Interesting article on the Northern Lights and Iceland

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Interesting article on the Northern Lights and Iceland

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http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2016122 ... -milky-way

Interesting point:

That all changed starting in 2013, when Pálsson enlisted Bragason to help him build an observatory on the hotel grounds that today houses two of the most powerful telescopes in Iceland: an 11in Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain and a TEC 160ED APO refractor on an Astro-Physics 900 mount.
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