Anyone up Inverness/Caithness way see the aurora last night? Just got a brief glimpse north of Aberdeen before the cloud rolled in, but it looked as if it could have been spectacular without the cloud.
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No, but some of the photos on the BBC website are spectacular. I'm not far from Stirling and going to head up to a good vantage point later on to see if there's anything tonight (sub-zero already with hardly a cloud around - conditions probably don't get much better).
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Seen as far down as Oxfordshire, according to the Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather ... skies.html
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Hi Dick,was up in Durness with a few friends having a wee celebration the house we were in had wooden window shutters which we had closed so we missed it saw some beautifull shots taken from there the next day as my other hobby is photography I was gutted.
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I'd been following various forecasts running up to the evening and I was lucky enough to be already driving to a location when the minor alert came through on my phone.
I headed out to Druridge Bay just north of Newcastle upon Tyne and my first test photos revealed some green. As I took more shots the lights improved and there were lots of vertical beams. The lights were so bright that they were reflected in the damp sand and the reflection was so bright I thought it was fairly deep water.
I then moved to a nearby nature reserve where I could watch it from the comfort and relative warmth of one of the bird hides. I was out for about 5 hours and took over 300 photos. At one point there was a visible arc of light starting directly west, passing overhead and continuing to the east.
There was some colour visible to the naked eye as well.
Here's one of my photos -
https://flic.kr/p/Ey2Nc1 by duncanhoyle, on Flickr
If you're not aware - photos of the aurora show a lot more colour than will see with the naked eye as the camera sensor is a lot more sensitive. There was slight green and red visible this time.
This was the 3rd or 4th time I've seen the aurora this year, including 5 wonderful hours on my own on new year's eve/new year's morning near Hadrian's Wall.
There's a chance of visible aurora some time round the 10th/11th so fingers crossed...
I headed out to Druridge Bay just north of Newcastle upon Tyne and my first test photos revealed some green. As I took more shots the lights improved and there were lots of vertical beams. The lights were so bright that they were reflected in the damp sand and the reflection was so bright I thought it was fairly deep water.
I then moved to a nearby nature reserve where I could watch it from the comfort and relative warmth of one of the bird hides. I was out for about 5 hours and took over 300 photos. At one point there was a visible arc of light starting directly west, passing overhead and continuing to the east.
There was some colour visible to the naked eye as well.
Here's one of my photos -
https://flic.kr/p/Ey2Nc1 by duncanhoyle, on FlickrIf you're not aware - photos of the aurora show a lot more colour than will see with the naked eye as the camera sensor is a lot more sensitive. There was slight green and red visible this time.
This was the 3rd or 4th time I've seen the aurora this year, including 5 wonderful hours on my own on new year's eve/new year's morning near Hadrian's Wall.
There's a chance of visible aurora some time round the 10th/11th so fingers crossed...
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