PSA: aurora on red alert

mid Derbyshire.

Visible with the naked eye here in Chester. Can’t believe how clear it was.

Up on the Chevin, West Yorkshire. Faint to the eye

Full on in Suffolk apparently

Leafy South West London not really getting the show…

Peak District

Bowness on Windermere just now.

Renfrewshire

Occasional red streaks to the naked eye in Shifnal. My phone app seemingly doesn’t have a Night mode

Can definitely see it in Suffolk, even without getting out into the sticks.

First time I have ever seen them. Massive glows of deep red and lighter patches of green. Just outside Oswestry

Double post

Carmarthenshire says Yes!

My lad took this w a iPhone long exposure in mid Sussex . Gone by the time I finished my FTP intervals

First time I have ever seen them.

Same. 60 years old and running round the garden like an excited kid!

Houns – that’s a brilliant pic! If you play around with it and make it even more vivid it looks nuts

On the Moors above Bacup

First time for me too in almost 60 years. Was beginning to think the hills were preventing us from ever seeing them. And then BAM…..

Stanage Edge right now

The disturbance levels have passed 1400. That’s crazy, they were 900 or so earlier this year’s, that’s way higher than I’ve ever seen

Makes for good viewing though

clearly visible to the naked eye, just north of Glasgow at around 11.30-12.00 tonight.

Not bad here in central Oslo last night

Never thought I’d see them as far south as Brighton!

Isn’t it great? Even an ill mrs_oab dragged herself out to see them. It never grows old or mundane.

Later it was well visible by the naked eye from inside our house in Dunblane – which has a streetlight outside directly to the north! That’s a first – we’ve seen vague, greenish colour from the house before, but this was much more vibrant.

Stopped on my way home with my nephew from the climbing wall. Got some nice phone photos. I got home and dragged out Carmen (Canon r6) but the show wasn’t as good. We had 360 views of it south of Edinburgh. I’m just waiting on the laptop churning through a 360° spherical panorama (of the grassy area in the housing estate)

Cloud and drizzle in our patch. Pah!

The stupid picture uploader won’t accept most of my pictures but it was pretty spectacular from Stanage at around midnight.

I’ve never seen it before so it was well worth the drive out. It was clearly visible with the naked eye but obviously not as vivid as the photos.

I’ll keep an eye on the forecast from now on.

Scapegoat Hill toward the Northwest.

Daughter saw them in Hull, son just newly moved to Nairn was gutted as it was all masked by cloud cover!!

@scapegoat – wow! What time was that? How long was that exposure?

We didn’t see anything in Stainland. Woe is me

2130 was ‘ok’ above Holmfirth (nothing compared to May). I looked out the door at 2330 and there wasn’t much to see but the levels went nutty after midnight but no idea if that meant super-spectacular.

My first definite successful observation. Fabulous. In southern Lancashire it was dim at 8pm and again about 11pm, but at 10pm it was extraordinary. My son even saw them from the middle of Leeds!

@ElShalimo

two or three seconds, then a bit of colour playing to bring out the greens and blues. Amazing how much difference the clear horizon makes.  I got a couple more shots from the top of Park Gate. About 2230.

BBC saying that likely not to be as good tonight and only visible for those in the North. Trying to plan day/evening/drinks against wanting to drive later to somewhere with no light pollution if Aurora is on.

Thanks @Scapegoat

Does anyone know what time is peak activity tonight?