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