Aurora Borealis is the Northern Lights.

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There are at least eight artists/groups known by this name:

1) Aurora Borealis is one of those death/black metal hybrids, with Vento's vocals slanting toward black and the riffing and drumming siding a bit toward death metal. There's an above-average degree of technicality here, as Vento is a solid guitarist and an adventuresome songwriter. The songs mix both technicality and brutality quite well -- this is a fine band well worth investigation.
Source: www.bnrmetal.com

2) Aurora Borealis is one of the aliases of Shazz (Didier Delesalle), under which he has published mostly trance techno on French label F-Communications.

3) Aurora Borealis was an unsigned band based in Wiltshire, UK in the early 2000s. There were two members who played acoustic guitar and sung in harmony.

4) Aurora Borealis was a Finnish metal band which was active in the 1990's.

5) The Aurora Borealis is a psychedelic project in Portland that has yet to release an album.

6) Black Metal from Germany, released "Rough Sea" in 1997.

7) Ambient/Post-Rock band from Belgium, created in 2007 by Déhà.
http://musicalexcrements.bandcamp.com/

8) A young all-female band which arose at the Maastricht Music Conservatory in the Netherlands. Their love for polyphony and indie pop / rock brought Florence, Ellen and Lea together. Floating synthpads, tight drums, deep bass and hypnotic guitar riffs form the sound of Aurora Borealis. All of this combined with polyphonic melodic vocals. The girls of Aurora Borealis are inspired by bands like Alt-J, Daughter and London Grammar.
https://www.facebook.com/AuroraBorealisTrio/

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Aurora Borealis Lyrics

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I am always
I am forever

Time I know not, death is not brought
Judger of all, my wrath shall fall

I am shapeless
I am deathless

Known by many names, never feel pain
Infinitely, existing

Where is the light ,where is my god
Shoe me a light, show me my god

Searching for the ultimate reality
Looking for the father the deity
Knowing I am the giver of all life
Asking where is the one that gave me mine

Searching for the ultimate reality
Looking for the father the deity
Knowing I am the giver of all life
Asking where is the one that gave me mine

I am boundless
I am soulless

No end I shall see, all praise go to thee
For all eternity, I shall never see

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Overall Meaning

in this song refers to the quest for ultimate reality, for the deity or the father who gave all life. The lyrics describe a being who is immortal and shapeless, known by many names, and has infinite existence. The being acknowledges that it is the giver of all life but questions the whereabouts of the one who gave it life.

The use of the phrase "I am always, I am forever" denotes the concept of eternity and the idea that this being is beyond time and death. It identifies itself as the judger of all and promises that its wrath will fall. The line "Where is the light, where is my god, show me a light, show me my god" expresses a sense of desperation and longing, highlighting the desire to connect with something higher.

The repeated chorus reinforces this sense of quest and pursuit for the ultimate reality. The song speaks to a larger philosophical concept of human curiosity about where we come from and what our purpose is and the search for meaning in life.

Line by Line Meaning

I am always
I exist in perpetuity

I am forever
My existence has no end

Time I know not, death is not brought
I transcend time, death has no power over me

Judger of all, my wrath shall fall
I possess the power to judge and enact punishment

I am shapeless
I have no physical form

I am deathless
I cannot be destroyed by death

Known by many names, never feel pain
I am referred to differently across cultures, and do not experience physical pain

Infinitely, existing
My existence is infinite

Where is the light ,where is my god
I am searching for a higher power and guidance

Show me a light, show me my god
I am requesting a tangible form of guidance and direction

Searching for the ultimate reality
I am seeking the ultimate truth

Looking for the father the deity
I am searching for a higher power, a divine father figure

Knowing I am the giver of all life
I acknowledge my role as the provider of life

Asking where is the one that gave me mine
I am questioning the source of my own existence

I am boundless
I have no limits

I am soulless
I do not have a human soul

No end I shall see, all praise go to thee
I will exist indefinitely, and all glory belongs to a higher power

For all eternity, I shall never see
My existence will continue for eternity without an end in sight

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OOups kitty

4y↑2.4K

When I flew from Canada back to Europe I flew right through the Northen Lights. We were flighing at night. I was almost asleep but woke up because I saw some green lights. To my surprise it were the real Northern Lights. Suddenly all the passengers were awake & enjoyed this 'show'. I went for 6months to Canada (close to the border of Alaska) but never actually saw the Northern Lights. This was the best flight ever. 🙀😻 🌌

Sidharth Sharma

4y↑60

You are so lucky. I'm crying 😭♥️

Melody Sample Library

4y↑22

So lucky !

fäyè

4y↑14

omg SO LUCKYYYYYYY

fäyè

4y↑39

i bet the pilots were crying

English Hub

4y↑5

Luck u

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Jeremy Levy

3y↑364

I can confirm all of this as well. I went to Iceland about a year ago with the sole purpose of seeing the Northern Lights and didn't know what to expect. When the display is weak, it is underwhelming and you're straining to distinguish between whether it's a cloud or the Aurora Borealis. However, as he describes, when it's a strong display and you get lucky, there's no mistaking it. It's truly breathtaking and bright, with the Aurora quite literally dancing above you. 10/10 highly recommend...and if you're reading this with plans to go on a similar adventure, please dress super warm. You're going to be out in the arctic night for hours most likely.

Ana Lourenço

2y↑4

Hey, how long did you stay there? I need to plan because I want to see a strong display and am afraid I won't if I don't stay enough time

Jeremy Levy

2y↑7

@Ana Lourenço The trip I'm referring to in the comment was 9 days and I saw them once, but the show was super intense (rare experience). As I recall I didn't try to go out every night and search for them during that trip though...which is what you need to be doing. I did just finish another Iceland adventure a few days ago. This time the trip was 2 weeks and I saw the lights 5 times. 3 of those weren't very powerful displays and didn't last very long...like I could see them but they were faint and the lights weren't "dancing" a whole lot. The other two were pretty strong displays and lasted for hours, really cool to see but still nothing as intense as my first experience.

There aren't any guarantees at all no matter how long you go, but your statistical likelihood of seeing them is certainly higher if you're trying for longer. I recommend minimum 5 days, but ideally 1.5 to 2 weeks. If you're there for 2 weeks and constantly trying to go out when the forecast is looking good and you still don't see them...you've gotten incredibly unlucky. A really strong display I think is pretty rare so I wouldn't get your hopes up too much for something super intense...you may go and see them like I did quite a few times but none are crazy bright or fast. It's still really cool even if you don't get that experience.

