Wonders of Nature Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights

This webpage is dedicated to observing aurora borealis or northern lights. From the Netherlands the auroral lights are only visible during the maximum of a solar cycle, so once in roughly 11 years. But a couple of years around the maximum you will have change to observe the northern lights from Holland too. If you like to have much more change to observe the northern lights then you have to travel to very northerly locations. Such as the Lofoten islands in the high north of Norway! And you can increase your changes even more when a so called Coronal Hole passes by near the center of the suns surface.

Lofoten, march 2009	De Bilt, january 2005	Houdringe, october 2003	De Bilt, march 1989

The sun is starting "to wake up again" so we are anxiously awaiting the first CME to produce a nice Auroral display over the Netherlands!

• Aurora Predictions and Observations
• 20-27 march 2009 : aurorachase at the PolarLightCenter (Rob Stammes), Laukvik, Lofoten, Norway
• 21 january 2005 : images of some fine aurora taken from my home at De Bilt
• 30 october 2003 : images taken from location Houdringe, De Bilt of an extremely bright and colorfull aurora!
• 25 september 2001
• 11 april 2001
• 31 march 2001
• 28 july 2000
• 15 july 2000
• 13 march 1989 : two old-fashioned analog images of the bright aurora at De Bilt 20 years ago!

External Links

• WikipediA
• Poollicht (by Roy Keeris)
• Polarlightcenter - Lofoten - Straumnes (by Rob Stammes)
• Noorderlicht
• Polarlicht-Chat
• Aurora Borealis (by Tom Eklund)
• Aurora Galery (Spaceweather.com)

Lighteffects

Noctilucent Clouds

Aurora

Solar and Lunar Eclipses

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