When, Where & How to See the Aurora Borealis. Photos don't do the northern lights justice. To fully appreciate the glory and grandeur of this celestial display, which is also known as the aurora borealis, you have to settle beneath the ever- changing lights and watch them curve and curl, slither and flicker. I was camping, just lying out in a field in a sleeping bag on a late September night and looking up at the stars," said Terry Onsager, a physicist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. Amazing Auroras: Stunning Northern Lights Photos]Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE. Contributor. "All of a sudden, the most spectacular lights and swirls and rays just filled the sky, dancing and darting here and there," Onsager told Space. It was just unbelievable.".

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Onsager had his aurora experience in northern Norway — one of the best places in the world to see the northern lights. You could follow in his footsteps, or blaze your own trail somewhere along the "auroral zone" that encircles Earth's northern reaches. But you need to know when and where to go. For example, the summer of 2. Read on to find out when and where to see the northern lights, and what powers this dazzling display. If you're planning an aurora- viewing trip, make sure not to schedule it in the middle of summer.

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You need darkness to see the northern lights, and places in the auroral zone have precious little of it during the summer months. You also want clear skies. Winter and springtime are generally less cloudy than autumn in and around the northern auroral zone, so a trip between December and April makes sense, said Charles Deehr, a professor emeritus and aurora forecaster at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute.

Ideally, time your trip to coincide with the new moon, and make sure to get away from city lights when it's time to look up, he added. Dress warmly, plan to watch the sky between 1. Deehr wrote in the Geophysical Institute's guide to aurora viewing, which has lots of great information. Active periods are typically about 3. The aurora is a sporadic phenomenon, occurring randomly for short periods or perhaps not at all.".

You can get an idea of how active the northern lights are likely to be in your area by keeping tabs on a short- term aurora forecast, such as the one provided by the Geophysical Institute here: http: //www. Aurora. Forecast. Poker Night Movie Watch Online. And you can have an aurora experience without even leaving your house if you so choose.

The Canadian Space Agency offers a live feed of the skies above Yellowknife, in Canada's Northwest Territories: http: //www. Where to go in Europe.

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So where should you go? If you live in Europe, the easiest thing to do is head to the far northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland. In general, Scandinavia is set up," Deehr told Space. They're in good shape for this.".

Northern Norway, especially the area around Tromso, is a particularly popular destination, he added. Visit Tromso's 2.

Northern Lights Info]. There are a lot of tours, and a lot of English- speaking people who are willing to take you out," Deehr said, adding that the scenery in the region is "fantastic.". Or you could check out a number of other locations, such as northern Sweden's Abisko National Park. Abisko has developed a reputation for being the No. Earth that is located within the aurora zone," photographer Chad Blakley told Space. The company Blakley co- founded, Lights Over Lapland, has been offering aurora tours in Abisko for more than five years.) [Lights Over Lapland's 2. Abisko Aurora Tours].

Iceland is also a good choice, Deehr said, as long as you make sure to set aside enough time to compensate for cloudy skies. The island nation's weather can be uncooperative.) [Iceland 2. Northern Lights Tours]. Russia, by contrast, "is pretty much out," Deehr said. While a decent swathe of the auroral zone lies in northern Russia, such areas are relatively hard to get to and lack the tourism infrastructure most travelers are after, he explained. Where to go in North America. There are also plenty of options for good aurora viewing in North America.

But you should probably steer clear of far eastern Canada, which tends to be quite cloudy, Deehr said. Between James Bay and the west coast of Alaska — anywhere along that auroral zone is a good place to be," he said. James Bay is the far southern portion of Canada's huge Hudson Bay.) [Northern Tales Yukon 2.

Aurora Tours]. For example, he said, a northern lights trip could center on Yellowknife or Whitehorse, in the Canadian Yukon. Or a traveler could take a train across the auroral zone to the town of Churchill, on the western shore of Hudson Bay — an area famous for its polar bear population.

It's great, adventurous country," Deehr said of the Canadian auroral region. In Alaska, anywhere from Fairbanks north offers good viewing.

In Fairbanks itself, residents see the northern lights on about eight of every 1. Deehr said. [Alaska Tours' 2.

Aurora Tours]. Otherworldly fireworks. The northern lights result when charged particles streaming from the sun collide with molecules high up in Earth's atmosphere, exciting these molecules and causing them to glow.

It's like the fluorescent lights in our offices — they've got current running through them that excites the atoms, and the atoms glow," Onsager said. The auroras occur at high latitudes, unless a strong solar storm expands their reach. Credit: University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute / Charles Deehr.

