How I discovered the northern lights.
Let me tell you a little story. Once upon a time, I (Tony) grew up in the North of England. In 2010 I made the decision to emmigrate to Finland. While living in the dark countryside, one night I looked up and seen northern lights for the first time in my life. My excitement was beyond containment! It wasn’t even that good of a show (compared to what I see frequently now in the Lapland skies), but it was certainly enough to spark something in me. Little did I know it, but that night was the start of a love affair between me and the aurora and it would shape my life from there on in.
So I started being addicted to aurora and I wanted to see it again and again, but living at a lowly latitude of 60°N on the South Coast of Finland, northern lights don’t make such a regular appearance as it does in Lapland. So I had to really get into the science of aurora and to know (or at least have idea) when it was likely to appear next. Northern Lights ultimately begin their journey on the Sun, so it is prudent to watch the sun and see if any solar activity happens that is likely to fling anything significant in Earths direction. Back then, we were in the middle of solar maximum (a time when the sun is most active) so as luck would have it, I seen quite a lot of aurora even at quite a low latitude.
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