What are the constelations you can see with the naked eye from
Lofoten, Norway in the winter time (not including the northern
lights)?

Hello jsturz and thank you for the question.

What you need is "Heavens-Above" http://www.heavens-above.com/ What
this website does is calculate what the night sky looks like depending
on where you are, and then shows you a digram of what it looks like. 
As I donīt know where exactly you are in Norway I have set the page up
as if you were looking into the night sky from Oslo.

When you click on this link: 
http://www.heavens-above.com/main.asp?lat=59.917&lng=10.750&alt=19&loc=Oslo&TZ=CET

you will see a menu including the following titles:
Configuration 
Satellites 
Starshine 3 
Astronomy 
Miscellaneous  

If you click on "Whole sky chart" you will see the night sky as you
would from Oslo in 'real time'
http://www.heavens-above.com/skychart.asp?lat=59.917&lng=10.750&alt=19&loc=Oslo&TZ=CET&SL=1&SN=1&BW=0&SZ=600

At the time of posting this you (and weather permitting) you should be
able to see the following constellations:

Gemini
Taurus
Orion
Aries
Pegasus
Ursa Major
Ursa Minor
Pisces

and many other 'minor' constellations.


The website is very useful and I have it as a permanent fixture in "my
favorites"

As I said, the links I have provided for you are already
'pre-programmed' for Oslo, Norway, but editing your location is quite
simple simply go to this page
http://www.heavens-above.com/countries.asp and edit your location.

Itīs a fantastic website! 

'Clear Skies'

Best regards

THX1138



Search strategy:
Checked in "my favorites"
and:
"astronomy" norway
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_qdr=all&q=%22astronomy%22+norway&btnG=Google+Search

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Clarification of Answer by thx1138-ga on 31 Oct 2002 14:54 PST

Just to clarify,

Lofoten is not in the "Heavens above" database but if you type in the
next largest town/city here
http://www.heavens-above.com/selecttown.asp?CountryID=NO&lat=0&lng=0&alt=0&loc=Unspecified&TZ=CET
you should get more accurate information.......

'Clear Skies'

THX1138