Amazing evening with wonderful auroras despite the at-times heavy cloudcover. Through the gaps in the clouds some strong corona could be seen and high activity all over the sky - even in the far south.

Photo details: Nikon D3, Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 10 sec exposure at ISO 800

Finally after what feel like years of waiting, the auroras exploded last night. The display was so strong it was no problem photographing them in the middle of the city lights by the Aviation museum in Bodø.

Photo details: Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm 15 sec, ISO640

Aurora watchers, strong magnetic storm at the moment on my instruments.Go to a dark place now and this evening,when the sky is clear there is northern light all over.The blue line is from my ground current instrument.

Much stronger aurora than last night. Continuous from about 10:30 to 3:00 am. While mostly weak, there were bursts of nice activity with some pink color on the bottom of the bands. Moon was down so very dark.

Photo details: Nikon D3 14-24mm and 16 mm; f2.8, 5-10 secs., ISO 1600.

Nice aurora display just before and at morning twilight.

In a series of pictures of the Aurora I also captured this one. Together with the vivid Aurora over Andenes, Norway, there was also a lightning object! It looks like a green parachute coming from above. See upper right part of the photo. What did I see? (A larger version of my picture is available upon request.)

What happens in our atmosphere when there is pulsating aurora,we don't know.Last night,after many hours with fantastic northern lights, there was a more special phenomenon--the so-called "pulsating aurora." Aurora in the form of spotlights, blinking in a 2 till 3 second period. Not easy for camera's but looking with scientific eyes it's amazing. On the recording around midnight utc,the pulsating signal on my ground current instrument.As a mirror in the ground, contact with the upper atmosphere.