Aurora green SD

Here is green Aurora, also from Stockbridge down, Hampshire UK.

I cant remember if it was from the same display as the red aurora, we have seen it more than once from that location but i think i have only taken photos from one display so it may be the same one.

Again this is a photo of a photo so its a bit fuzzy, also not having much experience of aurora photography, well, none at all really! the actual photo probaly isnt as good as it could be.

It was an amazing display, there were vertical beams cutting through the green glow that danced about and merged with each other, yuo can see soem hints of the beams in the pic if you look close!

Great pic. I didn't think we have any chance of seeing the aurora this far south.

Its rare but it can happen if the conditions are just right, i remember the conditions were good, as indicated by space weather, there was a earth bound flare, i think it was a X class flare, Mark will probably remember, we decided to drive out to stockbridge down, something that mark very fondly reminds me off is how he was saying there was aurora as we were driving up the M3 and i was dismising it as light pollution, however when we hit the darker skies i knew it was aurora then, you could actually see it moving like a curatins blowing in the wind, and then we could see vertical beams shining up from the horizon these moved from side to side sometimes merging with each other then splitting again.

I think this was in the late 90's maybe 98 but not sure, and i think it was in october, it's also not the only time we saw them from that location, which is why i call it aurora down! i just hope i will get to see them again, now this time i'll be armed with my digital camera and more knowledge of how to take astro photos, back then i only had my old fashioned film SLR and i was so excited by the aurora i couldnt really concemntrate on getting a decent photo, i know i took lots and lots of photos and used lots of different settings hoping i would get at least some decent pics, only i never made any notes about what settings i used for each photo!