Remember: Dark skies (away from big city lights), clear skies or partly cloudy (if the forecast shows cloud cover everywhere you won't see them), kp index 2 and up, ideally during New Moon (no moon visible in the sky), enough hours of darkness (sometime in April is the cutoff for Northern Lights viewing), check the auroral oval to see when it's over you, and have patience and dress warm!

Lex Luth

2y↑1

@Jeremy Levy I’m actually going to Iceland 🇮🇸 this Saturday for a week and hopefully I get a nice bonus out of my winter break of seeing it

Jeremy Levy

2y↑1

@Lex Luth Very nice! Good luck! If you time things right and get out to see them it should be a success!

Lex Luth

2y↑1

@Jeremy Levy Yeah man. I’m definitely going out every night just to see if I get lucky, crossing my fingers that I could catch it cause the weather forecast seems shaky for the time I’ll be there from what I seen (usually cloudy with light rain or snow) but then again from what I’ve read weather in Iceland can be quite unpredictable so we’ll see. I hope I’m lucky lmao

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Moppy

1y↑27

as a kid in the faroe islands i witnessed the northern lights at an extreme, it was late in fall and it had gotten to the colder point of the year, the entire sky was alive, it was like a Raging ocean of polychromatic lights more colorful than a rainbow and brighter than a full moon! it looked so apocalyptic we were in awe and legitimately afraid. i have not seen it like that ever since and this was about 15-20 years ago

Denisse Avila

41w

I believe this is the Veil the divides Earth from Heaven. 🙏 👼 It is mentioned in the Holy Bible 4 times. ✝️ 🕯 ⛅️

Northern Skies

1y↑8

Last week, I saw the best northern lights of my life in central MN (just an hour north of Minneapolis). They were easily stage 4 described in this video. However, instead of undulating ribbons of light, the sky was like a concert, with pink strobes covering the whole sky. The reds were also the deepest reds I’ve seen, easily visible to my naked eye. The storm that caused this amazing show ranked as a G4 (kp8) severe geomagnetic storm, the strongest storm since 2017. Even still, I didn’t expect to see such a surreal show this far south.

PAWEL KOLASA

49w

and WHY MILLIONS of people iddn't see it in 1000 km RADIUS? As it says it is?!

LizardFreak31

1y↑10

I just saw the northern lights for the first time on my grandparents farm. It was insanely beautiful, even if it just lasted for a few minutes and wasn’t the strongest. My Grandma just passed away, and today is the last night staying with the family I flew up to visit. We think that the lights were her, in one way or another♥️

Mamma Mia Skates

34w

I’m sorry your grandma passed. I saw a shooting star with my mom on our drive home right after my grandpa died. Was something I will never forget!

katieboo666

4y↑140

My friend and I went to Iceland in 2015 and we had the best show of them ever ....it lasted for hours and they danced all through the sky . .....we even saw the corona that night . We had been taken out by a tour company and given hot chocolate as it was freezing but perfect conditions . The tour guide said it was the best show of them in quite a while . I must admit I did get very emotional as we had tried the night before but it was too cloudy to see anything. So the next morning the skies were blue , not a cloud anywhere and it was bitter cold so I knew we had a good chance in seeing them. And we were not disappointed ..they were so good that even when we were heading back into Reykjavik amongst the city lights , we could still see them. The tour company took photos of us with the lights and emailed us a copy , I'll treasure that moment forever .

B V

3y↑6

That's exactly how I want to experience it. On acid or shoots on a good day like that

katieboo666

3y↑2

@B V I hope you get to see them. I still can't believe what I saw and I hope to go back to see them again someday .

Sem Mungrei

Which month was it, please?

katieboo666

3y↑1

@Sem Mungrei November

Aatmi tejani

Wowwwwww

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Devin Parker

2y↑25

Thank you for this! Every time I've tried to look for what the Northern Lights look like on YouTube, it's a timelapse. I wanted to know what they look like when you're actually standing there looking at them. I appreciate you breaking this down into the actual experience and stages.

Jan Jelle

2y↑7

Its hard to tape it. Timelapse are more beautiful than reality but when you see it then it’s really so amazing, no video can compete that!

Jessica Rabbit

41w↑2

Thank you for breaking it down! I saw a stage 1 in Maryland close to a year ago. It was grey and looked like a haze but I could see these weird slow wavy movements sway here and there. It was amazing. It could've been a higher stage and I just couldn't see the color. But I definitely could see what looked like wispy clouds swaying back and forth 😯❤️

misschilena

4y↑147

I saw them in Banff, Canada, in may 2017 and it WAS EXACTLY as in the pictures. The sky was totally green. I think it was one of the strongest solar storm in the last 10 years, stage 5. I cried like a baby because I had never seen anything more spectacular than that.

Megha Seth

2y↑2

Which month was it?

misschilena

2y↑2

@Megha Seth May.

Ak Runner

4y↑403

I love watching the Aurora’s. I live interior Alaska, and I see them all the time. It’s amazing how cool they look when they dance across the night sky.

Rita Lawson

4y↑11

In Scotland they call them the heavenly dancers and no wonder they are so beautiful 💞💛💚♥️💙❤️

Yves Johnson

4y↑2

Hi!! When would be the best time to see them in the month of February in Alaska??

Æsir

4y↑8

You are so lucky you get to see them countless of times. That is such an experience for sure.

Waterproof

@Rita Lawson epic

Glenn Lavalle

3y↑2

Same here. Northern Maine you see them all the time. Didn't realize it was an event. Lol

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Manu Varma

4y↑121

I have been in Iceland last September and got to watch the Northern Lights. After 10 years of dreaming to see the lights, I was disappointed beyond belief, its almost as if my heart was crushed. There was a whitish grey haze like a cloud stretching across the sky, which was stunning in the pictures with long exposure. But the second day, there was a powerful solar storm (Kp>5) and there was a good show with mild greenish white, purple lights dancing across the sky. Yes that was beautiful and I was awestruck, but still cant compare with the pictures. So go with moderate expectations, hoping for a good solar storm, else prepare for a white haze. Also, some people's eyes are real sensitive to colors, they can see them a bit brighter than others. Anyway am a happy man!

Tip: Try not looking into your mobile phones or other artificial light sources for sometime as the eyes need to adjust to the darkness to see the northern light colors more vividly.

Esconis

3y↑2

I couldn't see it in my phone, but really visible with the naked eye. Yet someone had a camera where it showed crystal clear!

fink more 111

2y↑3

Pro tip: take some drugs that dillute your pupils like MDMA or LSD. Colors and movements do more pop, and you are definetly awestruck :)

EmilM

The lights can either be very clear or less clear

Molly Stroot

4y↑42

I've had the privilege of seeing some amazing northern lights. Way in northern Minnesota on the Canadian border, they were green and blue and white and yellow. Swirling around and dancing in the sky. I was in the boundary waters canoe area. We were doing some nighttime canoeing. It was something I'll remember for the rest of my life! Incredibly mesmerizing.

