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AURORA REGIONS
 There are few places on earth like those under the Aurora oval. Blachford Lake is usually under one of the most intense areas of the Northern Hemisphere's Giant Aurora Oval-- a ring
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Even the City of Yellowknife, almost 100 km to the east does not experience the spectacular effects seen at the lodge.
We provide daily forecasts of the chance of viewing northern lights based on several sources including NASA, the polar institute in Alaska, and spaceweather.com. Daily representations of the aurora oval are made available to our guests shortly before nightfall. This helps aurora hunters make the most of their opportunity to see the northern lights in warmer temperatures than February thru April provide.
To those looking for the 'quintessential northern lights experience' we invite you to look at our winter offerings under the 'WINTER ACTIVITIES category.
Our main lodge was designed with aurora viewing in mind. All bedrooms offer prime viewing as do the dining, lounge areas, aurora room, decks, sauna deck and hot tub.
Many of our guests admit the best place for aurora viewing may be from the hot tub . You can relax, drink in hand, in the therapeutic hot tub while watching a dazzling display of aurora above you.
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AURORA FACTS
What is the Aurora?
The sun gives off high-energy charged
particles (also called ions) that travel
out into space at speeds of 300 to
1200 kilometres per second. A cloud
of such particles is called a plasma.
The stream of plasma coming from the
sun is known as the solar wind. As the
solar wind interacts with the edge of
the earth's magnetic field, some of the
particles are trapped by it and they
follow the lines of magnetic force
down into the ionosphere (the section
of the earth's atmosphere that extends
from about 60 to 600 kilometres
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| When the
particles collide with the gases in the
ionosphere they start to glow, producing
the spectacle that we know as the
auroras.The array of colours consists
of red, green, blue and violet. The
most common Colour is a ghostly
green, given off by oxygen atoms.
Oxygen is also responsible for the
brownish red colour. Auroras that are
very intense, often have purple edges,
that are caused by a red and blue
mixture of nitrogen emissions.
The Northern Lights are constantly in
motion because of the changing
interaction between the solar wind
and the earth's magnetic field.
It is not possible to preduct auroral
activity very far in advance, but if the
weather is clear, chances are pretty
good that you will see Aurora Borealis
in the Northwest Territories between
September and Early April, but is at its
most vivid from December to March
when the nights are the longest,and
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