Photographer Tommy Eliassen captures meteor, Milky Way and Northern Lights in one shot

Amateur photographer Tommy Eliassen hit the photography jackpot with a single shot.

Taken in Ifjord, Finnmark, Norway, his gorgeous photo captured a meteor, the Milky Way and the Northern Lights simultaneously.

"I quickly went and took some pictures in a regular spot of mine, and thought to myself that I had got some good aurora shots and also some separate good milky way shots. But just as the clouds started to come in over the mountains I noticed this faint aurora lining up perfectly beside the milky way. Normally the lights from the aurora is much, much stronger than the lights from the stars, so getting the right exposure on both is difficult. But it was ideal conditions — almost once in a lifetime," the 33-year-old photographer told Cater News.

Eliassen, who specializes in night, landscape and time-lapse photography, took the photo — he captured seven similarly stunning photos before the clouds rolled in — on September 25th, at the beginning of the new Aurora season.

"Ifjord is also a perfect location for this kind of photography because only 10 people live there and it is 130km (80 miles) from the nearest town, so light pollution isn't a problem," he said.