If you fly to Europe and Poland

[Jaga]

do not remember to ask for a seat on the left side near the window. You can see a beautiful aurora!!!!

I never thought about it before but this may be a good idea since the airplanes from the US fly over Greenland and aurora may be very well visible there.

I am just listening to the series of scientific lectures by Walter Lewin on MIT and he talks about it.

By the way, a series of his video lectures is available:
ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-02Electricity-and-MagnetismSpring2002/VideoLectures/

lecture #19

[kaima]

The only two additional ingredients I can think of are at least partial darkness and good auroral activity. Here is a link where you can go to see where the Aurora should be showing well at any one time:
www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/

you may have to look for the "Polar" view instead of the "Alaska" view.