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On any given night, I/we/you may or may not catch an aurora display due to an infinite amount of variables so, to me, it’s all about the hunt. That’s a lot of sunspots! The sun is definitely ramping into solar maximum phase, which should mean more aurora activity.

Propagating sunspots, check out the black & white image of the sun in the lower part of this page.

The nature of the breathtaking colors that then develop are dependant on the type of gasses that collide.

KP index is the next thing I look at, the bigger the better!!! Northern lights, also referred to as aurora, occur when gaseous particles from the sun enter the earth’s atmosphere and collide.

Negative & Positive cancels out allowing charged particles to stream toward Earth and blammo, 40-to-300 miles above our heads a wonder of the universe happens ~ in color ~ the AURORA!!! A negative polarity (-Bz) solar wind impacting the positive polarity Earth (that’s us, the big bar magnet in the sky) causes a coupling to occur and the energy flows through us. You just want that to be a negative number, period.

Great quick visual to show if auroras are tame or wild. Between mid-April and mid-August, the night skies are just too bright for visitors to see the aurora well. These months form the official Fairbanks, Alaska aurora season, when the night sky is dark enough for visible aurora displays.

The green donut-ring aurora forecast simulation provided by NOAA (I’m in Alaska, USA so that’s our go-to). The best time of year to see the Northern Lights in Alaska is from late August to late April, in Fairbanks at least.(Saw them one night while fishing the Kenai River in June so it is. Fairbanks sits at 64° N and enjoys sporadic Northern Lights, though its best to. As an aurora enthusiast, here’s the main things I look for at a glance on this page: The sky has to be dark which means the lights are hard to see in summer. We do know, however, that the Northern Lights are best seen in Alaska between 65° north and 70° north latitude.