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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kjell Henriksen Observatory - http://kho.unis.no/
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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prime Focus-Iowa Aurora Borealis - http://www.primefocus-iowa.com/Aurora_Borealis.html
Lots of nice pictures.

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

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

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

Secrets of the Polar Aurora - http://www.phy6.org/Education/aurora.htm
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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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