With that in mind, here are some general tips on how to see Northern Lights tonight and throughout the current season:1. No — if you decide to wait for the Northern Lights to come to you, you could be waiting a lifetime. Places like northern Norway, northern Sweden, northern Finland, Iceland, Alaska and northern Canada offer not more frequent opportunities but get the best views of the aurora overhead. The Northern Lights (aurora borealis) are most easily seen from September through March from across Alaska, northern Canada, northern Scandinavia and northern Russia, purely because there are more hours of darkness and darker nights. The Southern Lights (aurora australis) can be glimpsed most easily between March and September south of New Zealand.

Source: Forbes November 17, 2024 00:30 UTC