The iPhone’s ultrawide-angle and telephoto lenses may work well by day, but the default 1x “photo” lens has the best night-sky capabilities. You can technically use night mode with the portrait option, but this is better reserved for street scenes or nights out on the town, not aurora landscape images.

Get your cameras ready: A massive solar flare, the strongest since 2017, has caused large eruptions that are forecast to cast the dazzling Northern Lights as far south as central United States and New England Friday night and into the weekend, according to aurora forecasters.

The northern lights could be visible in New Hampshire Sunday night, if weather conditions are right and skies are clear. The best time to try and catch a glimpse will be between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. Sunday night. For the best view, head to an area away from city lights, find an open space, and look north, low on the horizon.

Saturday night will bring a better shot to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights, with a mostly clear sky expected. The best time to look up at the sky on Saturday night will be from 9 PM to 5 AM, when the greatest solar activity and darkest sky overlap.

The lights may be visible in states including New York, Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, Montana and New Hampshire.

The northern lights may be visible in New Hampshire Saturday night, and the forecast is favorable with a mainly clear sky expected overhead.

For prime northern lights viewing in the United States, the strongest activity is expected to arrive late Saturday into Sunday, per Thursday’s forecast by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Clouds may also clear through the night to provide good vantages for the majority of the country.

The northern lights could dazzle millions of Americans in some northern states this weekend. An eruption of solar material from the sun earlier this week could lead to a show of the aurora borealis if the weather conditions are right,

The Miami Valley has had three great views of the Northern lights this year, and our next best chance could be tonight. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] TRENDING STORIES: The reason for that is we are currently in what we all a “solar maximum” where every 11 years the activity on the sun reaches a point where sunspots are more numerous and solar flares are more common.

With a geomagnetic storm incoming after the most powerful solar flare of the current solar cycle, here's how to image the Northern Lights with a phone and manual camera.