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[Gaby]

If the guy still relative far away from the Artic Circle claiming that at this time (21 April) the sun isn’t going below -13 degrees…

The sun went down to -16.5 degrees below horizon in Ørsta, Norway on 21 April - placing the town well within the astronomical twilight e.g. it is still almost completely dark, especially to the naked eye.

Nevertheless - the margins for dark nights up here are now shrinking very fast for each additional night.

Very interesting! From the same time period, this one was published by NASA (no comment added on the blue aurora):

A meteor streaks Earthward as aurora light up the skies over Alberta, Canada. (Image credit: Harlan Thomas)

From Calgary, which is way down relatively speaking:

Astrophotographer Harlan Thomas captured a spectacular early morning natural light show on April 20, as a Lyrid meteor photobombed the northern lights above Alberta, Canada.

"The image was taken West of Calgary in an area called Jumping Pound on April 20, 2026 at 4:20 am MDT (1020 GMT)," Thomas told Space.com in an email. "A Coronal Hole High Speed Stream (CH HSS) had arrived the day earlier and the geomagnetic storm continued into the next day."