Video: Lights Over Lapland (Aurora)

[pokerfan]

A powerful geomagnetic storm creates extreme auroras in the skies above Abisko National Park in Sweden. This video was shot in three hours by Lights Over Lapland photographer Chad Blakley.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Wow! Thank you, my dear pokerfan! Just gorgeous! n/t

[pokerfan]

4. It's one of the best aurora videos I've ever seen

About what I experienced in the middle of BC one time.

[gopiscrap]

2. Pretty cool

when I was a child and living in Germany our family went uthere once..it was awesome!!!

[jberryhill]

3. Ah Lapland

Long winter nights, reindeer games, and the traditional Lap dances...

A great place from start to Finnish.

[pokerfan]

5. reminds me

of MASH (the movie):

Hail to the Chief
He's the best of all the Trappers
He needs a queen
To sit upon his lapper.

[Worried senior]

6. Sure wish

I could have been there to see them. I live in northern WI and have seen the lights several times in the past but it's been quite a long time. Really would love to see them again before I die.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. So this is what it looks like to pass through a solar flare?

Wow, aren't such thing grand to behold?