Tour Scotland Video Northern Lights Off The Scottish Coast

Tour Scotland video of the Northern Lights off the coast of Scotland. The aurora borealis, or northern lights, is a spectacular natural phenomenon which can occasionally be seen in the night sky over Britain. In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis, or the northern lights, named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, by Galileo in 1619. Auroras seen within the auroral oval may be directly overhead, but from farther away they illuminate the poleward horizon as a greenish glow, or sometimes a faint red, as if the Sun were rising from an unusual direction. The best places to see the Northern Lights in Scotland include; Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands, Caithness, Aberdeenshire and the Moray Coast, Isle of Lewis, Isle Harris in the Outer Hebrides and the most northerly tip of Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, the far north west of Scotland, Wester Ross, the Cairngorms, Galloway Forest Park, Ranoch Moor and Perthshire, Angus and the coast of Fife, Calton Hill or Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh.

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