Photo credit: Astro_Soichi @ Twitter

I’ve been wanting to share the above picture since I saw it on Monday — it’s quite possibly the best photo Astro_Soichi has posted yet! And I’m adding to the aurora love with some choice images from April.

Photo credit: Lance Parrish. Skiland, Alaska, 20 miles NE of Fairbanks - Apr. 5, 2010.

Above and next two below come from the same evening:

Active displays beginning shortly after midnight which became very active around 1 am local time. Exceptionally fast moving, colorful, horizon to horizon, northern lights which stayed directly overhead for a good while, sort of centered around the big dipper.

Photo credit: Lance Parrish. Skiland, Alaska, 20 miles NE of Fairbanks - Apr. 5, 2010.

Photo credit: Lance Parrish. Skiland, Alaska, 20 miles NE of Fairbanks - Apr. 5, 2010.

This last one is a rare thing: aurora + volcanic eruption?

I went to see the volcanic eruption in Eyjafjallajokull Glacier persisting into its second week, with lava flows into nearby canyons. In the twilight the auroras begin to dance in the sky and it was breathtaking to say the least.

Photo credit: Albert Jakobsson. Iceland, Glacier Eyjafjallajokull in the south part of Iceland - Apr. 4, 2010.