The magnetometers did not show much activity tonight, but nevertheless I was able to see aurora for the entire time that I was out from 23:54 to 01:35 UTC. It was mostly difficult to see with the naked eye due to the ongoing combined challenges of twilight and full moon, but the camer
There was some very strong geomagnetic storming from the 25th to the 27th August, but sadly my location in south-west Iceland was completely overcast with cloud for the entire period. The cloud finally parted on the evening of the 28th, and I was able to go out and see some weak auror
This was the third night of aurora in succession. The evening was rather windy, and as a result the trees and flowers in the images appear a little bit blurred due to their movement. Although I could not detect it by eye (the sky was still very bright to the north in the twilight), th
There was a weak aurora visible as soon as it became dark enough this evening, but it was difficult to see through the twilight. At 00:31 a tall ray was briefly visible over the mountain in the north-east (Image 1), with a weaker band of green visible higher in the sky through the clo
The 2018/19 aurora season began for me on the evening of the 15th August, with a very bright aurora to the eye when I left home at 23:44 UTC. As the sky was still very light in the twilight then I hadn’t expected to see any aurora until later in the night, and this was a pleasan