4. Take photos with a phone camera: NLCs are bright enough
You don’t need an expensive or complicated camera to photograph NLCs; many phones now have cameras that are more than good enough to take lovely photographs of bright displays. Hold your phone as steady as possible, make sure that you include some foreground objects in your pictures for scale, and try your phone camera’s night mode setting if it has one. If you can, frame your photos so the NLCs are reflected in a river or a lake, or have trees or buildings silhouetted against them. If a display is too big to fit on one single photo, try your camera’s panorama mode.