Our tour leaders spent dinner studying aurora and cloud cover projections and decided our best bet was to drive south to the little hamlet of Vogar and observe the sky from the Kálfatjarnarkirkja church parking lot.
It worked! We could see a faint aurora almost as soon as we got off the bus; it got brighter but then clouds moved in…and it started to drizzle, so we all got back on the bus to wait it out.
Five minutes later, we got off the bus and had a brighter aurora to enjoy.
I need to spend some time practicing with my tripod, phone, mount, and camera before the next session – I took some terrific closeup pictures of the parking lot before I wised up!
