There was some moderate activity to around 35 degree in the north at 22:00 UTC when I checked outside, but by the time I reached my viewing location for the evening then the activity was very low on the horizon and much weaker. There was also a full moon, which combined with the snowf

This was an unexpectedly great night of aurora-watching – unexpected because we were not really expecting a huge amount of activity this evening, but an increased solar wind, negative Bz and favourable interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) combined to give a great show. And for on

There was a nice arc in the northern sky this evening, visible from my location from at least 22:21 UTC. The bulk of the activity was far north of Iceland and consequently low on the horizon, and the beautiful mountains blocked my view of the best of it. A lovely still night to be out

Early in the morning on 19th January the aurora was still visible in the sky to at least 08:28 UTC, thanks to the long hours of darkness in Iceland at this time of year. In the evening, we saw aurora at 20:35 UTC and stayed out until 21:55, although the aurora was still ongoing when w

A clear arc of aurora could be seen low in the northern sky this evening, which I first noticed at 21:55 UTC and which was still going strong at midnight when I ended my observations. This aurora was predominantly of moderate activity, but there were brief spells of stronger activity

There was some moderate aurora activity this evening, with a weak arc in the northern sky from soon after dark. I stayed out until just after midnight, but unfortunately had a battle with the clouds for the latter part of the evening. Some lovely tall rays were visible in one cloud ga

I saw aurora from 19:30 UTC this evening. For the early part of the evening it was present as a low altitude weak to moderate intensity rayed band in the north (Images 1 to 3), with the strongest activity at 15 to 20 degrees height and weaker rays (including purple ray tops on camera)