Ibrahim

Yeah someone from Minnesota

MahnaMahna32

1y↑5

Very informative! I didn't know that. I've seen them once as a teen in Quebec. Around the fire at camp and out of nowhere it was like the sky exploded into a giant red wave. Got so lucky because it wasn't off in the distance or anything, in the gap of trees that was our camp site it took up the whole sky right above my head. Lasted a few minutes and then disappeared. Greatest moment of my life!

Brettany Renée Blatchley

2y↑8

Very helpful! Some videos I have seen were obvious timelapses, but others made me wonder whether this was something that really "danced" in real-time before one's naked eye. Now I see that it can range from just "wispy slightly luminous 'clouds'" all the way to dancing streams that are readily seen.

Krissy U

4y↑6

Thank you Jan for such a great video and explanation! I really appreciate it very much. I saw some live cam video of Northern Lights and it was like basically kind of a gray sky with just a hint of a little bit of green and that was it and you'd have to really Photoshop it to really get the bright green that you see in pictures. thanks very much for showing us the 4 stages, I had no idea that there was such a thing! What time of night does the 4th stage happen? Is it like 4 a.m. or something or like around what time of night is the 4th stage? Just wondering.

Hector Flores

4y↑11

I went to Fairbanks Alaska four years ago, and I experienced level one. I was a little disappointed because it was not what I expected, but honestly this video gave me hope to try again and hopefully be able to experience level four someday :)

watira Suldy

40w

right ! I have exactly the same experience in Fairbanks...

Amberlie Morgan

3y↑2

I went to Rovaniemi, Finland to see the aurora and I kept being told I wouldn't really he able to see them with my naked eyes or probably even my phone's camera (if they appeared at all. It was cloudy at the first place we stopped at) When we tried our last stop, everyone else was busy with their fancy cameras and I was just staring at the sky ~~hoping.~~ I saw these little white wisps at first and I honestly figured it was smoke from the campfire, but then off to the right theu started kicking up and while they were the big wide bands that cross the whole sky, they were visible enough for all of us to absolutely freak out, and I got phone pictures without too much issueaside from the general phones-hate-space-pictures issue.

Susan Ritter

3y↑1

I have seen spectacular Northern Lights in the sky over a small Northern Pennsylvania, US town one cold, clear November night. Being that the light had travelled so far South, we could only see what appeared to be sheer, red curtains wafting in the breeze. They were everywhere, all over the sky, and lasted for a long time. It was a spellbinding display; one I’ll not ever forget. I’d love to travel to Norway someday, and see the Aurora in its green & purple colour phases.

MeghanMisaLIAR

What year? How is that even possible?

mjproebstle

5y↑6

very accurate - excellent video, photo, visual and descriptive points! as with everything astronomical, there are better nights and conditions for seeing than others. i was fortunate enough to be stationed in keflavik iceland for the winter, and we were spoiled by incedible displays, but not every night, and i'm sure we missed many awesome displays due to weather. but that one or two experiences of the 'stage 4' aurora as you describe, makes the journey and experience well worth it! great video!

Just Leslie

mjproebstle unless you're above artic circle you won't see them

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gary K

2y↑2

I have seen them many times from Quebec and Ontario Canada. Most often the looked like gray, thin clouds that would seem to appear and then just fade away. In fact, the first few times I saw them, I didn't think that's what they were, but thought it was very strange behavior for "clouds". It wasn't until on one occasion the gray "clouds" turned shades of green and began moving that I realized I had been seeing the northern lights all those times.

Chicken Of the Cave

Went to Fairbanks Alaska and saw them once. I think it was a KP index of 1 or 2 out of 9, so really really low. Woke up at 2AM and saw a very faint green/gray haze in the Northern sky, which you wouldn't know it was the Aurora unless you were thinking about it. I was super bummed at how faint it was and how it was nothing like the pictures/videos, but then I pulled my phone out to take some pictures and they showed up extremely well with vibrant greens. For some reason the Aurora just shows up so much better in camera photos, probably something to do with exposure and what not. Definitely recommend seeing it sometime in everyone's life

Brandi Johns

This was so helpful!! I took some photos in the upper peninsula of Michigan tonight because we got a “Geo storm warning”…I got so excited (FL girl) and my photos looked like them but I didn’t see the same thing. Of course I was expecting the green and purple crazy sky but I’m glad I did actually see them thanks to your explanation

Andreas Persson

2y↑20

Living in North sweden and I have probably seen the Northern lights a thousands of times. Still it sometimes can make me amazed with shapes, speed and colours.
Many even among us that lives up here doesn't know that it makes a sound.
You have to be very far away from civilization and without disturbing sounds to hear it.
It is many years since I heard it now even thou I live 17km away from a city and that is because I live by the river and the rapids water sound.
I have made some time lapses from my property.

W.L.

Thanks for sharing your experience. This March I went to Tromso in Norway and I saw the Northern lights, it was amazing, almost like a religious experience. I remeber I heard somthing but I was not sure, now I know what I heard is real.

Andreas Persson

@W.L. this Saturday we were up at North Cape in Norway, my wife have not been there before so she had it on her bucket list but I was there in 2012.
Anyway... Back home it had been a huge northern light....up there in North Cape I didn't see anything of it when I was out walking the dogs at night.
seems like one can be to far north sometimes. :)

Lauren Austin

Hi Andreas, just wondering if the chances of seeing the northern lights in abisko national park are high? We are looking at going for four nights.

Laura Hess

3y↑12

Thank you very much for going over all of this for everyone. I really hope to get to see this someday!

Ibrahim

Same

MyMagic111

1y↑4

Back in August 1966, my mother woke my brother and I from a sound sleep around 2 am. She wanted to show us something incredible. We trailed after her outside to see what had her all excited. When we arrived in our backyard, we looked up. It was like we were in a giant cathedral with drapes and streamers of light flickering from thousands of feet high. Above the mountains surrounding our valley, more curtains of light snapped and rippled. The lights were mostly greenish but there some faint signs of magenta as well. It was a sight that I have never forgotten.

Marfadog

50w↑1

That's such a great story.

