Hi Doug,
Taking shots at night is quite difficult. On my home computer it's bright enough to see the details, but on my office computer I cannot see the colors so precisely. Night shots are for me the most difficult shots to take. In general, I tend to avoid them, because even after a lot of reseach, I can almost never get any interesting angle or "clear" vision...
In the shots above I have spotted some issues. The most obvious one in on the virtual cockpit shot. The shot itself is well composed, but that plane had a transparency issue which masks the prop blur, and that's a little bit disturbing for the quality of the shot.
Still, the idea for the shot is good, you just have to choose the plane more carefully, depending on how its virtual cockpit looks like.
For the first shot, I don't have much to say. I like how you put the plane aside to show more of the sky and stars. Such a shot would also look very good at dawn or dusk, with a more colorful sky and water reflections.
Finally... I don't see any northern lights in your shots. Northern lights are supposed to be green or something like that. I never saw them in the sim, but I've never been looking for them either, to be honnest