The different colors of the northern lights come from different molecules: Oxygen emits yellow, green and red light, while nitrogen is responsible for blue and purplish- red hues. Earth's magnetic field lines channel these solar particles toward the planet's north and south magnetic poles, which explains why auroras — the aurora borealis and its southern counterpart, the aurora australis — are high- latitude phenomena.

Indeed, the aurora borealis is visible most nights, weather permitting, within a band several hundred miles wide that's centered at about 6. Arctic Circle. This "standard" aurora is generated by the solar wind — the particles streaming constantly from the sun. But solar storms known as coronal mass ejections (CME) can ramp up the northern lights considerably and make them visible over much wider areas. Last year, for example, a CME allowed skywatchers as far south as Illinois and Ohio to get a glimpse.

However, if you're planning an aurora- viewing trip weeks or months in advance, you can't count on any help from a solar storm and should therefore head to a destination somewhere near the northern ring. The Sun's Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History]. The southern auroral ring lies above Antarctica and is very difficult for skywatchers, or anyone else, to get to.

That's why this article focuses on the northern lights — for reasons of practicality, not antipodean antipathy. Southern Hemisphere dwellers take heart: The aurora australis can sometimes be viewed from New Zealand and Tasmania.)Editor's note: If you capture an amazing photo of the northern lights and would like to share it with Space. Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space. This story, originally posted in April 2.

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Providing aurora forecasts, news and help on seeing the northern lights wherever you are in the world. We have helped many thousands of people see northern lights for the first time, so it was a really natural transition from helping people all around the world see northern lights, to helping people come to us to see northern lights. So now you can come and stay with us and go out aurora chasing PERSONALLY with us in the evenings. We have made some very special northern lights holidays indeed.

At the extreme northern latitudes of 6. North, we go chasing the northern lights around officially the most northern towns in the EU. We also go into Norway and occasionally even to the Barent's Sea (Asgard and Utgard tours) where you simply cannot go any further north in continental Europe. Very few (if any) dedicated Northern Lights companies are this far north in Europe.

Obviously because we are so far north, the chances of seeing the northern lights are considerably higher than most other areas of Lapland. As we have been running our popular northern lights forecast website for some time, and due to our knowledge of the science behind auroras, we have been able to put together northern lights holidays that are a little bit special. We have hand picked EVERYTHING about our holidays from an aurora chasers perspective. From the locations, to the cottages, to the activities and everything in between. In fact, out of the most northern 4 towns in Finland we chase aurora around all 4 of them!! From the moment you step off the plane, we want to maximise your chances of seeing the northern lights.

So you are welcome to come and stay in one of our beautiful cottages in any of our 3 different tour locations (referred to as our Asgard, Valhalla and Utgard tours respectively). The holidays run for 4 nights/5 days Monday to Friday or you can choose our 3 nights/4 day holiday which run Friday to Monday. Or you could combine both for the ultimate 7 night aurora holiday! There are many things that makes us different (and in our opinion better) than other northern lights holidays, but here is just a couple of them. You get your own cottage (with sauna), with a separate fireplace where you can watch the northern lights at your leisure any time you like. As mentioned above, we were THE company who invented the multi- day aurora chasing cottage holiday.

We believe most hotels aren't suitable for aurora chasers. You need to be able to run out in a moments notice, perhaps many times a night. It's a real pain getting dressed and undressed running in and out of a hotel. In our cottages, you can keep your boots and coat next to the door and you can run outside in under 3. This is a huge advantage.

We go out chasing the northern lights in our van each evening. We have all the very latest science data streaming into the van, including live solar wind data amongst other things. We know exactly when and where northern lights are appearing anywhere in Lapland.

There is no mystery or guesswork with us, we have data from NASA and other space weather labs with all the information we need to see what's happening in near- Earth space. We also go the extra mile, literally. In fact we go an extra 1. What that means is if it is cloudy or the northern lights activity appears weak, we will drive an hour or two to a more favourable viewing location. Standing in the same spot waiting for the northern lights to appear does work sometimes, especially at this latitude, but if the weather is against us, we will usually hit the road and try to find a break in the clouds.

Again, this makes a huge difference and boosts your chances of seeing auroras greatly. So if you like the sound of our northern lights tours and would like to come here chasing the lights with us, you are very welcome. Our tours are insanely popular and sell out very fast, so I cannot stress enough that you must try and book it as early as you possibly can. Just 1. 00 euros secures your place. I hope to see you under the northern lights soon.

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