Prasanna

39w

And went right back to sleep after that ? 😂

Frank Neulichedl

5y↑2

We just spent two weeks in Lofoten and Senja and had the opportunity to see the northern lights 7 times clearly and a couple of times behind clouds. We even had the luck of a real storm, where you see them with the naked eye just after sundown in bright green. The lights come in waves and you can get faint and bright lights in the same night, just hours apart. We just went to bed for an hour in our RV and tried again.

misc. endeavours

3y↑4

Some 30 years ago I saw aurora borealis in Somerset, UK. There were reports the next day of how they had been most visible in Cornwall. I did not know to begin with what I was seeing and it was quite unnerving but hypnotic. Toweringly tall purple curtains were just wafting, as if slo-mo, in the dark sky for a few minutes. Astonishing and beautiful and very memorable.

MeghanMisaLIAR

1y↑1

I can't even imagine.

Look up Tartaria

45w

Wherabout s in Somerset pls?I live there too.Thanks

Tony KC

1y↑1

Well, watching Aurora is really a matter of luck. I went to Yellowknife of Canada in December 2017 to watch it. It was damn good as the dancing Aurora with numerous colours, according to the guide, was the most intensive one the guide had ever seen. That trip took me 5 nights staying in the small town, but only the 3rd night had such an amazing display, all other nights were only a thin shade of green in the sky

DME EMD

4y↑2

This was one of the best simple and accurate explanation I have ever come across, your video needs more views! I love that you had really good video and pictures to go with everything!

bangers n mash

We went to Norway in January this year luckily before lockdown, and it's truly amazing we were lucky to see them 3 times and every time was different. They look like white cloud at first but you do see a hint of green. But they really come to life through a camera. Midnight sun is next on the list

iTet Castro

4y↑1.9K

My dream to see the northern light...someday.

Andrew George

4y↑18

Always my dream

Yuiiski

4y↑32

I went to Iceland last year and missed it, I stayed with a friend and we went out to see it but no luck. But, of course the day I go home the lights were out in force and I missed it.

TheIsmaelIsaac

4y↑6

Where the lights are coming from?

Sp33d

4y↑15

TheIsmaelIsaac the lights are from sun reflection of solar storm hitting our planet magnetic field and center of that is in north and south poles.

TheIsmaelIsaac

4y↑4

@Sp33d but how come it happens when there's no sun in both poles? I suspect the sun is behind this phenomenon it could be the magnetic charges but definitely has nothing to do with the sun and certainly has many things to do with magnetic, air pressure and ice.

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Vicky Garnett

2y↑9

I’ve been very fortunate to have seen the Northern Lights in both Tromsø and Iceland. But I am very aware of how lucky I am because they are such fickle things! My recommendation for anyone planning a trip to see the Northern Lights is to make sure your trip is not all about seeing the Northern Lights. Go somewhere where there are other things to do and see. Because then if you go all that way and don’t see them, you’ll still have had a great trip. Think of the Northern Lights as a bonus to your holiday.

Into The Wild

Hi ! I have just returned from a 9 days trip to Tomsø and I totally agree with you ! However, although there is a big difference between my photos and what I really saw with the naked eye, what I saw was absolutely amazing, fabulous (level 3 in your classification) during a very dark and cold night in the Lyngen Alps.

debschublu

2y↑6

This is absolutely a bucket list experience. I was just wondering if the northern lights are related to a rainbow? They are both the most magnificent sky art!

julie Wallis

They are not related to rainbows.

They are solar flares. Rainbows are just splitting white light into its component colours by the raindrops acting as prisms.

Nick Powell Photography

The sensor on digital cameras is able to capture far more of the colours within the northern lights than the naked eye can see. This is why when taking a photo it looks a lot more saturated.

Am off to Iceland on Saturday, so hope to be able to capture them for myself. 🇮🇸😁

Jan Jelle

I wish you luck! Iceland is always tricky but nice as well! Weather is really changing all the time and I hope you will be lucky to see the aurora!

Bruce Dillinger

3y↑8

Saw them on a nighttime ferry ride from Juneau to Sitka way back in 1983.
About 10 pm someone yelled out "The lights are out, the lights are out!" Everyone ran to the top deck and for the next 2 hours we all watched, completely captivated!
They changed intensity and size as our ferry changed its direction according to our course.
It was the highlight of my first trip to Alaska.
(This was in late September btw.)

Amit Khilnani

4y↑4

100% correct. I visited Lapland in Dec'17 and saw white colors moving in the sky one evening when I was walking all alone. Till now I was confused if it was someone just flashing a torch in the sky from somewhere in the hills. But I guess after seeing you describe stage 1 exactly as I witnessed, I shall now be able to pacify myself that it was actually the Northern lights. Haha!

On another night I saw a faint green line in the sky. This time there were people around me who also got excited so I was certain this was definitely it. However I was disappointed with how faint it looked with the naked eye. We saw another guy setup his camera on a tripod and take a pic, and that came out so bright and amazing. That's when I realised what we see on the internet is far far far away from what we will see in reality. He was kind enough to take a pic of my wife and me and email it to us. In that it looks a nice bright green and will remain our memory of the norther lights.
I'm surely going back to one of the Scandinavian countries in the winter and hope to see stage 4 atleast once.

Carol Freisleben

Thank you! I went to see the Northern Lights about 10 years ago and only saw grey clouds dancing in the sky but took spectacular pictures with my camera. I came home and researched on the internet if you could see colors with the naked eye! If so, I would try to see them again. If not, then I saw what I could.

G. Adam Elliott

5y↑17

two days ago i had the exact same experience; you described mine perfectly....at first i wasnt sure if i was looking at cloud coverage or the dust from the lights...but if you turned around, and looked south, i was easy to tell you were looking at the dust - because there were no clouds in teh sky for miles!!!! we were on top of the cruise ship deck, looking into what could only be described as "a blurry window, out of earth into space." it was not much longer after that first wtf is this cloud moment, we saw the other stages develop......light takes 8 mins to go from sun to earth you have to watch for a good hour to see as much as you can.....we saw light coming up from behind the mountains, some in streaks, some in paintbrush looking strokes, some in l-r waves, and then the dancing above you was insane.....great video to sum up the exact feelings the 4 of us lucky ones had at 2 am lol

A H

G. Adam Elliott what country were you in?

dave galyon

I gotta say I'm a little envious. On my bucket list.

two arrows

5y↑27

When I was seven, my family vacationed at Four Winds Resort in Marquette, Michigan U.S. The second night we were there we could fully see the Milky Way. The next night an Aurora appeared. 1977 turned out to be a record year for the distance south it appeared. I think I heard in 2023, the Aurora Borealis will be seen in the Northern U.S again as well as parts of England and Germany, and Mongolia and Northern China.

