Aurora Borealis - Your experiences and pictures

mattyprice4004

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Well, I'm sure you've all heard of last night's amazing show. :)

I'm going to be keeping a close eye out for the next one, and will post some pictures up when I manage to catch one. Not been successful so far - tonight activity is quite low but could always pick up at the last minute.

Some useful sites for monitoring activity and space weather:

Aurora Watch - useful site with sensors in Crooktree, Scotland. Also has free email alerts.
http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/

Auroral oval - showing current activity levels with colour gradients:
http://www.spacew.com/www/northoval.gif

Alternative Auroral oval - showing current activity levels:
http://www.spacew.com/www/aurvis.gif

So, did anyone see the show last night, or does anyone actively follow this kind of thing? :)
 
No pictures I'm afraid. I've seen it twice (Lossiemouth & Findhorn), both times it was green. It was quite some time ago and would love to see it again. If I'm as lucky as I was before I wouldn't need to go anywhere to see it again.
 
Yep, I drove from Nottingham to Newcastle, and then Bamburgh Castle last night, and got back at 5am this morning.

My first ever time, the west coast had it best though.

We may be getting a "show" tonight, but general opinion is that it's going to stay "up north". (it was visible from Whitby / North Manchester last night).

Tomorrow there is supposedly another "hit", but that may be in the afternoon, so over and done with by darkness, but that's just a guess.

Some of my unprocessed photos from last night

http://www.flickr.com/photos/depthoffield
 
Went oop norf in March this year for the Northern Lights - all the way north to Arctic Circle in Sweden.

Manchester > Amsterdam (Schipol) > Stockholm (Arlanda) > Gallivare (aka Lapland Airport :D)

Damn cold but jaw droppingly good. Also went husky sledging which was ace :cool:
 
Heard about it but forgot to head out last night.

Looks cloudy tonight, not much point of bothering.
 
I hadn't heard about this until now! I did get a message from aurara watch but it went to my junk box, need to sort that out. I live in the South east anyway so...

I was in Finland last January and my experience of the northern lights consisted of standing on a frozen lake for 3 hours (twice) in temps of -30 and only spotting a green tinge that lasted a couple of seconds! I did however manage to get everyone to disobey the stay in your seats at takeoff on the way back... We saw a few whisps when we were ascending on the way back, queue one side of the plane ending up on the other...:D
 
Jongo said:
Snap, been one of those things i really want to see for ages but still havn't got around to planning yet.
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Keep an eye on the Photography forum in March. Me and 2 other photographers are going to Iceland for this very reason :)
 
Ive seen it a couple of times in Scotland. Once in 2001 near Edinburgh and once last year up here in Dundee. Apparently it was visible here a couple of nights ago but I missed it because I didn't know about it :(. Isn't solar activity supposed to be at a 11 year peak at the start of next year?

Might have to look into going to iceland..
 
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