Aurora Borealis red alert for the Uk tonight.

I saw it, I think. In that I joined the hype & pointed a camera phone on 10s exposure at the sky & could make out green/red bits in the pic.
In honesty I couldn't really see anything & found it deeply underwhelming :D
 
Went out at around 10pm last night and was visible with the naked eye even in the outskirts of Chester so some light pollution. The red was the most visible at that time. It then seemed to fade away.

However, went out again around 00:30 and had got even more intense and the greens had become visible to the naked eye too and could start to see some light trails as opposed to just the hue.

The night shots on the phone obviously amplify this even further but was suprised to be able to see it as well as i could with the naked eye in a area I live.

Messaging in a few groups a friend down in Cornwall could even see it so it looks like it covered most of the country at some point if the weather allowed!

Looking at https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ what I saw around 00:30 seems to correlate with what was recorded as a peak in activity.
 
Once my eyes had adjusted to the darkness I could see it quite well here in the Highlands. Sorry for the poor phone image, 10s capture isn't great with moving trees.

Looking straight up:

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I feel slightly irradiated now.
 
I spotted it earlier in the evening as a dim colour in certain areas, and took some pics on night mode to get a better look. But, then I took the dog out for her late walk at about 12:00, and WOW, I was glad I left it a bit later than usual.
I was always a bit of a sceptic about how it really looked, only seeing it in photos clearly, and sort of vaguely a few times, but this was something else. Really felt lucky to have seen it so brightly up here in Lincs :) I ended up taking over 50 photos, and the quick 10 mins before bed walk, turned into a 30 minute skygazing session :D
 
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darkgen said:
Is there a chance for this tonight? @CGrieves effort is quite spectacular for SE London. I've a ton of light pollution but fancy my chances if so.

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SpaceWeatherLive forecast is still showing Kp5+ to Kp8 (last night's forecast was also Kp8) so you never know. These things are very unpredictable.

Turns out my camera had a skewed clock, so the video I posted shows the 1500nT peak just before midnight. I had another timelapse running until morning which had some activity, but nothing so impressive.

 
CGrieves said:
SpaceWeatherLive forecast is still showing Kp5+ to Kp8 (last night's forecast was also Kp8) so you never know. These things are very unpredictable.

Turns out my camera had a skewed clock, so the video I posted shows the 1500nT peak just before midnight. I had another timelapse running until morning which had some activity, but nothing so impressive.

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Hmm ok, ta. I've only got access to a Pixel 6 using the night time / astro mode so unlikely to capture anything of worth but I'll keep an eye out.
 
darkgen said:
Hmm ok, ta. I've only got access to a Pixel 6 using the night time / astro mode so unlikely to capture anything of worth but I'll keep an eye out.
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Wouldn't worry about that- Honestly nighttime mode on a modern phone camera will probably produce far more spectacular output than the Fuji I used thanks to the processing tech. I use an old Huawei P30 Pro and it picked out strong colours long before our eyes could see it.

Although don't do what my wife does, look at it through a screen and forget to see it with your own eyes :cry:
 
You lot can bugger right off!! :p:p:p Bloody Aurorawatch was going crazy all night and well into this morning and it was chucking it down with rain all night here as usual. Twenty five years I have lived in NE Scotland and I have still never seen a aurora!! Everytime something interesting has happened in the sky it's always raining or overcast here.
 
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