Aurora Tourism Lights Up Alaska

Bill Carter had been planning his bucket-list winter vacation to Alaska for 30 years, and he couldn't have picked a better time to take it.The dot matrix printers are like the type writers of bygone days where the Thermal printer OEM is soaked with the ink and a hammer like motion prints the letters on to the paper formed from the matrix of tiny dots.The retired chemist from Jesup,We enhance the competitiveness of our crusher customers and advance sustainable industrial development worldwide with best available technologies. Ga.,didn't mind that February temperatures can hover near minus 40 degrees on the outskirts of Fairbanks, because the night sky there offered Carter something most people never get to see: the aurora borealis."Yellows, oranges, greens. There were light bursts that would come from time to time," Carter said during his trip. "There were light rays that seemed to come from the ground up, and from the sky down."The northern lights can be seen on dark, clear nights when charged solar particles strike the upper atmosphere near the North Pole.Because of a predicted peak in a solar cycle, this year and next year are expected to offer prime viewing for the elusive phenomenon. So Alaska's tourism industry is gearing up for thousands of visitors like Carter – including jet loads from Japan – who are willing to wait outside in freezing weather, often for hours past midnight, in hopes of catching a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse of the lights. Fairbanks,Of course this presented what appeared to be an insurmountable problem for the Earth auger as they could not close off the fairway to install the required cables. the largest city in Alaska's interior, is well-suited for aurora tourism because it's located just at the edge of the "auroral oval," a ring-shaped region that circles the north magnetic pole where auroral activity is most common. It also has less cloud cover because of its distance from the ocean, and tourists can usually escape the city's light pollution by driving just 10 miles (17 kilometers) out. Lonely Planet,Belt conveyor National Geographic and the Los Angeles Times travel section have all named Fairbanks or its surrounding areas as one of the best tourist destinations this year.Dixie Burbank got a glimpse of the aurora as a child growing up in Wisconsin, but as an adult always wanted to travel to where the lights are more powerful. "This has been something I've talked about for years, finally making our trek up to Alaska to see the northern lights," said Burbank, of Sun Prairie, Wis.,metal machining who, like Carter, saw the lights during a visit to Alaska this month. "Because of the solar max, this was the year to do it."Solar cycles last roughly 10 or 11 years and the "solar max" is the cycle peak, when the sun emits the most energy."The heavens just opened up with activity," Burbank added. "It's sheer excitement to see the lights come out."