Feel free to ask me anything regarding this topic.

Strongly recommend to experience this at least once in your lifetime

Useful tips:
1. Season is from September to April
2. Recommended location: Tromsø outskirts. City has too much light pollution. Northern Finland, Iceland, Svalbard, central scandinavia also possible
3. Spend to go on a tour that offers professional photos for memories. The last thing you want are worthless photos from all the money spent and suffering sub-zero temperatures
4. Stay for a week. Weather is difficult to predict and is usually the biggest obstacle
5. Moon cycles when it is new moon is when sky is the darkest
6. Peak of 11 year solar cycle is expected in 2025. Next year or 2025 is still a good time
7. If on tight budget, book flights, hotels and buy winter clothes way in advance
8. Download aurora apps. Aurora Reach seems the most useful to me
9. Use long shutter time, wide aperture and/or night mode when taking photos
10. Photos will look better than in real life, be prepared for that!











This post has been edited by mystalyzer: Dec 17 2023, 09:52 PM

ill sleep there 1 night

build a camp with kopi or beer also can

Was around -6C to -5C . Got build campfire also and was much better once the fire came up

u lucky man got extra money to travel

You’re really lucky, I was in tromso 2 weeks ago and barely got to see anything after spending hours in -17 temperatures

Hated the whole experience

It really depends on luck. My tour guide said I had really good conditions. Clear skies, decent KP. Also caught glimpse of slightly more reddish aurora.

Best part was the show started just when reached, so didn't even need to wait

Happy for you man!!

This was the forecast the day we went, only could see over Russia 🥲🥲🥲

That forecast means it is just too early. Green = low chance, orange = medium chance and red = high chance.
The heatmap will move westwards though. My forecast was something like the attached, except it had an additional red oval within the orange oval

you can tahan the temperature there?

Fuiyoo

How much total you paid liao ?

What causes northern lights?

total how much?
go there how many days?
can go by tour or must rent car?

Near Fukushima? Good luck TS, you will be remembered ... Owai Arora

Lucky can afford..

Happy for you, TS

Northern light reminds us how our sun constantly wana kill us

what color you see naked eyes

i thought aurora court

Waaa nak pergi some day.

Come into the light

How bright is the lights in naked eyes? Like how many percent of the photo?