What are chances of seeing northern lights?
Monitoring over many years the average chance of seeing the Northern Lights over a 4 night trip to Abisko is around 83%.
What is the process that leads to the aurora borealis australis?
This ethereal display – the aurora borealis or aurora australis, the northern or southern lights – is beautiful. What causes these lights to appear? When the charged particles from the sun strike atoms and molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, they excite those atoms, causing them to light up.
What’s the difference between aurora borealis and australis?
An aurora is a natural electric phenomenon that creates bright and colorful light displays in the sky. In the Arctic Circle, they are known as aurora borealis or the northern lights, while in the Antarctic Circle they are called aurora australis or the southern lights.
What causes the southern and northern lights?
Auroras. An aurora (plural aurorae or auroras; from the Latin word aurora forsunrise) is a natural light display in the sky, particularly in the high-latitude (arctic and antarctic) regions; it is caused by the collision of atmospheric atoms with energetic, charged particles coming from space.
What do you call the Southern Lights?
Northern lights are also called by their scientific name, aurora borealis, and southern lights are called aurora australis.
Are the northern lights brighter than the southern lights?
Other than geographical location, there really is no difference between the Northern Lights and the Southern Lights. They both take place over the polar regions and are basically the same phenomenon.
Where is the best place to see the Southern Lights in Victoria?
In Victoria, we’d suggest Point Lonsdale, Cape Schanck, Flinders, the south side of Phillip Island, Tidal River at Wilsons Promontory, Aireys Inlet, Anglesea or wherever there’s an uninterrupted horizon view. Closer to the city you can try the coast near Werribee South, Point Cook and up a hill in Meredith.
When can you see the Southern Lights in Australia?
In Australia, Spring occurs from September through November. Early spring is still a great time to see the southern lights, especially earlier in September. Aurora activity peaks around the spring equinox in September, as the state of the Earth’s magnetic field facilitates more solar particles to causing auroras.