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Ditto! 🤣 We had the magenta streaks to the north east which have now disappeared but…. It was north east, but northwest is still showing red now for me:

Couldn't resist another hour but this time from the back garden: MVI_1416.MP4 In all my 71 years I've never seen anything like this - amazing. Also one taken with the iPhone: NightCap.MOV Not quite the quality obtained from the Canon. Adrian

Graphs jumped up to 800nT, but thin cloud is coming in

Yep it was just visible here also.. Some nice waves of green to the North and purple / pink pillar to the South East.

Had good strong auroral activity from 11.04pm to 12.10am when it started to die down. Still less strong activity when I came indoors at 1.20am. Below are some of many pictures taken on night mode with my mobile phone, hand held.

Seems to have faded again

Yep - just started to see those "pillars" of light again here too. Glad I don't have to be up early !

Seen in light polluted Lichfield also - thanks SGL'ers for posting updates. Did have the imaging gear out but there was a thin layer of cloud so although the camera was cooled, on target and guiding, I never bothered to start imaging - the aurora was way better anyway! Thankfully the old Nikon D3 still had some juice in the batteries as I scrambled to get it, tripod and cable release! 6 seconds @ f/2.8 14-24mm Nikkor lens @ 14mm ISO500 Pointed the thing virtually straight up as wanted a bit of a 'house portrait' for some scale - it was like being back in Norway... to get the corona as well - amazing !

Look north around 30-45 degrees in altitude, pillar extending vertical purple red. It's extending up now near zenith

There's also a youtube video with a compilation:

Thanks Chris north or straight up

Aurora has just started here again! What a night!

Looks like thin cloud coming in

Taken over a period of 1 hour just before midnight ... MVI_1294.MP4 .. with a Canon G5 MkII.

Up at 4.30 but just want to see it one more time

Hi! I’m still very much new to this hobby and have been experimenting taking photos with my phone (IPhone 15 Plus for reference). I’ve just edited these pictures by taking the brightness down and the contrast up, so nothing too professional, but I was wondering if there would be anyone kind enough to help me label what I’ve taken pictures of? Specific stars, constellations, etc. For reference, I’m in the UK (north) and all three of these pictures were taken 11th May between 00:32 - 00:35. I tried to use apps like skyview etc but i couldn’t get my wifi to work sufficiently - so I’m sorry for asking a lot of questions. Thank you so much, any help is truly appreciated.

With my mobile phone braced against the roof of my car. 16s ISO3200 Saxilby UK Amazing night! Great images all. Adam

Saw strong shafts of light here in Bedfordshire, and hints of colour. Unfortunately all my pants tablet has recorded is sensor noise! And I saw the best meteor I've ever seen! Towards the east. What a night! And the sun wasn't too bad this morning either.

Funny that this was across the whole of the UK and beyond. Guess what movie I was watching as it was happening - Invasion -. Will we all wake up tomorrow alien drones 😖

Wow, I never seen anything like that before. The reds and greens were visible to the naked eye, milky like streaks all over the sky. Every direction I photographed the aurora was there. What a joy tonight has been to behold. I actually the scope set up ready to image tonight but forgot to start it running (not that it would have been any good anyway!) such was I in awe of what right in front of me. Some pictures straight from the camera:

Never seen this before kp9 ! Looking good for lighting up again in next 30mins or so .

Quiet at the moment

There were 2 strong bursts of aurora. 11-11:30 then 11:40-00:00 roughly. When the first birst was dying down, things turned blue in the camera. Green was gone and a there was a little pink. I noticed that it actually appeared clearer to the naked-eye than through the camera. Did anyone else notice tat?

Waited nearly 20yrs since the last (and only) time I’d had a good view. Phew! Hope we get another one a bit earlier I the evening in the darker nights of autumn for the youngest to have a look. peter

Have done, crazy magnifications. It’ll only take 1.25” ep, so I use a 24mm wide ep normally. Needs a solid tripod. I’ve flocked the inside of the tube, the secondary baffle and the baffle tube to help the contrast, though it’s still a little less contrast than other scopes. For high power views it’s a cheap and potent option, though you can’t get low powers unless you accept plossl width fields. peter