While I had technically seen the Aurora when I was very young, I had never been ready with my camera to catch it. While I was in Sweden, I was constantly monitoring the solar and auroral activity to see if we'd get any action. It was a bit frustrating because in April at Östersund's latitude there isn't official night time, so the sky was never properly dark. Despite this, on two nights, the 6th and the 14th of April, the aurora was visible! Barely to the human eye however, just as grey swirls in the sky. But to the DSLR they looked fantastic.
On the 7th, the colour was brighter but the aurora was just as bands over the northern horizon. On the 14th it stretched across the sky directly overhead dancing away. The bands seemed to stretch from west-east, as if the aurora bands had pushed down to our latitude.
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