This evening there was another sizeable geomagnetic storm from the same coronal hole that has produced auroras for the last few nights. However, the main activity peaked in Iceland while it was still daylight, and had mostly moved southwards of Iceland by the time it became dark. I sa

There was a big blast of aurora this evening – I saw a bright band forming in the sky at 20:45 UTC, and over the next 15 min it developed into a bright dancing aurora directly overhead with some pinks to the eye. Unfortunately I was not quite ready with the camera, but I had lov

This evening was somewhat cloudy, but nevertheless I could see a low arc of aurora across the northern sky shining through the cloud gaps. It was visible on camera from 20:19 UTC, and also as a glow to the naked eye from 20:58. I watched until 21:31 when the cloud thickened at my loca

A strong geomagnetic storm occurred this evening, due to enhanced solar winds from a coronal hole. Some activity kicked off in Iceland even before it was fully dark, and that turned out to be the strongest display of the night (at least for the period I watched, until midnight) with d

After a few nights of cloud and rain in south-west Iceland it was nice to get a lovely clear night this evening and an unexpectedly nice show of aurora. I noticed a faint (to the naked eye) arc forming in the north sky at 21:35 UTC, and this arc developed over time into a vivid green

The data didn’t indicate that we should expect much aurora this evening, but in fact we unexpectedly had quite a nice show before midnight. At 22:15 I noticed a band of aurora forming quite high in the sky when I looked outside on one of my evening checks, and by the time we got

After last night’s fantastic aurora then I didn’t dare to hope for a repeat this evening. We certainly did not get a repeat in the end, but it was still a good aurora by normal standards with some active dancing rays and colours by eye as well as plenty of bands across the

I was hoping for some good aurora this evening due to the enhanced solar wind from a coronal hole on the sun. However, I never could have imagined how awesome it would turn out to be! Easily the best display of the season so far, and could easily end up as one of the best displays of

I wasn’t expecting too much aurora this evening, but after one of my night sky checks then there was a hole in the clouds and an unmistakable glow! Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it to a scenic spot, so took a few record shots over some lorries and containers. The dis

After two weeks away then I was happy to observe some aurora this evening! I watched a great display from the plane on my flight pretty much all the way to Iceland from Scotland, but after landing in Iceland it was the usual battle with clouds! We stopped briefly between Keflavik and