What is the best place to view Aurora Borealis from?

Which is the best place to watch northern lights [Aurora Borealis]?

• where they are heavier or dense [whatever, you know what i mean], and the best place of the year to visit the place. Thanks for your answers...

• Answer:

  The equinoxes are the best time...March and September and the adjoining months.... but the lights can appear on any night of the year. The auroral oval is biased toward Canada/Alaska because the north magnetic pole is in Canada. Here's a picture of it from the latest satellite pass. Click on it for a bigger pic http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/ . . . . . Far north in Norway or Finland can be good as well and both countries have aurora hotels but more southerly parts of Norway are hopeless for it. Tromso is good because you get gorgeous scenery and magnificent views from the hills so you still get a wonderful time there even if you don't see the lights. Fly from Oslo. It's very arduous by road and an awful long way. It's a great place for skiing too. Wrap up warm. It's 200 miles north of the Acrtic Circle. Lillehammer is another good choice for the lights and for skiing and sightseeing. Beautiful. Take loads of cash though. Norway is very very expensive. Bergen has around 240 days of rain a year and it's too far south for aurorae anyway apart from a very few very extensive ones like the glorious show a few years back seen as far south as Spain. Bergen folks didn't see it, sad to say.. It was raining that night. Most residents of Bergen have never ever seen an aurora. Some days they can't even see the hills behind Bergen let alone the sky. Here's a lady who got lost above Bergen very likely because the clouds covered a massive pillar ( called cairns but they're very big pillars) marking the route. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100725104545AA9RGPq It's not on this list of solar storms but it was a magnificent show that covered the whole sky in the north west England in bright red and orange shimmering sheets of light with bits of green, and it lasted more than four hours. http://www.solarstorms.org/SRefStorms.html . . . Here's a site which will keep you up to date with solar weather and the likelyhood of getting a decent show of aurorae. http://spaceweather.com/ . . . . .