Posts: 50
Threads: 0
Joined: Jul 2014
Reputation:
0
Northern lights trip
07-28-2014, 07:23 AM
I'm thinking about taking a trip to see the northern lights in Iceland. It's something I've always wanted to do.
I was wondering what time would be best to go? I'm thinking maybe March 2015. Have any of you been?
Posts: 629
Threads: 0
Joined: Jan 2014
Reputation:
8
Northern lights trip
07-28-2014, 11:30 AM
I was there in December. Drive you about 2 hours out into the country side. You sit there for 3 hours, then drive back.
If you don't see anything, then they will take you out there for free the next day.
I cant remember how much it was.
There was a surprising amount of tourists there.
Having beers at the Blue Lagoon in winter is pretty awesome.
The less fucks you give, the more fucks you get.
Posts: 828
Threads: 0
Joined: Aug 2013
Reputation:
115
Northern lights trip
07-28-2014, 11:38 AM
I dropped the cash, and hardly saw any lights. It was 99% black sky for 2-3 hours. A hint sliver of green for a few minutes. Very anti-climactic.
It's too unreliable. They call it a "mystery" tour, because it's a mystery as to if you'll actually see them or not.
Posts: 510
Threads: 0
Joined: Dec 2012
Northern lights trip
07-28-2014, 03:51 PM
This is something I need to see one day.
About 10 years ago, in mid-winter, I was driving in upstate NY, around midnight, and the sky started turning bright red.
Dozens of cars pulled over on the side of the road and people were staring at the sky as it became a deeper shade of red.
It was incredible, and very unexpected, no one thought the aurora could be seen that far south...but apparently, it can.
Posts: 2,786
Threads: 0
Joined: Sep 2013
Reputation:
36
Northern lights trip
07-28-2014, 03:55 PM
That'd be pretty awesome. I've seen it a number of times from Michigan's Upper Peninsula right over Lake Superior...pretty frickin amazing when they streak up more than halfway across the sky above your head.
(not my pic)
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Posts: 643
Threads: 0
Joined: Jul 2013
Reputation:
13
Northern lights trip
07-28-2014, 04:02 PM
Aurorae come from something that we wouldn't be able to live without (Earth's magnetosphere). I'd say they're a very good thing to see despite their aesthetic qualities.
Posts: 5,822
Threads: 0
Joined: Oct 2011
Reputation:
72
Northern lights trip
07-28-2014, 04:30 PM
Its not as random as you'd think. Canada has a space weather agency that does solar weather predictions, keep an eye out for high storms and then go looking for the lights then.
http://www.spaceweather.gc.ca/index-eng.php
Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? Psalm 2:1 KJV
Posts: 5,945
Threads: 0
Joined: Aug 2011
Reputation:
301
Northern lights trip
07-28-2014, 05:26 PM
Every year hundreds of Japanese newly weds flock to the Yukon to shag in tipis under the northern lights, apparently its good luck to conceive that way.