New Years Eve saw the return of enhanced solar winds from a coronal hole that has been present on the sun for the last few rotations. There were clear skies in south-west Iceland although the bright full moon washed out some of the aurora display. However, we had moderate activity for

This evening I had a brief view of a low-altitude aurora glowing over the top of the mountains to the north of my location. In the photo below, a small area of green glow can be seen along the top of the mountain with the main auroral band being located lower to the north and blocked

A reasonably strong green auroral arc was visible in the north again this evening at around 20:00 UTC. Unfortunately it was very windy at my location and I only took a few record shots between 19:57 and 20:08 which are shown below (Images 1 to 4). Later in the evening at around 22:20

There was a Christmas Day aurora this evening which started with a moderate intensity green arc low in the northern horizon from 18:45 UTC (Images 1 and 2). Later in the evening there was a weak striated band overhead which I observed from 23:22 on the 25th until 00:15 on the 26th (Im

Despite patchy cloud I was able to see a low aurora arc to the north between 19:17 and 19:31 UTC this evening, before the clouds along the northern mountains completely hid it from view. The arc was a weak green to the naked eye but brighter on the camera.

A very weak aurora was visible tonight from (at least) 22:48 to 23:25 UTC, comprising a low rayed arc at about 15 degrees altitude in the north which was barely visible at all with the naked eye but could be seen slightly better by the camera. For a short while a second diffuse arc co

There was a decent spell of aurora activity early in the evening that was observed from Scotland but largely hidden from view in Reykjavik area due to heavy clouds. Fortunately I got a glimpse of green through a small gap in the clouds at 19:02 UTC, which was followed by a larger gap

Activity was relatively low this evening, but there were beautiful clear skies which allowed me lovely views of a nice green aurora low on the northern horizon (15 to 30 deg) from 21:50 UTC on the 10th through to 00:15 UTC on the 11th (after which I went home due to the sub-zero tempe

Below are a few pictures from a spell of aurora activity between 21:15 and 22:05 UTC on a very clear evening. Activity this night was mostly moderate, although there was a period of activity between 21:09 and 21:35 that was much stronger with bright greens to the eye and several bands

It was very cloudy this evening with some big snow clouds rushing across the sky, but during some gaps between 22:14 and 23:07 UTC I had some tantalising glimpses of the aurora. There was a low arc in the northern sky that was green to the eye and mostly to around 30 degrees above the