DM McHugh

4y↑1

I believe there will be more active sunspot and sunglass activity starting 2023 (6 year cycle). I am planning my aurora trip for 2024 for that reason.

Kat Storm13

They can be seen in Minnesota,. Wisconsin, Michigan and others still. True they're not as often as they were a few years ago, but I have seen them several times just an hour north of Minneapolis.

Luke Morrison

Last night was absolutely incredible in northern Minnesota. I've heard many saying it was the best show in decades. It lasted for hours, dancing green and purple curtains and pillars brilliantly visible to the naked eye from the horizon all the way to directly overhead. Happened to be a clear, cold, still night with virtually no moon, yet it was almost as bright out as being underneath a full moon. I'm only about 8 hours from it right now and it's a night I'll never forget.

Solarlunar

it has already appeared at parts of northern china

Sophia k

52w

Hi it's 2023 now and let me tell you, last Sunday there was a spectacular Northern Lights show in the U.S but I'm just so unlucky that clouds covered our view.

Tammy Abraham

4y↑2

I live in central Alberta Canada and am able to take photos all year round from where I live. Yes, it's better to have no light pollution but you don't have to be "far" north to see all the magical beauty of the aurora, the last really big solar storm I photographed wall of these colors and the newest phenomenon called STEVE from actual sunset until the light of the sun washed away the colors. It confuses me why so many believe they have to be really far north or south to see them and how many think they can only be seen in winter. I have dated photos to show different !s I'm sure many pros already know.

Molly Stroot

I've lived in northern Minnesota most of my life. I've had the great fortune to see some absolutely beautiful displays of northern lights. Both in winter and summer. It's the most amazing awe inspiring spiritual thing I've ever seen. Spectacular!

D’Antoine LeVert

2y↑2

My family and I were on a plane back from Iceland. We were all asleep when the plane undergone some slight turbulence. Due to the turbulence, I opened my eyes to check the window. Well, I was SURPISED because I saw a green snake-like light slowly dancing through the window. I immediately woke my family up and told them that the Northern Lights appeared through the plane’s window! I took videos and photos of the beautiful natural phenomena. My family were in awe. I shed some tears of joy, hugged my mom, and appreciated that moment. I hugged my dad and brother too. Seeing the Northern Lights was one of my bucketlist, and we were lucky and blessed to have seen it from the airplane window. It was indeed a dream come true. I hope to see it again from the ground. I love the Northern Lights.

Aisha

Can you send me the pics on Instagram? Im really curious what it looks like from a plane

D’Antoine LeVert

@Aisha it looks the same as the one in this video! However, the video's description is right. The Northern Lights does not look as "bright" in your naked eye compared to your cameras. Maybe it depends on how strong the energy particles are but based on my experience, it looked more shiny and bright through my camera. However, you could still see the aurora slowly swaying with your naked eye.

aleoki

2y↑4

I have been fortunate enough to see all 4 stages. Stages 1 to 3 Ive seen quite a few times, but stage 4, just once. It was around 2am and I was looking out because I got an aurora watch notification. I went out my deck and there it was, beautiful dancing above my head, looked like a dragon dancing in the sky. I ran inside to wake my husband up, i felt like a child on Christmas morning. I still remember the date May 28, 2017. This was in Southern Canada.

Summer Gay

Aurora watch? Is this an app you downloaded?

MeghanMisaLIAR

@Summer Gay I want to know too lol. Probably a meteorology group.

Cheryl A

You can see the Northern Lights from pretty well everywhere in Canada. It depends on certain condition as to what stages you will experience. Of course the further north you go in quiet still, small communities you get the most spectacular displays.

Blu Daizee

Depending on the solar wind is the difference of intensity as well. Sometimes when the conditions are right you really do see that really bright green, pinks, and purples with the naked eye. I've lived in Northern Alberta for years now, and it's still so beautiful I get tears in my eyes! Lol

Susanna

3y↑1

So true! On this week I've seen Northern lights 3 times. The first two were just pale green, but then luckily yesterday at night I've seen "the real one" with many colors, which were moving so fast! Awesome feeling! I was so happy to see it at last. Now I understand, what they are. Seeing those green lights was also great, but a little bit disappointing, I even thought, if I'm so blind? That can't see more clearly. But no, no, just I needed patience yet.

Jan Jelle

Where do you live? I like to visite 😅

Julia Pahl

2y↑1

Thank you so much for your video. We are in Narvik and already gave up the idea of seeing the Northern Lights. When we went out with our dogs at 22:00, we saw the grey stripes that transformed into solid green - only because of your video, we were aware what the grey strips were.

science out there

Hi Jan, I’m putting together an Aurora photography video where I also talk about the “stages” but I only have 3 in my script. I wanted to see if other people describe it this way so I started searching around and found this great video and lots of views! If you are interested, I’d like to quote you in my video describing these stages and link this video. Would you be ok with that?

Jan Jelle

3y↑1

That’s okay, I just made it up. Because I thought it was just aurora and most people don’t see it so great as some do 😍

Tristezza Lamento Luciano

3y↑3

All I do is read about the Aurora. I obsessively look up pictures. I paint them. I dream about them.
One night I dreamed that I was night swimming. I went under water and went down deep in it's blackness. When I started to come up to the surface again I could see the Aurora from under the water, glowing and dancing. What looked like a heavenly melted candy, a liquid rainbow, met my eyes as I emerged from the water. I was completely spellbound, and I wish this had not been a dream. But it was. I hope someday it will come true.

Mickey Wicked

Absolutely beautiful! The truth is that there’s water above the Firmament and the northern lights dance across it. Those lights are pure energy emanating from the center of the Earth.

Oh, and where you (the REAL you) go in your dreams is infinitely closer to truth than this physical realm that you experience. Pretty much when you wake up in your bed in the morning, you’re essentially back in the real dreamland. “Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream...” 😊

Steve Schaut

Yep. Exactly! It was November 3 in northern Wisconsin, about 15 miles from the south shore of Lake Superior and well out of town. Nice clear, dark, starry sky! To the north I could see a white misty cloudy phenomenon. It was NOT fog, not with space weather Kp index of SEVEN! I knew I was looking at auroras but didn’t look so great. However, using the Slow Shutter app on my iPhone SE with 4-second exposure times, greens and orange-reds were clearly visible! I posted a video montage of the pictures on my channel to show Northern Wisconsin Aurora activity. I wasn’t disappointed!! 😀👍🏼

P Koster

2y↑1

I was in Tromso in 2018, we went on 2 nights to chase the light. On both nights we saw the lights dancing in the skies several times. It was absolutely magic. As good or even better as on the pictures. A must see once in your life.

