Is there a website where you can find out what dates there will be northern lights in specific areas?

Question

I really want to plan a star gazing night for me and the girls sometime when there will be northern lights... but how do i know which night there will be any? Is there a website or something i can check?

Answer 1

You can type in google aurora prediction + the place where you live.

other sites

http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/auralert.html

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/

Here is where you can get predictions in your area .

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/aurora_predict/worldmap6.html

if you sign up for spaceweather.com's email list they usually have upcoming aurora's.

if you would like to have some help planning seeing anything else in the night sky ..

http://skytonight.com/observing/ataglance

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Answer 2

There is no way to tell in advance when there will be a bright aurora. The aurora is caused by charged particles from the sun interacting with earth's magnetic field. The aurora is generally brighter during the winter, but that's just a general guide. It doesn't help that we're approaching solar minimum, either. The likelihood of significant auroral displays for the next few years is pretty low.

Answer 3

Unless you're farther north that about 60 degrees, there's not much auroral activity in May. If you are in Alaska, the northern lights are at their most dazzling from December to March when nights are longest and the sky darkest; they can usually be seen even as far south as Juneau.

Northern Finland is also a good viewing place.

Answer 4

Aurora (northern lights) are produced by solar and geomagnetic activity. This is not so easy to forecast, but SpaceWeather.com may give you a day or two notice when northern lights are more likely.

Answer 5

No. As of now there is no way to predict the aurora borealis. The factors which go into its composition (including the strength of the solar wind, the composition of said wind at any given point, the particular orientation of the Van Allen belt at the moment of impact, etc) are either unknown, uncalculable, or unknowable until they actually happen. Sorry.

Best bet is to follow news about solar flares, as they will release additional material into the solar wind. Still, it is unreliable.

Answer 6

you may could desire to circulate out of city, as a results of fact with each and all the city lights it may be impossible to verify them. yet once you circulate north Montreal, the place there's no longer something, no little city, no lights then you definately could desire to be waiting to verify some, if the climatic situations are suited and all..

Answer 7

A site showing aurora predictions is
http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/

If you're generally interested in celestial bodies such as stars, planets, man-made satellites etc, then http://www.heavens-above.com/ might be of use.