Northern Lights is the name used for the Aurora Borealis seen in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Northern Lights is the name used for the Aurora Borealis seen in the Northern Hemisphere.
Don´t miss out on the Northern Lights.
The unique alarm system is available for only 5 euros.
Particles are continually being released into space from the sun. The flow of these so called solar wind particles also end up in the Earth’s atmosphere. There, the auroral light-generating process is basically the same as, for example, a fluorescent lamp: from the top-down, the electrons falling in the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field collide with oxygen atoms and nitrogen molecules in the ionosphere, which are then excited momentarily into a state of higher energy. In the dissolution of the excited state, the excitation energy is released as photons, i.e. light.
The speeds of the hundreds of particles arriving into the upper atmosphere are up to 1000 kilometres per second. The colour of the light resulting from the dissolution of the excited state depends on the quality of the excited particles and the energy that’s gained through the collisions: in the oxygen excited state, green and red light is generated, while nitrogen molecules receive and emit a bluish-toned amount of quantum energy.
The earth’s dipole-like magnetic field directs the charged particles towards the areas surrounding the atmospheric magnetic poles, which are called auroral ovals. The exact location, latitude and auroral intensity of the areas of Northern Lights at each longitude sphere varies according to, among others, the prevalent solar activity and the resultant magnetic activity of the Earth’s near-space.
The annular ovals are always present in each hemisphere, but daylight prevents us from seeing the midday auroras outside the darkest regions of polar winters. The majority of the auroral zones in both the northern and the southern hemisphere are located in uninhabited areas. Typically, the Northern Lights can only be viewed in the latitudes of northern Fennoscandia, Svalbard, Iceland, northern Canada, Alaska and Siberia.
Source: Finnish Meteorological Institute
http://aurorasnow.fmi.fi/public_service/
Particles are continually being released into space from the sun. The flow of these so called solar wind particles also end up in the Earth’s atmosphere. There, the auroral light-generating process is basically the same as, for example, a fluorescent lamp: from the top-down, the electrons falling in the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field collide with oxygen atoms and nitrogen molecules in the ionosphere, which are then excited momentarily into a state of higher energy. In the dissolution of the excited state, the excitation energy is released as photons, i.e. light.
The speeds of the hundreds of particles arriving into the upper atmosphere are up to 1000 kilometres per second. The colour of the light resulting from the dissolution of the excited state depends on the quality of the excited particles and the energy that’s gained through the collisions: in the oxygen excited state, green and red light is generated, while nitrogen molecules receive and emit a bluish-toned amount of quantum energy.
The earth’s dipole-like magnetic field directs the charged particles towards the areas surrounding the atmospheric magnetic poles, which are called auroral ovals. The exact location, latitude and auroral intensity of the areas of Northern Lights at each longitude sphere varies according to, among others, the prevalent solar activity and the resultant magnetic activity of the Earth’s near-space.
The annular ovals are always present in each hemisphere, but daylight prevents us from seeing the midday auroras outside the darkest regions of polar winters. The majority of the auroral zones in both the northern and the southern hemisphere are located in uninhabited areas. Typically, the Northern Lights can only be viewed in the latitudes of northern Fennoscandia, Svalbard, Iceland, northern Canada, Alaska and Siberia.
Source: Finnish Meteorological Institute
http://aurorasnow.fmi.fi/public_service/
The probability of seeing the Northern Lights
According to our research, there is a good chance of seeing the Northern Lights in the following locations. Alta, Gallivare, Inari, Iso-Syöte, Ivalo, Kemi-Tornio, Kiruna, Levi, Lofoten, Murmansk, Narvik, Pallas, Pyha, Reykjavik, Riksgransen, Rovaniemi, Ruka, Saariselkä, Tromso, Utsjoki, Yllas. You can now buy your own Northern Lights alarm for these destinations.
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