Northern Aurora Borealis
The Northern Lights season starts here about mid-August, as soon as it is dark again and goes until about mid-April.
The photos are all taken themselves. From our house, the log cabin and the lodge where the B&B and the Camping are. You see we have a great location to watch the Lady Aurora dance.
It always takes some luck to be able to admire this natural phenomenon, as many factors play together.
How are the Northern Lights created?
It needs solar activity which means; The sun emits so-called solar winds full of energetic particles such as electrons and protons and a little helium. These solar winds take around 18 – 30 hours to reach the Earth’s magnetic field. But the particles cannot reach the Earth's surface completely because they hit the magnetic field line beforehand.
Through this encounter the Lorenzkraft acts. When the energetic particles combine with the Earth's own atoms, the northern lights are formed.
To see this magic, you need a dark and clear (cloud-free) sky.
This reaction takes place at an altitude of 100-400 km, far above the cloud cover.
Northern lights can have different colors. Depending on the height at which the particles meet. At 100km altitude pink, in 200km green, in 300km red and and 400km violet and blue. Because of the eye’s high sensitivity to green light and relatively high concentration of oxygen, green auroras are most commonly observed.
The northern lights can sometimes only be seen for a few minutes with longer breaks in between but also up to several hours
Northern Lights occur in 4 splinter types: corona, curtains, quiet arches and ribbons