Marco

In what month?

P Koster

2y↑1

@Marco January

Marco

@P Koster Thank you!

Derek Benoit

When I went to Troltunga Norway, (early September 2022) to do that epic hike, I was in a place I'd never expect to see the northern lights. Right before that special night, a lovely Taiwanese man told me that some hikers had seen them the night before, and that they were purple. I was shocked, yet it was enough to motivate me to keep my eye out. So even before I got into my sleeping bag right near the famed Troll's tongue, I saw some purple lines crisscross the mountains around me, and the fjord in front of me. Not even in the sky. It was surreal. At first, I had no idea what it was, but then I knew exactly what they were. And then, out in the horizon, I could see some faint purple flashes and it seemed they were reflecting on the mountains around me. Even though it was all faint, there was still no mistaking what I saw. I was so thrilled that I cried. It was always my dream to see the northern lights. Then at like three in the morning or something when I woke up (I had no tent and I was out in the open with my sleeping bag) I took another look at the sky but in another direction and I saw them again! Yet this time they were more noticeable in the sky, but still not so strong. They were like what was shown in that first stage in this video. A white haze with a little bit of some faint yet noticeable green if you looked well enough. Obviously, it was still the northern lights. Unmistakably. It was a shock for me because I did not know you could see them that south in Norway and at that time of year, so I was totally unprepared. I didn't even know what settings to use in my camera for the exposure to come out properly. I was so blown away even by these faint northern lights, that I just wanted to take in the moment, and allow my mind to be the sd card. The next morning, I shared the experience wiith some family members who were camping a distance away, and they didn't believe a word I said. But who cares? I know what I saw, and I will never forget the awe and wonder I felt in my soul. I can only begin to imagine what it must be like to witness the whole dance in all its glory. Greetings from Patagonia.

Martin Row

4y↑2

Hi, saw these several times at my grandparents, Great Lake region, US. Lime/neon green curtain followed by purple curtain, but it didn’t move so dramatically.It looked like wide stairway to heaven or something and looked like it was coming towards us and then gone.

TANYA SRI

2y↑2

This year’s (2022) February I was in Russia’s Murmansk. I especially visited Russia just to watch northern lights. Though it was a full moon night but we were good enough lucky to watch weak but beautiful northern lights. We went for two consecutive nights for aurora hunting. It was an incredible dream that came true. Earlier in 2019 too I booked a package for Russia for the same cause but Corona ruined it. I tell everyone if you haven’t seen aurora borealis your life is not worthy 😅. I will never ever forget that day of my life. In fact if ever I would get chance will again visit any of the countries where I can watch it❤ . This is something which nature has provided us to feel that we are alive✨

公路旅人FOX

4y↑6

The most beautiful Northern Lights I have seen is when I was traveling in Arctic Sweden in 2018 summer. There is even no actual nights in summer Arctic. I watched the northern light in the time call Nautical Twilight. During nautical twilight there is still some sunlight in the sky. But the northern light is just so bright so we can see them dancing in the sky even with little sunlight. Even an outdated mobile phone camera can take pictures of these northern lights. Sadly I forgot to bring my SONY camera to take better quality pictures. It is still really amazing and I won't forget the view in my life.

Rebecca S

2y↑14

Thank you sooo much for doing this. I live in Indiana ...no lights at all. Anything that shows up on your videos is more than I have. Thank you for taking your time out of your life to do this for us. Thank you! 🥳

S V

Same here..

Jamie Recaido

2y↑1

I’m going to be in Codeing school

CoxJul

You're right - most only see the grey haze with the naked eye. I was in Tromso in February. We went one evening on a lights hunt - driving to Finland border before we got open skys - the lights were feint but the pictures superb (even with my 3 sec phone camera). The following evening there were more visible aurora with the open eye in the harbour area - you could even see the green. Then we return to the UK and people are seeing it there... Luck is necessary - going to Tromso increases your chances!

Mstjazzy

Thank you so much! I know there are better times of the year to see them and I wish the internet was around when I was younger. I would have gone to see the beautiful ice sculptures, stayed in the ice hotel and maybe would've seen the northern lights. Maybe I could've visited my Scandinavian relatives and possibly learned more about my heritage. Thank you once again!

Jan Jelle

You’re welcome! A new video will be soon online

ᛞᚨᚾᚱ ᛟᛞᛁᚾᚾᛊᛟᚾ

I went to Oslo back in april of this year, not to see the northern lights obviously, but I heard that there was a lake (Sognvann lake) which if the conditions are right and the solar activity is like super strong, you can see them. And exactly that day the forecast said that there would be very strong solar activity, but around midnight i only could see a very faint green light in the horizon,almost over the clouds. But it was so faint that I thought that I was imagining things, and when i took a photo with my Iphone, I could see indeed a very faint aurora borealis. I know that Oslo isn't the best place to see them, but still I was kinda excited at the possiblity and then dissapointed 😂 still, i hope i can see them the next time i travel to norway, i want to go to tromso :)

F0NIX

5y↑23

...and then you have "stage 5" where you think you are dreaming or looking at a movie. The light from the Aurora can be so powerful and bright that it even makes shadows. And it can move fast, I even seen it "flashes" like there is a spot that lights up for a fractions of a second.... But that stage seldom happens and is short lived. So if you are not at the right spot or the sky is clear, you miss it.
By the way I live in this area and have seen a lot of Aurora in my lifetime. Most of the time it is as you say, just a faint green/grey mist over the sky.
Did you know there is actually Aurora Borealis activity even in the daytime. But that is of course not visible to our eyes.

Udaan🦋

U can send me pictures through instagram

Giulio Panettiere

Good and truthful video.

Guys I live in Norway and went to Tromso for a bunch of days to experience the arctic and the northern lights. The city is full of different agencies offering tours to ''chase them'' out of light pollution. Each of these tours costs around 100-140 euros per person. They assured us we would have seen them, despite the very low activity predicted on the Aurora Forecast. Well, what we got was a team of well-equipped photographers taking pictures of a grey small cloud that was slightly moving in the sky. Nothing more than this visible with our eyes. What I mean by this comment is: do not trust these agencies if the activity predicted is so low (you can check yourself with an APP). Northern lights in Tromso are a business and even if one time they would have not started the tour had the activity been so low now mass tourism is just too big and they will try to take as much money from tourists. My advice is: check if there is going to be good activity at the time you are there and then decide whether to buy one of the tours to get out of the city.

PS: the ''guide'' is often a professional ph who asks you if you want a portrait with the Aurora just to be later asked 30 bucks for the mere file of the photo. Be aware!

