Aurora Borealis red alert for the Uk tonight.

Depends where you are I guess.
I went to the south side of the house and looked almost straight up.
I think there's too much light pollution around here for a decent show
 
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Got my 11 year old up to see them and he was mesmerised by them. That was about 11:40pm.

I was lucky enough to see them in Lapland a few years back in Saariselka in the Arctic Circle. Really nice to see them again.
 
Our aurora watching was interrupted by the search and rescue helicopter airlifting a casualty from Arthur's Seat.
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In Wales porthmadog... Not that much activity, check with my bro in the centre of Sheffield,wham!

Typical !
 
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If it hadn't been for 1.3s exposures (hand held and forgetting you have to manually focus DSLRs in the dark! :D) I'd have mistaken Macclesfield's display for something to do with the airport and high, thick vapour trails. A hint of colour in the sky maybe, at times but... not quite what I hoped for. This is life's way of saying... go to bed. Night all.
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I nipped out to buy icecream and saw about 30 chinese students stood watching it through their phones..

Was just a feint green band at the time, and probably as good as it got up North.
 
LuckyBenski said:
It's better the further north you are, on theory.
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IDK I see some really good photos on reddit, but I guess a camera changes the colours to highlight it more if you click focus, and then people are likely editing them again after.

was 11:20 though so I guess it was mostly over by then anyway
 
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arknor said:
IDK I see some really good photos on reddit, but I guess a camera changes the colours to highlight it more if you click focus, and then people are likely editing them again after.

was 11:20 though so I guess it was mostly over by then anyway
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There were a couple of waves after midnight, I got some mediocre photos just now!
 
Feek said:
It was only very faint for us from the north. Was strongest straight overhead.
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Was 2 like curtains of it horizontal almost directly overhead coming from slightly northward, then to the south was 3 bands of it hanging down, to the naked eye very pale green with a slight purple background and almost looked like clouds except in peripheral vision and that they were changing in luminosity a bit. Annoyingly people a few miles south of me could see the 3 bands of it hanging down very clearly by eye and have some stunning images of it even from basic phone cameras but where I was for some reason it was very slight.
 
Efour said:
Lol my app still says a 60% chance to see it in broad Daylight..,
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Given some people on the south coast in the UK had a decent view, not just with a camera, last night it would almost not surprise me.

Was weirdly patchy here, dunno if there was some varying haze and/or light pollution involved but some people could see it really well and others like myself it was only just visible despite no rhyme or reason how far north people were.

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Definitely the coolest thing I've ever seen, can chalk it off my list, now to find a volcano erupting and then a nuclear detonation
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Ideally not in the UK.
 
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Rroff said:
For some reason it isn't anything like some people are getting, even with basic phone cameras and no editing, dunno if there is haze here or something - it is distinct in peripheral vision but barely noticeable if you look directly at it. It has ebbed and flowed a bit over the last half hour or so.
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Don't be to disappointed.. It didn't look anything like a lot of the pictures in this thread to the naked eye. IPhone cameras auto night mode massively ramps up the iso and colours to take a picture.. There was feint colours and you make it out but it was anywhere near the glowing spectacle it seemed. Especially in the South, north and Scotland I'd imagine had a much better view.
 
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