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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Fantastic! I'd love to visit Northern Norway sometime to see them.
When I first saw film of the Northern Lights on TV many years ago I wasn't sure whether the movement of the lights was speeded up due to time lapse photography, but I gather that what is shown is the actual rate at which they change (in fact in the video at about 2:40 you can see the lights of a car moving along the road against the backdrop of other lights, and it seems to be going at normal speed).
Edit: Having looked at the additional information by the creator of the video on the vimeo site it seems that the video was produced from timelapse of individual stills, however he has tried to preserve the real-time speed of the northern lights. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Alastair - The Northern Lights move about quite visibly it's quite eerie. We've been hit with an awesome display every night this weekend so far.
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We went in January - this was filmed around Tromso. The 3 days we were there, we saw the lights faintly on one night, so it was a little dissapointing, but a fantastic trip nonetheless.
We went out with Guide Gunnar (check out his website), and it was while out snowshoeing with him on the Finnmark Plateu that we saw them. Even if you don't see them, the night time scenary is breathtaking. Unfortunately so is the cold and the local prices. It really is the land of the £10 beer, and £5 coffee. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| meh wrote: |
| Alastair - The Northern Lights move about quite visibly it's quite eerie. We've been hit with an awesome display every night this weekend so far. |
Indeed - My best Northern Lights spotting experience was in Boat of Garten in September.
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Been lucky enough to see them twice, but just the less spectacular green/greeny-white variety.
Once in Fernie, once on the plane back from Calgary, over Greenland. Absolutely spellbinding.
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Always sit on the port side of the plane flying back from Canada in case the Big Show is on, been lucky enough to see it 3 times - even got planephobic missus looking out the window. Would love to see it properly one day...
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Richard_Sideways, absolutely - been lucky enough to see them a few times - fantastic but not quite as spooky as St Elmo's Fire dancing round the cockpit windows. A different phenomenen similar colours but up close and personal
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| meh wrote: |
| Alastair - The Northern Lights move about quite visibly it's quite eerie. We've been hit with an awesome display every night this weekend so far. |
Lucky b'stards you are then. I noticed the geomagnetics were at 'storm' level most of the weekend too but we haven't been able to see the sky for cloud for about 3 months. 
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You don't need to go to northern Norway but i suppose it helps!
I've seen them four times now since 1988. Best display was in Dumfries but I've also had good displays from Hexham, Northumberland and Richmond North Yorkshire. Just head out into the countryside when you get a shout they may be on. It would help to set up a thread if you get word of solar activity.
My last display was about four years ago.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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roga, Very cool. Thanks. I have never seen them at all despite much time spent in Norway.
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You know it makes sense.
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I'm hoping to get in a bike tour of Norway at some point. A few friends did it years ago but never reached the top of the country.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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We went to the Lyngen Alps (near Tromso) on a ski tour last year and saw them on 5 nights out of seven
Absolutely stunning - just like the video. Even on night 5 we were setting the alarm clock in the small hours to get out of bed and go and stand outside in the bitter cold to see them again!
An incredible experience and we appreciate how lucky we were to have such great viewing!
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nordicfan, I think they're a lot more intense in Norway though than you see them in northern parts of the UK, after all you're that much closer to the area of the atmosphere they're actually in and in some places they're literally overhead. Certainly they haven't been as gobsmackingly large and bright when I've seen them in Scotland as the shots in that video more like a lovely coloured shimmering in the sky.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We're still getting hammered with them in Iceland at the moment, every night since Friday.
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FAQ
), I've seen them many times from the Moray coast in NE Scotland 
