists tend to visit northern Norway, which is closer to the North Pole where the aurora borealis can be particularly bright.
The northern lights occur when large quantities of particles from solar explosions and flares hit the Earth's magnetic field.
These particles migrate towards the magnetic fields of the North Pole and interact with the upper layers of the atmosphere, creating a spectacular green light show about 100 km up in the sky.