I somehow managed to time things entirely wrong this evening for catching the best of the aurora. I went out too late and the aurora was already active low in the north while I was driving to my site. I caught the tail end of this activity on camera at 21:27 (Image 1) but it had certa

This evening was a real battle with the cloud! My first photographs taken just after 22:20 UTC illustrate this perfectly, with the entire sky appearing green through the tiny gaps in the cloud to the north (Image 1). By 22:28 I was able to see some aurora directly overhead of my locat

There was a nice aurora this evening, but it was located to the north and very low in the sky. My view of the furthest activity was blocked by mountains to my north, but I saw a nice arc from 22:35 UTC until I went home at midnight. The activity was generally faint, appearing a whitis

Unfortunately I was still walking to my viewing location at 22:30 UTC when the aurora sparked into life this evening, and was nowhere suitable to take photographs due to the strong surrounding light pollution. I could still appreciate it with my eyes though, and there were some fast-m

I set out early this evening as an initial glance out of the door at 20:15 UTC showed some aurora already visible to the naked eye in the north. Although I did not realise it at the time, this evening would turn out to include one of the most epic shows of aurora that I have witnessed

Some nights one just gets clues that the aurora is bright and active, based on glimpses through the cloud. This image shows the vertical blue light from the Imagine Peace Tower disappearing into an enormous cloud bank over Reykjavik, with some patches of green aurora visible to the ri

There was a nice aurora showing when I went out to my local area, with a green rayed arc vivid to the eye in the north at around 45 degrees. On the camera, some purple tops were visible on the rays (Image 1). Over the next 30 minutes, the arc moved steadily southwards (i.e. grew highe

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