Web Directory

» Alaska Science Forum: Aurora
   Large article archive by a variety of authors offering explanations of phenomena related to aurora.
   http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/aurora.html

» Asahi Aurora Classroom
   Provides plenty of information on the aurora including how and where to see it, FAQ, myths, images and scientific facts.
   http://www.gi.alaska.edu/asahi/

» Aurora Borealis Page
   Includes various image galleries, tips on spotting the lights, an FAQ, and related links.
   http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html

» Aurora Borealis Photo
   Offers prints for sale by Fairbanks, Alaska-based photographer Jack Finch. Galleries are organized by type and color.
   http://www.mosquitonet.com/~abp/

» Aurora Gallery
   Photos from many photographers and places, sorted by auroral event.
   http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_all.html

» Aurora November 2001
   Pictures taken during the big storm on 5 November, 2001, in Iowa.
   http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~krk/auroraNov_2001.html

» Aurora Urbanis - Northern Lights in Urban Landscapes
   A photo series on the Northern Lights in the city of Tampere at Southern Finland
   http://www.sebastiangreger.net/photo/auroraurbanis/

» AuroraWatch
   Image gallery and explanations with updated solar activity chart.
   http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/

» Auroral Acoustics
   Project to study the sounds and acoustical effects related to geomagnetic storms and aurora borealis.
   http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/projects/aurora/

» Auroral Activity Index
   NOAA POES - Auroral Activity from NOAA/TIROS.
   http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html

» Auroral Image Gallery
   Auroral image gallery, including images from space.
   http://odin.gi.alaska.edu/lumm/Pictures/

» Auroral Image of the Day
   X-ray images of the auroral oval from space (PIXIE on POLAR)
   http://pixie.spasci.com/img_dir/internal/image_of_the_day.html

» Auroral Particles and Imagery
   Stories, data from DMSP satellite, movies from space, links and publications, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
   http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/Aurora/

» Auroras 2000.com : Presented by the Exploratorium
   Guide to the Northern and Southern Lights. News, NASA images, forecasts, and background on the aurora.
   http://www.exploratorium.edu/auroras/

» Auroras Now!
   Shows images from an all-sky camera operated by the Sodankylä geophysical observatory in Finland. Part of the ESA Space Weather Applications Pilot Project.
   http://aurora.fmi.fi/public_service/

» Automatic Geophysical Observatories
   All-sky images and keagrams from South Pole.
   http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/atmos/data/

» Borealis 2000
   Photo gallery of aurora borealis, meteor showers, and planetary alignments hosted by photographer Dirk Obudzinski. Includes news and sky forecasts.
   http://borealis2000.com/

» Comparative Aeronomy in the Solar System
   Workshop, discussion group, links for topics related to aurora on other planets in the solar system.
   http://www.bu.edu/csp/uv/cp-aeronomy/aeronomy-sol-sys.html

» Fast Auroral SnapshoT Explorer (FAST)
   Polar orbiting satellite for auroral studies.
   http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/fast/

» GEDDS Allsky Image Display
   Real-time auroral images from Poker Flat, Alaska (during darkness in winter only).
   http://gedds.pfrr.alaska.edu/allsky/realtime.htm

» Geophysical Institute - Aurora Forecast
   Daily during the winter. Summer has only forecasts when significant magnetic storms happen.
   http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/

» Geophysical Institute: Aurora FAQ
   Dirk Lummerzheim provides the answers to a variety of questions people have asked about the aurora.
   http://odin.gi.alaska.edu/FAQ/

» Home of the Northern Lights
   Image Gallery of aurora photos, instruction and tips for taking auroral photos
   http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Curtis/aurora/aurora.html

» How to Find and Photograph Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
   Describes equipment, techniques, prediction of visibility. Includes a brief description of the phenomenon and some photographs.
   http://www.venhaus1.com/photographaurora.html

» Hubble Images of Jupiter's Aurora
   Jupiter's auroral emissions and small auroral spots associated with the flux tube of jovian satellites.
   http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/hst6.html

» Jupiter's Aurora
   Images taken by the Galileo spacecraft.
   http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/captions/jupiter/aurora.htm

» Kjell Henriksen Observatory
   Optical observatory on Svalbard (Spitzbergen), associated with University of Alaska and University of Tromsø. Includes information about how to get there, data and observarions, and the history of the observatory.
   http://kho.unis.no/

» Latest IMAGE-WIC (wide-band imaging camera) image
   Real-time images of the entire auroral oval from space.
   http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/image/latest_wic.html

» Museum of Time
   Time lapse photography of aurora (Netherlands).
   http://www.angelfire.com/movies/timelapse/

» NASA: Carrington Super Flare
   Account of a solar flare observed by Richard Carrington on September 1, 1859, and the subsequent effects seen on earth.
   http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/06may_carringtonflare.htm?

» NOAA POES (Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite)
   Real-time auroral activity derived from satellite.
   http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/

» Neptune Aurora
   There is even aurora on Neptune.
   http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link=/neptune/magnetosphere/N_aurora.html

» Painted sky: the aurora
   Image gallery of auroral photos from the ground, from space, and graphics related to aurora.
   http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/auroras.html

» Poker Flat Research Range
   Information for range users, real time data and images of aurora (only when it's dark in Alaska), and educational material on the aurora.
   http://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/aurora/index.html

» Polar Visible Imaging Investigations/Visible Imaging System
   Real-time images from space, gallery of movies, data, instrument description.
   http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/www/vis/

» Portable Auroral Imager
   Data, images, and instrument description of a high resolution auroral imager at the University of Calgary.
   http://www.phys.ucalgary.ca/~trondsen/pai/

» Proton Precipitation into the Atmosphere
   Workshops, discussion group, links.
   http://www.bu.edu/csp/uv/proton/proton.html

» Rice Space Institute Outreach
   Links to educational space weather pages, including the "Museums Teaching Planet Earth".
   http://space.rice.edu/RSI/epolinks.html

» Saturn's Aurora
   High quality Hubble Space Telescope images.
   http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1998/05/

» Secrets of the Polar Aurora
   Detailed overview of the polar aurora, including where to see it, its causes, its relation to solar and interplanetary phenomena, the type of light, artificial auroras.
   http://www.phy6.org/Education/aurora.htm

» Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory
   Observations and research related to northern lights, aeronomy, atmospheric chemistry, and related science.
   http://www.sgo.fi/

» Sondrestrom Research Facility
   Auroral observatory with a large complement of instruments (including incoherent scatter radar) on the west coast of Greenland.
   http://isr.sri.com/

» The Aurora Page
   Offers an aurora forecast, related links, and image galleries.
   http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/

» The Northern Lights
   Documentary video examining the phenomenon of the northern lights or aurora borealis.
   http://www.nfb.ca/film/northern_lights/

» Tromsø Auroral Observatory
   Articles about the Aurora and the Geomagnetic Field. [Norwegian, English, German]
   http://geo.phys.uit.no/index.html

» Uranus Aurora
   Explanation of how aurora is different on Uranus
   http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/uranus/magnetosphere/U_aurora.html

» Words About Aurora
   References to the aurora borealis in Robert Service's poetic works.
   http://odin.gi.alaska.edu/lumm/non-sci/RS_aurora.html

» Yukon Aurora Forecast
   Predictions updated every 15 minutes for the Yukon-Alaska area.
   http://www.auroraforecast.com/