Aurora watch!
supersonic
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If you are lucky, and the oval tips south, you may be able to see some aurora tonight.
Look north after dark if clear.
http://spaceweather.com/
Look north after dark if clear.
http://spaceweather.com/
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should it be visible form all over the uk?0
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Chances are slim - the further north you go, the higher the chance. There were reports of it being seen from Scotland yesterday.
A lot of random chance involved in how it unfolds, but the foundations are laid for it.0 -
i might pop out for a look but wont hold my breath down here in kent.0
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Thought you meant the "Aurora", US secret high-speed plane.
Well, I say plane, but more like the shuttle/rocket with Impulse Power apparently.
( "I can't hold the Lithium crystals Captain! They're at warp factor 9 now!!!! )
Either Aurora would be a total blast to see though...0 -
You never know, rare, but has happened a few times, and much further south too.0
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i would love t see it in its full glory at some point in my life, especially after prof cox's explanation of what it is and why it occurs.0
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I missed that! I hear he is good at this though.
Noctilucent clouds are almost as good:
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I am sure a long long time ago my dad pointed the northern lights out to me. Probably getting mixed up with showing and telling. Either way its not something I have seen in adulthood. Would also like to too.fly like a mouse, run like a cushion be the small bookcase!0
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Looking at the data it doesn't look likely - if at all will be a dull green glow to the north or a pale white arc.0
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Oh, if anyone has a camera, try aiming it north and exposing for 20 seconds - sometimes pics up what the eye can't see.0
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supersonic wrote:Oh, if anyone has a camera, try aiming it north and exposing for 20 seconds - sometimes pics up what the eye can't see.
Sorry :oops:0 -
Hehe, I was waiting for that!!!0
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I saw it in 2000 over my house in Merseyside. I went into the garden for a leak because the bog was occupied looked up and the whole sky was bright green with streaks of darker green. Stood watching for ages as the sky changed colour green then blue then red.
The colours changed in pulses, the colour would be steady for a few minutes then rushing down from the north the new colour would take over the whole sky changing colour in what seemed like a second. The colours rippled like a slow motion curtain in a breeze.
The display ended when the sky flashed white so bright I flinched because I expected a bang and that was it the sky was normal and dark with the stars shining. I have never seen it since even though I have been in Northern Scotland during the winter I would love to go to Norway in the winter in the hope of seeing the Northern Lights again.Fig rolls: proof that god loves cyclists and that she wants us to do another lap0 -
Very clear night here, but alas, nothing to be seen.
Last time for me it started as a very bright, low arc right across the sky. White, green and pink shafts would extend upwards in tangents, and shift. The sky above it turned green and extended right overhead where it went from purple to ruby red.0 -
Like this, but paler and higher:
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I tried taking photos in 2000 but nothing came out all you could see was the streetlights. Love that photo of the Aurora Australis on the spaceweather site it would make a good screensaverFig rolls: proof that god loves cyclists and that she wants us to do another lap0
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Right I am off down the Pinewoods on my bike to try and get away from the streetlights. My lights are charged, my digi camera is charged just need a clove of garlic to keep me safe from the doggers.Fig rolls: proof that god loves cyclists and that she wants us to do another lap0
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Yeah, you need a really sensitive cam and long exposure to get them!
They get some stunning shots on that site, many I have used as screensavers. A few are too exposed though and just look too bright. I am keen to get a camera and have a go myself. My point and shoot wouldn't suffice, though it did a reasonable job of the clouds.
I like unusual sunrises too, and other atmospheric phenomena - took this in the summer,a sunrise from my window.
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stubs wrote:Right I am off down the Pinewoods on my bike to try and get away from the streetlights. My lights are charged, my digi camera is charged just need a clove of garlic to keep me safe from the doggers.
Good luck! I'd say it was slim, but you never know!0 -
There's maybe just the slightest hint visible from here- I could be imagining it or it could just be light catching on thin clouds though, really not sureUncompromising extremist0
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Well, I am lights out now and looking!
Nite all.0 -
supersonic wrote:Yeah, you need a really sensitive cam and long exposure to get them!
They get some stunning shots on that site, many I have used as screensavers. A few are too exposed though and just look too bright. I am keen to get a camera and have a go myself. My point and shoot wouldn't suffice, though it did a reasonable job of the clouds.
I like unusual sunrises too, and other atmospheric phenomena - took this in the summer,a sunrise from my window.
Nice shot this is the best I have ever taken it was a sunset last summer it had been a cloudfree day till a band of cloud rolled over just as the sun was dipping below the horizon. Must have been some dust in the air to make it so red it looked like the sky was on fire
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supersonic wrote:stubs wrote:Right I am off down the Pinewoods on my bike to try and get away from the streetlights. My lights are charged, my digi camera is charged just need a clove of garlic to keep me safe from the doggers.
Good luck! I'd say it was slim, but you never know!
Didnt see anything but I had a cracking ride Fig rolls: proof that god loves cyclists and that she wants us to do another lap0
