As mentioned in part three of this series, the Moon phases will affect your aurora experience. This is also true for the photos. To get the best mix of landscape and auroras a quarter to half of the moon should be visible. This will give enough light to capture the landscape and still be dark enough to preserve a lot of details and colors of auroras. Both, Full Moon and New Moon have their own advantages: Full Moon = great light in landscape, less details and colors of auroras. New Moon = poor light in the landscape, best details in the starry sky.