Our best pictures of the Auroras - Private Tours in Iceland

Pictures of the Northern Lights in Iceland

Northern Lights pictures: 1st of December 2023:

The moon is shining bright, next to some impressive Northern Lights. A client is posing with her arms open in front of teh scenery

Auroras and happy customer

Northern Lights

Green and purple auroras over a small town

Northern Lights

Green and purple auroras are spiraling over a restaurant

Northern Lights

A bright full moon is shining and green auroras are spiraling around it.

Northern Lights

Purple and green auroras are taking the whole sky over a small towwn

Northern Lights

Green spiraling auroras over mountains, with a full moon shining. Both the moon and the auroras are reflecting on frozen river

Northern Lights in Iceland

Northern Lights

Pictures from 2023

Green and purple auroras peeping behind the clouds

Green and purple northern lights

Northern Lights

Green spiraling aurora during sunset and a dark line of mountains at the horizon

Auroras at sunset

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Auroras in the sky look like a green explosion

Northern Lights up in the sky

Powerful green Northern Lights at sunset

Aurora Borealis and sunset

The Northern Lights in Iceland

Come with Lilja Tours on a private Northern Lights Hunt

The science behind the Auroras

If our planet, and especially Iceland, is a prime choice of location to enjoy the Northern Lights, the origin of this phenomenon comes from a very distant place. Everything begins 150 millions kilometers away from us, on the sun.

Our star constantly blows charged particles in space, even more so during sun storms. Those particles travel through our solar system, through space, and eventually, our planet, will be on the trajectory of those particles.

When the particles hit the magnetic field surrounding our planet, this field will redirect the particles towards our pole. These particles will then penetrate our atmosphere, and react with the gases in it, especially oxygen and nitrogen.

When this reaction happens, it emits light, and this light creates … The Northern Lights

Our Northern Lights Tours

We offer different Northern Lights private tours. You can either join us on a Northern Light classic hunt or combine it with a day tour