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Northern lights above Iceland end of April 2024

Published on May 3, 2024. Last updated on May 3, 2024

I was outside just before 12am on April 26 to 27 because I wanted to shoot some photos of the Hallgrímskirkja church of Reykjavik when I noticed behind me that the sky still looked like sunset.

I checked the ‘Sky Tonight’ app to see where the celestial objects were, particularly the sun and the moon, and noticed that the sun was going to be in the nautical twilight zone before rising again and the moon wasn’t going to rise at all. It was the first time for me to experience this so I was fascinated. But if that wasn’t enough, I noticed some clouds in a clear night sky, and it reminded me of a tip someone I met earlier this year before I went to Antarctica. She went to see the northern lights the previous year, and told me that most of the times it will seem like clouds with your naked eye, but when you pull your phone out and look through it via the camera, you’ll see the lights; and there it was, the aurora borealis above me.

At first, it was just like a grey cloud with the naked eye, but after a while it started to light up so brightly for a moment that you can see the green colors. It was a magical.