The data didn’t indicate that we should expect much aurora this evening, but in fact we unexpectedly had quite a nice show before midnight. At 22:15 I noticed a band of aurora forming quite high in the sky when I looked outside on one of my evening checks, and by the time we got

After last night’s fantastic aurora then I didn’t dare to hope for a repeat this evening. We certainly did not get a repeat in the end, but it was still a good aurora by normal standards with some active dancing rays and colours by eye as well as plenty of bands across the

I was hoping for some good aurora this evening due to the enhanced solar wind from a coronal hole on the sun. However, I never could have imagined how awesome it would turn out to be! Easily the best display of the season so far, and could easily end up as one of the best displays of

I wasn’t expecting too much aurora this evening, but after one of my night sky checks then there was a hole in the clouds and an unmistakable glow! Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it to a scenic spot, so took a few record shots over some lorries and containers. The dis

After two weeks away then I was happy to observe some aurora this evening! I watched a great display from the plane on my flight pretty much all the way to Iceland from Scotland, but after landing in Iceland it was the usual battle with clouds! We stopped briefly between Keflavik and

It was a bit of a battle with cloud this evening at my location, but the following images captured between 23:00 and 23:30 show what I managed to see in between the clouds. By 23:30 it had clouded over almost completely, just revealing tiny areas of green aurora glow in the gaps. Imag

There was some fairly bright aurora along the northern horizon this evening. However, it was heavy cloud and rain in my location north of Reykjavik, and I didn’t expect to see any clear sky. I was lucky though – I looked outside at 23:00 and there was a patch of clear sky