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