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
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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…
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
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.
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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).
* looks out of windows at 100% cloud cover....
Thinking of driving over to Macclesfield forest where there's little light pollution, but, too much cloud atm.
too much cloud atm.
I wouldn't bother, it's raining.
Not down here in the Bannau Brechiniog it isn't
My brother in Newtown reports a faint glow, with slight banding just discernible to the naked eye. I may get a photo from him to share here tomorrow.
Seeing lots of photos from Mull, which is great as I’m in Aus!
I’m nights but in the control room tonight so that’s me having no chance. Seen some cracking photos appearing from those doing the NC500.
simondbarnes - two minutes after writing my post the heavy rain came. No chance of seeing anything.
The advice is 'a chance of seeing it tonight', also the skies will hopefully be clear.
