Anyone seen these bad boys in the sky before?
Did you travel to them? Was it worth it?
Just discovered there’s such a thing as the Southern Lights too, I had no idea
Those who saw them: Where and why there?
I cheated slightly, but I saw them from a flight from Seattle to LHR last October. They weren’t at their best, just greening up the sky.
Still counts, I have looked out of plane windows and successfully seen nothing
Have seen them a couple of times from my folks place in the Highlands, here are some pics my bro grabbed a few months ago:
Would like to do a proper camping trip somewhere to see them properly but too scared I’d see fuck all and just waste my money.
I saw them in Minneapolis, where I was on holiday with my dad. I ran inside to get him to come look too, and when I opened the hotel room door he was pissing in the sink. It was a night of contrast.
(They were amazing - only green and quite far away but still unbelievably cool)
What a sight that must have been!
Not the same but I saw some nacreous clouds in Aberdeen last week, which Borealis heads might also enjoy
Recall seeing a wisp or two from my bedroom window in the west of Ireland when I was about eight. Caught 'em again in Iceland just outside a Keflavik airport hotel on the last night of my trip. A faint enough display cos of the light pollution but the movement was still very perceptible.
Every time it’s hit Ireland since then it’s been cloudy where I am. I’ve jumped in the car a few times at the hint of a possibility and never got a twinkle. I’ll still keep trying though
(just about) saw them in Iceland back in 2015.
The long-exposure photos that I took were a lot better than it was with the naked eye.
Saw em by chance when wandering around in Iceland. Didn’t see them on the excursion to see them.
I put never seen never tried but actually one night circa 2004 there was a report that there was going to be an aurora so bright it might be visible from the midlands, so we went out to have a look. Couldn’t really see anything, maybe a faint aurora but most likely just some wispy high altitude clouds reflecting streetlight glare. So i have technically tried to see them but only in the sense of going a few feet outside my back door
Saw them in Iceland back in March!
Went on one of the standard £25ish bus tours from the city centre. Was postponed the first night due to bad weather and rescheduled for free the night after.
They drove us out the city northwards at 9pm for about an hour or 2 and the percentage chance was 20%, but after a bit of chasing/guessing we managed to see them if various forms across the sky for an hour.
The coldest my toes have ever been.
Marckee’s eye had its knob out!
Went to Iceland in 2014, wasn’t the reason as mainly roadtripping for the other sights but we overlapped with the end of the season. Booked for the last tours of the year but it got cancelled due to the weather, however we went hunting for them a few days later when staying in Vik and saw them at the side of the road which whilst it doesn’t sound it was spectacular as it was just the two of us and complete silence, did take a while for the eyes to adjust. Then our next hostel was closer to the glacial lagoon Jökulsárlón and we were able to watch them again for ages to the sound of seals and ice cracking, there were plenty of people there and every so often there’d be groans as a car turned in with their lights on to ruin everyone’s photo. The hostel had a conservatory so continued watching them in the warmth.
Film photos of it
This is number one on my bucket list
Seen them twice. Iceland trip in 2008. Just the greens.
Then following year on snowboarding holiday in Finland - got some red with the green 
Went on a work trip to the top of Norway, spent the whole trip being told we wouldn’t see the Northern lights cos the weather was all wrong. Then on the last night they turned up out of nowhere, a grey, shit version apparently, I got told they were 2/10 Northern lights, but I still thought they were mint. Would love to go see a better version, would be mind blowing
Seen the quite a few times, actually. One of the perks of working offshore with little light pollution, and living in Aberdeen.
It is quite amazing for sure, but time lapse videos and photos generally give them a much more dramatic look. It’s quite wild to think what causes them, mind
The aurora borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, is caused by charged particles from the sun colliding with gases in Earth’s atmosphere. When these charged particles, primarily electrons and protons, from the sun’s solar wind interact with gases like oxygen and nitrogen in the Earth’s atmosphere, it leads to the emission of light. This process creates the stunning and colorful light displays known as the aurora borealis.
I didn’t know this
