Tonight’s pretty sky from North Pole, Alaska. Photos taken with a mirrorless camera. Tonight’s webcam photos Tonight, quite early! Before 10pm the aurora was overhead for a short time. The solar winds are rather low at 350 km/sec, but we have a nice Bt at 12 with a southward Bz. The rest of the night…
It is August! That means Alaskans are now on aurora watch. I should’ve posted this last week, but the cloudy weather in my area, near Fairbanks, covered up any potential aurora. You have probably heard that “aurora season” starts August 21 in Fairbanks, Alaska. This is true for tour guides because the sky is darker…
Welcome back the darker skies to Alaska! And that means we are on the hunt for auroras again. We left the season last spring with the strange cut off of the season. Locals were still around and looking up to the skies, but the tourism sliced off sharply. We were having the awesome aurora science…
The past few months have been mostly quiet, and / or cloudy weather in many locations. The auroras we did see were talked about in the ABN facebook group and in Aurora Tonight group. The past couple of nights have been very nice, so I asked if I could share a few photos. It feels…
Gorgeous auroras have been seen in Alaska the past few nights, and tonight is looking good also. We’ve had a nice south displaying aurora, so Anchorage and Kenai have enjoyed the show. Here is a timelapse from the webcam showing the North Pole, Alaska sky overnight April 2, 3, 2019
