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Hi there, I'm Lyonel, a Northern Lights Hunter and a Ma Student in Folkloristic. I have the pleasure of being a professional Northern Lights hunter with experience both in Iceland and in North Norway where I am now based. Don't hesitate to drop me a line if you want to have some tips on the matter or discuss anything Icelandic/Nordic related

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Northern Lights on a Freezing Night

I went on tour last night, with a buss full of hopeful guests. They were not the only one that had high hopes for the evening because according to the weather forecast and the solar activity readings it looked like this night could end up with some actual Northern Lights. Just like a couple of days ago, we meandered towards Þingvellir, mostly because the coast was to be quite cloudy this night and also because it´s not that far away from town and can thus be reached far more easily than other spots.Northern lights forecast in IcelandFind the best times and get directions with Iceland’s most

Northern Lights Tip 6: How to choose a Tour

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Northern Lights Tip 6: How to choose a Tour

Dear friends, I have to announce you that I finished the semester´s last exam. It was about old Icelandic and it featured translating parts of the younger Edda and a passage of the Laxdæla Saga were a guy named Ólaf receives scarlet garment from the king as a Christmas present. I do believe I managed not to fail it which means that I now am free to spend my days working on other thingies, and other thingies include indeed the present blog. As far as I remember I had another post to make about Northern Lights Hunting isn't it? Let´s get to work then! While my last post was about chasing the

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Northern Lights over Þingvellir

Okay guys, I know I haven't been that active this week but please, have mercy on me, I had a lengthy essay to write for one of my university course and my teacher said he would feed me to the sheep if I didn't finish on time. Also there has been very little to see in the skies lately. Solar activity has been extremely weak this week and I doubt many people saw anything in the Nordic skies lately.Northern lights forecast in IcelandFind the best times and get directions with Iceland’s most accurate Aurora forecast The good thing now, is that I finished my essay (it´s called "Seiðr in Mediev

Northern Lights Tip 5: How to find the Aurora by yourself

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Northern Lights Tip 5: How to find the Aurora by yourself

Hey folks, sorry for begin a bit late with this present post, but going out on actual tours plus spending long, solitary hours translating Old Norse has have taken much time in the past days...But today my teacher got sick and the class has been cancelled so I finally have some time to finally resume writing. Anyway. Now that you all know how to select the best period, the best places and the best conditions to be able to get a glimpse of the Lights, what´s next? Going out for an actual Northern Lights chase maybe? That would be ideal at least if you actually want to see the lights I thin

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Northern Lights Tour in Reykjanes

Hello folks ! It´s Sunday morning in Reykjavik and due to a severe snowstorm plus having way too much homework I am basically locked inside. But that´s not what I want to talk about today because I have much more interesting things to tell: Yesterday I got drafted for an impromptu northern lights tour with guests from Britain. They were here on a four-day trip and this Saturday happened to be (due to the storm), their last chance to see the Lights.Northern lights forecast in IcelandFind the best times and get directions with Iceland’s most accurate Aurora forecast Thankfully, the foreca

Northern Lights Tip 4: How to Deal with the Weather

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Northern Lights Tip 4: How to Deal with the Weather

Okay Folks, we´ve already learned when, where and in which conditions we have the greatest chances to see the Lights. There´s just one last factor to be preoccupied with right now and that´s a personal favorite (lies) of mine: The Weather !Northern lights forecast in IcelandFind the best times and get directions with Iceland’s most accurate Aurora forecast Please take not of the use of the word preoccupied because it really is the weather that can (and does!) decide on the outcome of a Hunt. When a Northern Lights Hunter stops to look at the skies, nine times out of ten it won't be to det

Northern Lights tip 3: How to Forecast an Aurora

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Northern Lights tip 3: How to Forecast an Aurora

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and let us start immediately with the third instalment of our practical Northern Lights tips: How to forecast an Aurora? Well, you cannot really, but there are several useful tools you can use to give you a general idea about the likelihood of seeing the Lights on a particular night.Northern lights forecast in IcelandFind the best times and get directions with Iceland’s most accurate Aurora forecast These tools are, basically, solar activity reports. The sun is, as we have established it earlier on, the source of all Northern (and Southern) Lights and an inc

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The Northern Lights Blog

Hello Folks, and welcome to my blog! Considering it´s my first post, I thought it would be fitting to explain what will be the purpose of this blog. I am a Northern Lights Hunter and Photograph, that´s my day (or rather my night) job and it has been so for some years already (in the winter at least). Over the years, I´ve come to realize that most ordinary folk (Southerly folk that is) have almost no idea what to do to catch a sight of a good Northern Light, let alone end with a good shot of it. Northern lights forecast in IcelandFind the best times and get directions with Iceland’s most acc

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The Norwegian Way

Hey guys ! It's been some time, I know, but I have been very busy working on my Master Thesis. To do so, I need to collect an absurd amount of data which in practice, lead me to enter the absurd quest to check every single Icelandic Saga ever written. I'm about two/third done but it took quite a lot of time just to get there you can guess. Also, I relocated in my beloved Tromsö, in Arctic Norway, where I am again, spending my evenings freezing in desolate fjords in search for the Northern Lights. Last night we actually had quite a great night: Despite a very low level of Aurora activity

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Northern Lights on a Freezing Night

Northern Lights Tip 6: How to choose a Tour

Northern Lights over Þingvellir

Northern Lights Tip 5: How to find the Aurora by yourself

Northern Lights Tour in Reykjanes

Northern Lights Tip 4: How to Deal with the Weather

Northern Lights tip 3: How to Forecast an Aurora

The Northern Lights Blog

The Norwegian Way

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