Aurorawatch

Aw ,nice one.
Good capture

Nice! as usual its cloudy in the east so nothing to see but will pop out again later to see if its cleared up at all

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Thanks for the heads up 👍. Saw a fantastic display to the naked eye where we are in Angus, with columns and curtains, greens and reds. Too nice for me to waste time getting the DSLR and setting it up when I could just enjoy them.

Oh wow!

Proper jealous, the app has been pinging at me tonight but no chance near me in Yorkshire, slightly gappy cloud with drizzle here, and looks to be the same all the way to the highlands. If I thought there was a big gap in the clouds somewhere in the north of England I'd be in the car by now with a camera and a flask.

https://www.yourweather.co.uk/weather-maps/prcnub-ukn.html#lat=53.522777777778&lon=-1.1336111111111

Very jealous. Just recently spent 5 nights in Iceland and didn’t see a thing.

West is best tonight - Tobermory

My mate has just sent me a photo from his bro in laws at Banchory, looks like the same spot?

 looks like the same spot?

Astronomically speaking, right next-door 🙂

What app are you all using?

Northern England under extensive cloud cover tonight. Good luck if you find a gap but most of Scotland clear all evening. Twitter went nuts.

Dunblane

Angus here too; stunning display. One of the best. No pics, too busy enjoying and trying not to get too cold.

What app are you all using?

Straight out Pixel 4a or Redmi Note 10

What app are you all using?

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/alerts/#apps

Really good even in Edinburgh with the light pollution.

Tenerife

What app are you all using?

It was visible to the naked eye - been all over local FB and Insta. I’ve used the Glendale app before

 

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App? In my case, Jungle Drums and Mk1 eyeball 🙂

My photos are from a Pixel 6

My sister just sent me this from the back door of their house in Donegal.

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Cheers for posting scotroutes ,it made me decide to drag myself to the hills for a better look.
Not bad over the Angus Glens,mostly green but a braw night.
It was nice to see a lot of other folk out doing the same thing,at least ,I think that's what they were doing 😉
I must get the AuroraWatch alerts set up again.

Been out a few times but still cloudy unfortunately:/

Geomagnetic activity went through the roof again!

From my bathroom window in Troon. Just about visible to the naked eye. If I’d realised it was going to be that good I’d have gone somewhere darker 😎

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Wow, these pictures are incredible. Very cool.

Wow +1. Amazing photos. I've always wanted to see the northern lights and I'll have to make the effort now.

Still there. Visible to the naked eye but the phone certainly enhances it.

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Missed it because I'm over at work but it looked like an especially vibrant night in St Andrews:

Photos from St Andrews photo page on pussbook.

Is there a way to forecast the aurora?

Yup,Sun spots

It's your local weather that is the tricky bit.

Is there a way to forecast the aurora

In quite a vague way.
The other issue is the combination of weather or daylight - so many times your get at alert for orange or red levels and it's bright sunshine or cloudy.

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Was an amazing display last night. Bloody cold though.

Wow,that's amazing .
How did you capture that mini stormtrooper in a jetpack. 😉 😆

Just to give hope to those of us not in Scotland, my mate took this shot last night from his mums place just over the hill here in the Brecon Beacons

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Guy from Lancaster uni just on R4, says it was visible as far south as Somerset and the quantocks! Viewable from Fylde coast as well which is my neck of the woods, I had no idea. Apparently worth keeping eyes peeled again tonight, it was a particularly large ejection from the Sun!

Poor old Good Morning Britain.

https://twitter.com/mrnickharvey/status/1629976349782728704

Is that tweet a spoof? I am not sure that Crowborough has a snowy hill and Girraffe(?) at present...

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Is that tweet a spoof? I am not sure that Crowborough has a snowy hill and Girraffe(?) at present…

I'm sure the producers at GMB know what they're doing. If they think giraffes are wandering past the snow-flecked peaks of East Sussex, who am I to argue?

AuroraWatch app has just sent out a red alert notification

We're full cloud cover again :/

Same in South Yorkshire, but not proper dark yet either. Anyone in the north with clear skies?