Erin wiggins

The northern lights love Alberta, Canada! Seen them in the city a few times (calgary) but the best was camping 3 yrs ago at ghost lake. They came right down over the campsite while about 6 of us were sitting around the fire. There were moments it felt like they were dancing around us. It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever or will ever experience in my life!!!

Ricky Barber

I think to see the Northern Lights in real vivid color, you need to be as far north as possible. In 1987 or 1988, I was working as a night watchman on a construction job, when Alligator Alley in South Florida, was rebuilt into a four lane divided Hi Way. It was a moonless night and black as black other than the stars. At first I thought I was seeing things. I begin concentrating toward the northern part of the sky, seeing a faint coloring of yellow and green lights. Now they was very faint but they was changing shapes ever so slowly. I decided what I was seeing , was the Northern Lights even though I was in South Florida. The brightness was about like what this video this man made.
When I went home that morning, I read in the newspaper that the lights that i had seen , was the Northern Lights. It was said that a rare weather phenomenon that had shifted the Northern Lights that far south. For the nonbelievers, go to the archives of the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel and look in the years 1987 or 1988 and read the article for yourself.
This was a real surprise to me to see the Northern Lights in South Florida even if they wasn't real bright and vivid. I think of it as, I didn't have to spend money to go to Northern Alaska to see them.

Adventure with Sunny

I used to lived in Alaska for 6 years, and of course, I had seen all kind of the northern lights. When the solar activities were strong, the lights were active and see colors in own eyes. But camera see more than our eyes.

T Lee M F

3y↑2

I feel so very blessed to have seen every type of Northern light one could EVER see...I ve seen all the swirls and dancing ,I ve had them create a cathedral of shandalere shards in a complete circle around where I stood they came down to literaly the tops of the trees and whistles and snapped and popped like a musical radio static ...and I've seen popsicle fucsia pink lights ...I ve seen them Sian the entire sky Scape of a valley I lived in creating I swear to god a grid of light seriously like a net across the valley and it went for miles as we drove just vefir mount Robsin right into the Robsin valley that dunster and McBride reside ...very SERIEL...
I genuinely felt as thou I had a personal relationship with them...
I recall Calli g a friend once when they created a full circle like a cathedral arou d where I stood and danced down to the tree tops and were singing ...it terrified my friend she could not be there with me and literally drove away ,went home and inside??? I could not understand it ...I haven't witnessed them in such majesty for many years now..people say you have to be out of city limits ,not true atall ..for many of my mom at spectacular events I was in town in Prince George B.C ...I can't believe so many folks have never seen them ...I ve also just learnt they tend to come around in seven year intervals . I had taken it personally when I hadn't seen them for years...✨💓✨

Dronethat

5y↑3

I’ ve seen one up in the Yukon in Canada. It looked like a whitish band of clouds initially. We were like, that was it? Is this the Northern lights we were talking about?Then slowly within haft an hour that band that looked like
clouds started changing in colour to pale
green then darkish then start dancing above us! It was a sight to behold! I’d love to see it again in the future.

luke jelley

37w

I was in Finland in March and saw the northern lights, at first i just thought it was cloud but then i could see faint flickering lights almost like strobe lights shining up but thats when i realized it was the northern lights. Great to see even though it didn't look anything like how they look on social media

David Melchor

1y↑1

So this past Sunday the aurora was actually visible here in the Pacific Northwest in USA I live in Washington it was my first time ever and was disappointed at first because it wasn’t visible to the naked eye but we drove around town and backroads where it’s dark and omg there was a moment the light got bright and left me and my brothers in awe. Was so happy I got to see it in person but this is 100% accurate a lot of it wasn’t visible to the naked eye but in the pictures they were there for sure

Chimy in Finland

I’ve seen once in 2015 which is so strong and amazingly beautiful for whole night long even from the city with light polution. Since then, i feel doesn’t want to see anymore if it’s just in stage 1 or 2, but still I’m curious to see the red color one 😍

Steven `Wilgus

2y↑1

As a teen I spent part of a Summer in New York State. I will always remember the spectacular show of Aurora Borealis one night. I was utterly amazed that the Northern Lights would appear that far South-- but it surely did.

K123

Where in New York? I’m moving upstate and want to see them so much

Steven `Wilgus

@K123 The Finger Lakes

gktwgreeter

Thank you for the explanation of how to view the Northern Lights. I saw it on a flight from Los Angeles to London when I was very young. It was amazing.

Joana R

3y↑4

Its the most amazing natural phenomena I’ve ever seen in my life ❤️

Gosia Gie

i could not agree more :) been to Tromso few weeks ago and was so lucky to see the Northen Lights... in all 4 stages ... the sky was "rocking away" :))) 😍

Kat Storm13

Yes I saw them last year, mostly grey/white but tinged with green and red sometimes. But it was flickering and dancing like a campfire.
One other time, they looked the way an indoor swimming pool reflects on the ceiling and walls. Completely overhead!

Römsen

Yes, all good points :D
Northern lights are just not a tourist attraction like: you fly/drive up, have seen them and everything is fine. No. Northern lights are like rain. You have so many gradations (as you yourself have worked out excellently), virtually from the very light drizzle to the very blatant summer rain shower. The people who experience the latter (by pure chance) enthuse about it, of course, but don't actually know how lucky they actually were. Because at least they go when it is halfway worthwhile from the solar activity. And this is exactly what produces some disappointments. And also all the cameras and "providers" of northern lights tours, sell of course mostly more than it might be good.
There is always a chance, but sometimes it is quite simple: expect little, and then more astonished! Good luck and fun to all who are on the road again from September.

Harry dyck

1y↑1

Northern Canada one night when I was a child playing hockey in our backyard, on the rink my dad built, the northern lights swallowed the whole sky in an instant. The way the colors changed and moved around made me think the sky was falling down on me . I freaked out because it was my first time seeing them like that before. I had to cover my head and close my eyes hahahahaha. I wish I could see them like that again, but I live in the south now and were just too far to have that sort of light show.

Anthony King

5y↑28

I love watching honest videos about Norway... great video. Fully candid videos about Norway are rare. This, for once, tells you the full story...

Jan Jelle

5y↑2

I am journalist but I like it as well, tell it how it is and no framing and so on. But as it comes to aurora, you will know it when you see it.

VisionAssoc

4y↑3

I spent a month in Norway driving from Oslo to Bergen and then Lofoten. It’s very different to how it’s projected on Instagram and social media. It really was a big disappointment, especially Lofoten. I found the weather to be very oppressive and the scenery although dramatic, quite bleak and dark....I couldn’t wait to leave after a month. Plus the cost of everything is crazy. I then spent a month in Sweden, in the time I was in the Arctic circle I didn’t see the northern lights once.

