Which is the best place to see the northern lights (aurora borealis)?
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July 28th, 2017
Alaska, Iceland, Canada, or Sweden?
Or some other place?
Does the choice depend on time of year?
Does the “best place” depend on the part of the cycle we’re on? I understand that there’s a 13-year cycle.
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Any latitude north of 30°.
Way north, think Norway, Sweden, Alaska, Canada, and if I remember correctly in winter?? You should google it. You want clear dark skies. That’s for a more sure bet, but they are also visible outside of the winter months and sometimes seen “south” (NYS, OH, IL) during large flares. That’s quite random though.
I remember once reading about hotels that market their property as being great to view the northern lights. Cold places. Lol. I’d like to take a vacation and show it to my husband.
I’ve seen them in upstate NY in the summer. I was a kid. It must have been a very big, and rather rare, solar occurrence.
I’ll be following the Q, thanks for asking it.
I live in the interior of BC Canada and have had some great shows by the Northern lights, one night coming up the Fraser Canyon the lights were so strong I just had to pull over and enjoy the show,if I remember right it was about mid fall.
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Is Fraser Canyon northeast of Vancouver?
Do you remember the month or the season when you saw them?
As I said it was mid fall, and yes the canyon is northeast of Vancouver, google a road map and look for highway 1,also known as the TransCanada follow it out of the coast to hope where the highway splits into 3 highways and follow one from there, half an hour on 1 out of Hope you enter the Canyon and a very beautiful drive.
I saw them in Iceland in October. It was not an impressive show but apparently the best one for several days. Very spotty – in a photography there the woman told me of someone who had gone to seven places in the world to see them with no luck. But certainly the North in the winter is the best place to try.
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