See The Northern Lights Twenty Twelve Solar Maximum Cycle
Posted by admin | Travel Insurance | Posted on October 17th, 2011
Following a program that we watched on the television, our family got talking about what it might be like to see the northern lights for ourselves. The documentary that we saw was about a certain celebrity who fulfilled her own desire to witness for herself the wonders of the Aurora Borealis to use its Latin name. Other programs on the same subject have spoken about the likelihood of seeing the vista from the northern Isles of Scotland, but it seems unlikely that they will be as spectacular to view compared to areas within the Arctic Circle. From what those documentaries disclosed about the whole experience, it would seem that there is no absolute guarantee of seeing the display and certainly not outside what is referred to as the Aurora Zone. Other factors that have to be taken into consideration are that of timing with certain times of the year being better than others. Fortunately with the aid of scientific research the chances are much better with the added expectation of increased solar activity predicted in advance.
So there is good reason to use a decent tour operator who is wise to all the foregoing, they will be able to properly advise their clients when the best time to book is. The Sunday Times wrote an article recently wherein they revealed an area in the Finnish Lapland reserved as a Northern Lights hotspot, the resulting influx of enquiries resulted in five extra viewing dates being added to the agents calendar. There are times when the lights display really does take off making the experience extra special. Twenty twelve has been seen as a time when the Aurora will be at its best for fifty years because of the sun approaching the climax of its eleven year ‘solar Maximum’ cycle, according to NASA. They say that the sun’s ‘equatorial magnetic field’ is spinning much faster than it normally does.