Wonders of Nature Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights This webpage is dedicated to observing aurora borealis or northern lights. From the Netherlands the auroral lights are only visible during the maximum of a solar cycle, so once in roughly 11 years. But a couple of years around the maximum you will have change to observe the northern lights from Holland too. If you like to have much more change to observe the northern lights then you have to travel to very northerly locations. Such as the Lofoten islands in the high north of Norway! And you can increase your changes even more when a so called Coronal Hole passes by near the center of the suns surface. Lofoten, march 2009 De Bilt, january 2005 Houdringe, october 2003 De Bilt, march 1989 The sun is starting "to wake up again" so we are anxiously awaiting the first CME to produce a nice Auroral display over the Netherlands! Aurora Predictions and Observations 24/25 october 2011 : spectacular aurora's over large parts of the northern hemisphere 20-27 march 2009 : aurorachase at the PolarLightCenter (Rob Stammes), Laukvik, Lofoten, Norway 21 january 2005 : images of some fine aurora taken from my home at De Bilt 30 october 2003 : images taken from location Houdringe, De Bilt of an extremely bright and colorfull aurora! 25 september 2001 11 april 2001 31 march 2001 28 july 2000 15 july 2000 13 march 1989 : two old-fashioned analog images of the bright aurora at De Bilt 20 years ago! External Links Aurora / Northern Lights (in Dutch by Roy Keeris) Aurora (WikipediA) Polarlightcenter - Lofoten - Straumnes (by Rob Stammes and Therese van Nieuwenhoven) Polarlicht-Chat Aurora Borealis (by Tom Eklund) Aurora Galery (Spaceweather.com) Nature Weather Atmosphere Astronomy Disclaimer & Contact