This night was very close to the full moon. Personally, I really like to have some moonlight to brighten up the foreground of aurora pictures. Interestingly, there was little indication of activity on the Leirvogur magnetometer this evening, so I was quite surprised to find a decent a

This was a fantastic evening of aurora with some very intense short periods where the pink lower fringe was very visible to my naked eye and the curtains of rayed bands danced very rapidly across the sky. I was fortunate to be lucky with my timings this evening too, as I had literally

An evening of mostly moderate activity with a few shorter bright bursts. There was a lot of cloud around including low level clouds and also a fine layer of higher cloud which obscured a lot of the detail of what auroral activity was occurring. Near the start of my watch there were so

It was difficult to be sure what was happening in the sky this evening due to lots of cloud, but after seeing nothing for most of the night then the aurora appeared through the clouds at around 22:30 UTC (19th). We saw much stronger activity appearing at 22:50 UTC and stopped to take

This night was a battle with both cloud and a full moon, which was a shame given the strong geomagnetic storm in progress. We drove north from Reykjavik because it was simply too cloudy in the south-west. Fortunately, by Hvalfjörður there were some clear periods in the sky, although t

A weak aurora this evening, which I first observed from the presence of some isolated rays hanging in the sky to the north above the mountain at 22:51. The sky was still influenced by twilight at this time, and a vivid blue in the photograph (Image 1). Some paler streaks of aurora wer

There was a weak striated band of aurora in the east when I arrived at site just before midnight, which stayed in the sky without much change for the first period. This was a pale white-green to the eye. After 00:36 it started to intensify and became a more obvious green colour to the

The aurora was already showing strongly when I arrived at site just after midnight. Image 1 below was taken at 00:21 UTC and looking in a south/south-east direction, showing a band of aurora with rays (purple ray tops visible on camera but only green could be seen to the eye). This wa

At this time of year the amount of Astronomical Twilight is increasing rapidly, and early on the 19th October it was present from 00:23 – 02:40 UTC. The first image below was taken at 00:54 UTC looking north-east. The aurora was covering a lot of sky this morning, but was faint

My first aurora of the 2017/18 season occurred in the early hours of 17 August 2017. At this time of year there is very limited night-time in Iceland as it is still technically summer. While there was no true darkness on this night, it was the second day of the return of Astronomical