Aurora activity and clear skies The next couple of days look really promising when it comes to aurora hunting! Yet another solar storm is coming, raising activity levels up to 6 / 9 tonight, Wednesday night and tomorrow night levels are predicted at 4-5. As I had mentioned before, it is sometimes the couple of [...]

Quiet after the storm  Things seem to have calmed down after the geomagnetic storms that have been blazing in the upper layers of the atmosphere last couple of days. Aurora activity tonigh, Monday September 11th, is low and clouds seem to be building up late tonight. So chances of seeing the aurora tonight are rather [...]

The aftermath After some incredible geomagnetic activity the last couple of days things are getting calm again. Geomagnetic activity levels went up to 9 on the Kp-index and it does not get higher than that. We had some good aurora display in the south last night. It is my experience that the couple of days [...]

Late arrival of the CME, September 6th The aurora activity last night was later than forecasted. The solar storm began around 1am and I guess that only the most deidcated aurora hunters were still out by that time. If you had any sightings of the storm, you can head over to the IAC facebook page [...]

Calm Tuesday night Aurora activity forecasts for tonight, Tuesday September 5th are not very favorable. Activity levels around 2 and overcast sky in most areas, except around the South East coast, Höfn and thereabout, and in parts of the North-East coast, Húsavík area and thereabout.  Wednesday night CME According to solar observations there was a [...]

Well it looks like we will be having quite a cloudy weekend after the geomagnetic storm that has been blazing the last coup,le of days. I have seen some amazing photos from the storm, but I have not been out myself to shoot. Well, I will just wait until the next good chance. That is [...]

Incoming solar storm August 30th Great news! According to aurora forecasts and observations in space, there is a big solar storm on the way and will hit Earth’s magnetic field tonight, August 30th. That means that chances of aurora sightings are very high where the sky is clear. Tonight we can expect clear skies on [...]

Aurora forecasts in Iceland are back!  The season is on! We have actually already had a few nights of aurora here, even though the nights are just getting long enough to see them. It has been a pleasure seeing all the people who have posted great shots of the aurora activity.  The web is also [...]

The last couple of days have been amazing. With clear and cold weather we have had great visibilty to some of the most powerful aurora displays this winter. Unfortunatly I have not been out with my camera, but the display over my home has been breathtaking at times. This is all due to a very [...]