The sky had been clear all day on our second day in Ilulissat, so we were really hoping for a good Aurora show that night. After getting back from our sunset hike, we waited until it got dark and then kept looking outside every half an hour or so. But it just wasn’t there. Disappointed, I decided to leave the others to go back to my accommodation to sleep at around 11 PM, thinking that we would not get the chance to see them that night.
But when I stepped outside the door, I was amazed. There they were! Brighter and greener than I’d seen them before here on Greenland! I called the others, who at first didn’t believe me, but then were equally in awe when they saw what I was staring at.
We quickly got our camera gear ready and set off for a less light polluted part of the city, so we could get some good shots. And there we stayed for over an hour, defeating the cold and our tired bodies.
It was magical. The lights were quite bright, probably up to Kp4 or Kp5, and we could see them moving fast as they were dancing their way across the night sky. We were there for so long, just staring at the sky and taking hundreds of photos. We didn’t want to leave, but eventually we had to pull ourselves away from it as we were getting too cold. But the show was not over yet.
I went back to my accommodation, where I looked outside the window and saw that the Auroras were still dancing. I fell asleep while watching the show from my warm and comfy bed. It was the most magical night.
8 COMMENTS
Pasargad
6 years agoThat’s mean “Aurora”
Auroras are produced when
the magnetosphere is sufficiently disturbed by the solar wind that the trajectories of charged particles in both solar wind and magnetospheric plasma, mainly in the form of electrons and protons, precipitate them into the upper atmosphere thermosphere/exosphere… due to Earth’smagnetic field, where their energy is lost.
Pasargad
6 years agoThat’s mean Aurora…..
Auroras are produced when the magnetosphere is sufficiently disturbed by the solar wind that the trajectories of charged particles in both solar wind and magnetospheric plasma, mainly in the form of electrons and protons, precipitate them into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere)….. due to Earth’s magnetic field, where their energy is lost.
Ann
6 years agoBreathtaking!
Melissa Cherry
6 years agoThanks Ann! 😀
Pasargad
6 years agoWow…. I love this beautiful photos ??.
The faroe islands ??are my dream land after my countrie. I will live there someday….
Although these islands are part of Denmark??, they are autonomous, and have to get a visa to enter .And the turrist visa fee is 200 euros. But i think the Danish passport do not have need visa?
Melissa Cherry
6 years agoThank you so much! But this is not the Faroe Islands, this is Greenland 😀 hopefully you’ll get to see both countries someday!
Pasargad
6 years agoYes of course……My comment did not matter..?
The Greenland government?? is like faroe islands?? ?….
But your photos of Ayurvedic Green really surprised me. You know I’m interested to cosmology and physics ??.
Melissa Cherry
6 years agoYeah true! 🙂
I’m sorry, what is Ayurvedic Green? 🙂