L. Pavelic

@VisionAssoc in which month were you in sweden?

Esconis

I saw the northern lights in Iceland on a school trip. They don't really move, but mostly fade in and out occasionally. At one point they wiggled a bit. So it's not obvious with the naked eye to see them moving unless you speed it up.

Rollaguy 95

2y↑1

Good video for those who have not seen them yet. It's true that they are not like in pictures, but in my opinion, they are more cool in naked eye. It's allways amazing experience when the lights appear, you never know how they move or how bright they will be. It's exiting. I live in southern finland and have seen the lights about 20 times in a year. They are not so cool here in the south but still nice. Still havent seen them on top of my head. Hopefully soon in future.

Neffy Cat

It's nice tio meet you, friend. Thank you so much for sharing! I've seen the first stage but had not gotten to see the whole show yet! It is amazing to watch in your video. Thank you for explaining the different stages. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Sangeetha Dilip

4y↑2

Very true!!!! But it's an out of the world experience to watch with your naked eye. I visited Tromso in the month of February.. It was just a 3 day schedule but we were were lucky enough to get to see the lights within 30 minutes of our arrival to the camp. It was just mind blowing. And with a bonus of moon rise after an hr just speechless.Nature has so much within!!!!!

astrojeff

We filmed that stage 4 once, used a slower shutter speeed to brighten the colors, but at real time. It was amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JpsQJmxpFo

Sukanya G

4y↑3

I totally agree with you!! It was disappointed twice . I saw northern lights but I was expecting things like they show in pictures ... But it is always a light cloud. But sometimes it can be very intense as well. Very lucky you saw them

Elephant Company

4y↑2

Large thank you for providing category in respect to northern light intensity, its something ive been wanting to do for a while, but now i will not bother.
My favorites are ofcourse three and four.

Sara Llewellyn

Jan, there's actually a Stage 5.

March 13, 1989. The entire night sky lit up in brilliant red hues as far south as Orlando, maybe further. I remember this clearly because I thought the sun had come out at midnight!The sky was blood red and city lights couldn't drown it out. This was because the Earth had taken a direct hit from a class X8 coronal mass ejection.

Gordon Graham

I only saw the first stage. To the naked eye, I could see what looked like clouds dancing. When I took a long exposure photo, it was green. I would love to see the full sky dancing.

l hud

Lived in Wissahickon…a North West portion of Philadelphia, Penna. USA.
Sitting outside talking with a neighbor…when these fingers of green light began moving slowly across the sky. (This was in the late 1950s.)
There were other colors mixed in…lavender, whitish green…but the memory is of long fingers..,first reaching, then withdrawing…it was beautiful to see and we just sat there in amazement while the show…lasted.
This was the first and last time I’ve seen them…it made for a magical night!
(And displayed in the skies of Philadelphia…of all places!)
Hope that everyone interested in the phenomenon has that same opportunity at least once…The Creator’s Hand is in these moments.

junbug1029

3y↑3

We lived in Fairbanks Alaska for almost 15 years and the Aurora has a cycle of 11 years. During the on years they would be bright and green over our house. On the off years there were none.

Rolf B

4y↑274

You never know with the aurora. Suddenly it happens, and just as suddenly is gone. Never ceases to amaze tho.

Ra Uranus

thank you for taking the time to make this video, its very good and informative. much love brother!

Oscar Morales

5y↑2

I would one day love to travel north to see a good view of the northern lights. I've seen them on occasion here in Minnesota but they can only be seen horizontally.

Lynelle Thompson

You can sometimes see the Aurora in Northern Minnesota and when they are really active the whole sky will be dancing with the Aurora all night. It is so beautiful!!

sweeper1977

Under-rated video. One of the rare few realistic descriptions of the lights.

Gab

I lived in Fairbanks, AK, and it was always so aggravating to see how photos were manipulated. I've gotten still gorgeous photos with minimal editing so they are closer to the naked eye.

Jan Jelle

Check my latest video, made last week! There you have some video shots, just how it is

McQuack

4y↑21

I've lived in Tromsø and worked as a northern lights guide and it's not fair that you just confirm that "northern lights are not what they show you on pictures" based on a 5 day experience...
I've seen the aurora with my naked eye some nights that it could just light up an entire fjord in green and purple from how strong it was and I can 100% guarantee that you can see what you see on pictures.
The problem is that people expect to go and see amazing northern lights as if it was something you can turn on, but they are literally solar plasma...
So depending on the amount of plasma that reaches earth, they will be stronger or weaker...

It is such a variable phenomenon that you shouldn't definitely claim it is not what you expect from that short experience cause it will just ruin some other dreams of seeing something they can actually see, just don't take for granted that you'll see them 10/10 and value the fact that what you are seeing is coming from the f*ckin sun!!

Vojtěch

2y↑3

I was thinking the same. But then, is it even worth traveling all the way to the north for couple of days? I mean how frequent are the auroras? I would love to see these one day, but I dont think spending 3 days somewhere gives me any decent chance..

Tanya Bartley

2y↑1

Thanks for your info, i live in the Caribbean and im planning on taking a trip..What is the best time of year to travel to Tromso and how long a visit to experience the Northern Lights in all its glory?

Nabarun Dinda

When should we travel Tromso. Please let us know.

Keith Folse

2y↑1

THANK YOU. You are 100% correct! A camera can catch a show that your eye can't really see. What is a light gray "cloud" to your eye becomes a green sky to your camera. GREAT INFORMATION!!! We are going to Alaska next month to try to see a bigger and better show! (The best so far have been in Alta, Norway, and Tromsø, Norway.). :-)

tcomneo

i´m from Germany and i did my military time in 1996 and at that time we
had the battle griffin NATO maneuver in Norway and we where stationed
near Bodø and went later to a trip to Tromsø and the northern lights i
witnessed there was the most beautiful thing i ever witnessed...when you
lay down in the night in the trench while on guard duty and watch this
phenomena happen its so amazing i will never forget that :-)

The Optimistic

Some dreams can never become the reality like this one for me.... I am fascinated about the sky, stars, northern lights and everything related to sky. I know I can't get to see that amazing phenomenon.

Rajesh Vijayaraghavan

Thank you. Are Northern Lights better visible during the summer or winter months? Summer months in the North may be short, but still curious.

Jan Jelle

You need darkness so wintertime gives more hours of it

Muriel Vaillancourt

I live in Canada, Quebec North and in 1980, we saw the rare red Northern Lights during a ride in truck in an isolated area. It was very special, so profound red!

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