April 2019

April 2nd

• Guests / Country: 3 from USA and Costa Rica.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / rain.
  
• Destination / weather: Barduelva / Salangen / part clear / clear.
  
• Aurora activity: 5/10.
  
• Aurora show: Several bands across, dancing with red and purple colors curtains, curls, spikes.
  
• Tour km: 370.
  
• Tour hrs: 8,5.

April 5th

• Guests / Country: 3 from Norway and Costa Rica.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Clear.
  
• Destination / weather: Grøtfjord / clear.
  
• Aurora activity: 8/10.
  
• Aurora show: all over, far south, curtains, curls, an intense show with crazy dancing in 3 colors, corona.
  
• Tour km: 95.
  
• Tour hrs: 6,5.

A very special night out for chasing the Northern lights with my two guests from Costa Rica and guide colleague, Marcus.

What really happen on the sky this night..?

Tonight NASA's AZURE mission successfully launched 2 sounding rockets back-to-back from the Andøya Space Center in Norway. They released clouds of glowing tracers into the upper atmosphere (the background green is the real aurora though) to study and track the flow of neutral and charged particles in the ionosphere. Each dot is at a different altitude and notice they migrate at a different speed and direction!

Please read it on National News >>

April 6th

• Guests / Country: 10 from USA, Malaysia, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / snow.
  
• Destination / weather: Kvalsundet / GuideGunnar`s Camp Aurora / part clear / snow / clear.
  
• Aurora activity: 4/10.
  
• Aurora show: A couple of bands on the north sky, curls, spikes.
  
• Tour km: 230.
  
• Tour hrs: 7.

April 7th

• Guests / Country: 12 from USA, Germany, South Korea, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Clear.
  
• Destination / weather: Sommarøy / Ersfjordbotn / clear / cloudy / part clear.
  
• Aurora activity: 6/10.
  
• Aurora show: A couple of bands on the north sky, curls, spikes, then couple of bright bands across the sky, 2 colors dancing.
  
• Tour km: 115.
  
• Tour hrs: 5.

My 13. Aurora season is over, little earlier than first planned cause lack of bookings...

I really hope more Aurora travelers like to explore the most beautiful time of the Aurora season, by visiting at the beginning (September) and at the end (mid-March - mid-April) of the Aurora season. We call the period for Equinox Aurora - when the activity is more colorful and more powerful!