It’s nutty high again. West Yorks covered in mank. Check your cloud cover at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/maps-and-charts/cloud-cover-map#?bbox=%5B%5B47.66538735632654,-13.579101562500002%5D,%5B62.99515845212052,2.9003906250000004%5D%5D&model=ukmo-ukv&layer=cloud-amount-total

Clear skies in Oxfordshire but not really really
dark

On the border of west/North Yorkshire and it’s cloudy unfortunately. Might check later

Cloudy on Fylde coast tonight but my sister tells me clear skies in Daventry

Cloudy where we are in Angus

Totally missed it last night, cloudy tonight

Cloudy in Dumfries and Galloway

Up here in arctic Finland on a relatively warm (-3C) but blowy night, the sky is looking sweet!

Graininess is my equipment (iPhone) but mostly ineptitude.

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Can imagine we’ll see anything so close to the bright lights of London but I might point the DSLR at the sky later and see if there’s anything.

Noon was quite bright earlier…

https://auroraforecast.is/

Found this interesting when we were in Iceland. Obviously the cloud cover section is related to weather conditions in Iceland, but the space weather sections are relevant to uk (eg the solar wind speed, KP rating, the graphs showing the effect of the solar wind on the earth’s magnetic field)

Maybe I'm imagining it, but I'm sure there's a bright green patch in the clouds looking east from Sheffield tonight.

Really really really really really want to see the aurora.

Thinking of going to Scandinavia next year around Feb/March and having since for a few months for a bit of snowkiting and sky watching.

However, if this becomes a thing we could go to Scotland instead.... 🤟

I’m in the car in Fife about to pick my daughter up from scouts. It’s cloudy though. Seriously tempted to go for a drive a bit north and west in the hope we can see it. The school is on strike tomorrow anyway.

Seriously tempted to go for a drive a bit north and west in the hope we can see it.

I'm seeing photos from Ullapool tonight. A bit far?

Clear overhead in east Cumbria but more cloudy to the north. Nice green glow and signs of movement but it is subdued by the cloud.

Will have a look after an episode of the X Files

I’m seeing photos from Ullapool tonight. A bit far?

just a bit…

Was thinking more Crieff 😂

Maybe I’m imagining it, but I’m sure there’s a bright green patch in the clouds looking east from Sheffield tonight.

So not looking north then?! It's cloudy and murky as chuff in Sheffield. That is not the northern lights. The sky is glowing in almost every direction from light pollution. The east is some sports field (Goals?) lighting up the sky.

The east is some sports field (Goals?) lighting up the sky.

Dying dreams.

Pretty good from my garden 🙂 But I live on a road with no streetlights

Behold! A terrible picture from near Newbury lol

Are people using their phones to take these photos? if so, do you need to use a particular setting for  long exposure.

I've only ever seen the aurora from here, Rhynie Aberdeenshire, once and it was so faint that I was not sure. Others seem to have taken good photos locally. I wondered if they are enhanced by the camera somehow.

Are people using their phones to take these photos? if so, do you need to use a particular setting for long exposure.

My son's Pixel 4a - put it on night nmode.
My Redmi Note 10 Pro - looooong exposure.
Mrs_oab's iphone SE - couldn't get it to take a workable pic.

I used an iPhone 11. I’m sure it could take better photos but I forgot my glasses. Plus, it was too cold to faff, so just turned the flash off and held as steady as I could. I reckon it was using a ~3 sec exposure.

The photos intensify the colours quite a bit, but it was still spectacular when I shot the pics posted above.

I used my Pixel 6 in Night Shot mode. Handheld it will take about a 3 second exposure. Mount it on a tripod and it'll take exposures up to 4 minutes or so.

Most of the photos you see online will have been through some sort of filter but even just using a long exposure you will catch colours not clearly seen by the human eye.

I try not to process any of my photos (of anything), preferring to capture what I can see. However, sometimes it's necessary in order to capture detail and colour that the camera misses.

checked my Motorola G6, turned to Manual. slowest I can get seems to be 1/4sec

Iphone12 here. Just let it sort it out with the flash turned off. Handheld is ok, but best results are when I've rested it on something - something stable and not moving, like the rubbish bin on the floating dock in Tromso harbour.

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Fife just now!

I was in Inverness last night (rather than Yorkshire) but without transport and couldn’t see anything over the light pollution. Damn it!!

Sorry not Aurora, but did anyone see the new moon? It was a tiny slither, but so large that one could see the shaded side clearly through a lens or binoculars.

Lump of rock going by.

Close pass
Visible with binoculars if it's clear tonight (Sat).
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14th March. Granted I was just outside Reykjavik…

Amazing photos.

The last couple of nights webcam watching have been pretty awesome. This was Thursday-Friday in Finland, including an aurora sounding rocket launched from Sweden (it caused the blue light).