The ol’ shipboard internet is a little more finicky than I had hoped. It pretty much only lets me rsync when I’m using the work VPN and the flickr uploads usually fail pretty badly.
Tonight we had our first Aurora lecture and it was actually pretty informative. Dinner was good and we sat with a retired couple from Queensland, Australia and talked about Obamacare. :|
After dinner we went up on the top deck and our astronomer pointed out most of the features of the night sky that would be relevant to us and I learned that taking a long exposure picture from the top deck of a boat is difficult unless you like modern art. I got one good star picture out of nine and that was only 5″ / f2.8 / ISO3200.
I also learned that I need more layers and that the wind makes the cold much worse. A fifth top layer, third bottom layer, wool neck gaiter and glove liners helped but we’re in port for an hour now so that’s not really an apples to apples comparison.
Tomorrow is an early day. Up at 6:00, breakfast at 7:00 and then our tour of the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim at 8:00. But after that we get free time in Trondheim and lunch and then I can probably catch a nap after our 2:00pm lecture.
So far, so fun.