| 16/4 2024: I
take a trip to Hindås, to test my new 50mm cameralens for starfields.
It proves difficult, too bright with half moon. Also, as I begin, I can
see a red background color in the sky. Time to swith to my wideangle
lens and get the beginning aurora instead. An unexpected, but pleasant
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| 16/12 2023:
I take a trip a bit to the north, Axmar Brygga, between Gävle and
Söderhamn. An expected CME does not arrive and Kp stays low alla
evening. Still, for quite some time, the aurora is active and gives me
a load of nice pictures. Well well... Could have been a lot better, but also a lot worse... |  | |  |  | |  |  |
| 25/11 2023:
With a Kp between 4 and 5 and a full moon, chances for a good aurora
are slim in southern Sweden. But I use my gut feeling and go to Hindås,
just one hour north of my home. In the beginning, nothing much happens.
The aurora is barely visible by the naked eye. Then, around 19:15, the
sky explodes with a strong lightshow! Green and red are clearly
visible. This is on par with, or even better, than many of the auroras
I have seen up north. And if the moon hadn't been there, well... |  |  | 
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| 13/9 2023:
This time I got lucky! A CME unexpectedly hit Earth towards evening.
But it was cloudy so I went to bed. At about 01:30 I woke up, went to
the kitchen for a glass of water, looked out and saw an aurora in
a clear sky! I didn't need long to dress, get my camera and go to a
good spot outside Grimsås. |  | |  | | | 23/3 2023:
Tonigh Kp unexpectedly reaches 6, while the weather forecast gives no
hope for clear skies anywhere. But, as it gets dark, it clears up
completely so I can
go looking right at home. This is the best
aurora so far this season, and so far to the south! As an extra bonus I
also can see Steve, for the first time in my life! Jackpot! |  | |  |  | | 27/2 2023:
One coronal hole plus one CME at the same time produces a solar stream
above 800km/s! With a Kp 6 I get this picture in Hindås, one hour north
of my house. Nice! |  | | 3/10 2022:
A very short, but strong substorm! I was quite lucky to get it. The
picture is taken just a few minutes from my home in Grimsås. Very
unusual to get this strong light so far to the south! |  | | 4/9 2022:
A large coronal hole have produced Kp6, but in the daytime in Sweden.
With smaller Kp numbers I go 2 hours to the north, to lake Skagern.
There I get
this impressive lightshow! Wow! |  | |  |  | | 5/3 2022:
New coronal hole on the sun, producing a Kp5 in the afternoon. That's
enough for me to go for clear skies at Askersund, still in the south of
Sweden. A substorm picked up before 20:00, producing the best auroras I have seen for some time, and so far south! |  | |  |  | | 10/2 2022: With a Kp 5, I take my car out of rain towards clear skies. I find them
north of Göteborg, on the island of Tjörn. It's a decent aurora, concidering that there is a moonlight. |  | | 15/1 2022: I get awakened just after midnight by a sms from my brother: "Auroras!"
Didn't expect this, and with almost full moon! Not this far south!
Apparently the Kp reached around 6. Missed the focus a bit on my
pictures, sorry about that. |  | | 31/10 2021:
With a forecasted Kp7 I take a trip to Härnösand, together with a good
friend who hasn't seen an aurora. We have good hope, but the CME is
late and saturday evening produces nothing. After some reasoning we
decide to stay up here for another day and spend one more night in
Hudiksvall. The CME arrives on sunday, weaker than expected and towards
evening we only get Kp 3-4. First we chase clear skies close to
Söderhamn and later we return to Hudiksvall, where the weather is now
better. It's there we get the strongest auroras. Still, not what
we expected at first but at least we don't go home emptyhanded. |  | |  | | | 25/11 2020: At
last, after more than one year I was able to see an aurora again! This
time accompanied by Heini, who had never seen an aurora before. You can
guess the joy when this substorm appeared, in the south of Sweden! The picture is taken at the lake Skagern, Kp 4,67. |  | |  | | | | | | 25/10 2019:
It's been very long since I saw a nice aurora now. I go by car to
Hudiksvall on friday afternoon and get rewarded with this. But, the
aurora is weaker than I had hoped. With a solar wind on 600km/s+ I had
expected more. Fun anyway, to visit the north and to see an aurora
again... |  |
| 28/2 2019:
It was a long time since I saw an aurora. But this night there was one!
Didn't go north, the picture is taken from Grimsås. With a Kp of
around 4 this is quite ok, so far to the south. |  |
| 7/10 2018:
After visiting an astronomical conference in Skellefteå, I stay one
more dag up in the north. The forecast is a strong aurora on sunday
evening. Well, I don't get dissapointed. It's a beautiful aurora all
evening, but just before 22:00 the sky "explodes" into a cascade of
green, blue, even white and pink, very strong and fast. This is
probably the most beautiful aurora I have ever seen! |  | |  |  | |  |  |
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24/3 2018:
I take a plane to Bodö with a forecast of Kp5. It doesn't turn
out
that way, Kp stayes mostly at 3, sometimes 4. Anyway, the
aurora
is quite beautiful, this far to the north. (North of the polar circle) |
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16/3 2018:
Since the solarwind continues, I take my car up to the north on friday
afternoon. After an 8h drive I reach Härnösand around 22:00. The aurora
is nice, but at 01:00 it really gets going. I'm glad I
persisted,
staying outside in the cold, not giving up! This is the best I have
experienced in this season. |
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7/11
2017:
Quite unexpectedly, Kp climbs to 7. Even in the moonshine the aurora
gets a strong outburst for a short while. It's like in the north! The
pictures are taken in Hestra, close to home. |
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14/10
2017: On saturday morning Dante and me decide to take a
trip to the
north. The forecast is Kp4, nothing extreme. But the weather should be
clear at some places towards the north. We choose Rönnskär close to
Hudiksvall, reaching it in the evening. We get what we expect but not
more. However, we are happy with it, a fairly strong and fast
moving aurora at its most active period. |
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14/9
2017: After rain, rain and more rain, finally an aurora
that I
can see trough a hole in the clouds! Kp reaches over 6 and I can test
my new camera, Nikon D5600. |
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4/1
2017: A short visit in Bodø, Norway starts up really bad.
Instead of
clear skies as predicted, it's cloudy. Instead of a Kp 5 as
predicted, there is a 2. I'm starting to wonder if the whole trip will
be wasted.
But
as the clouds start to disperse, a nice aurora developes and makes me a
lot happier.Then, around 22:30 the sky suddenly "explodes" and I get
some magnificent corona pictures. The aurora is green, white
and
pink then. |
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31/12
2016: Instead of the usual new year fireworks I give
myself a journey
to Härnösand chasing auroras. This time I'm not dissapointed! With two
peaks, one hour apart, of a strong, fast moving aurora the evening is a
total success! |
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9/12
2016: Greetings from Gussö outside Luleå in north Sweden!
I'm visiting
Ulf Jonsson and the first picture shows his house. The aurora doesn't
dissapoint, a beatiful lightshow especially in the early evening! |
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