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Nothing visually here, but pointing the phone up and taking 3s exposures shows a lot of pink and hints of green… I’m staying on the edge of Exmoor tomorrow night so would be great if this continues!

At ~55° north I literally have to look southward to see it. In the image, you can see Cygnus at the center (which is in the east now)

As long as you don't sell the images, it's all good

Can’t see anything visually, but my phone is picking up a lot of pink and hints of green, presume that is it????

The Sun is to the north this time of year and its the brightest part of the sky in a weird backwards sense. This was just about barely visible to the zenith: Blue skies and still could see it, very unusual even here.

very evident in Dumfriesshire. Green vertical almost overhead.

Get outside now. Mega aurora storm...

Don't know if it's my imagination but north is looking very green on camera.

I've got the Tak out.

Just been out for 30 mins, thin cloud and setting crescent moon aren't helping, but definitely saw violet and possibly green to the North.

Allsky camera picking up an overhead red glow in Cumbria.

South?

Just went for a walk, can just about see a faint green glow to the south from bortle 8. City conditions and barely astronomical twilight and still visible, pretty rare for sure.

Common wisdom says that you should go for 2-3mm exit pupil and lower magnifications. You have fairly slow scope that is easy on the eyepieces, so many will perform nice. I'm inclined to point you to Explore Scientific 62 degree line - 26mm. It is in your price bracket and as far as I'm aware (not owned one) - it is very comfortable eyepiece with 20mm of eye relief. On the other side of this spectrum would be eyepiece around 18mm - so this one might be an option: https://www.firstlightoptics.com/stellalyra-eyepieces/stellalyra-18mm-ultra-flat-field-125-eyepiece.html

Bought this scope as my first 9 years ago, and have owned and observed through many others since, but nothing has ever given me better lunar views then my humble sw200p. Arcing siren the young moon tonight against the twilight and the run through Fumerius, Petavius, Vendelinus and Langrenus just take my breath away in my Nirvana 4mm ep at 300x. Petavius central peak looks like a volcano! Edit: @Mr Spock scooped me by three minutes!!! That was what I was looking at 😀

Skies are clear but couldn't see any an hour ago. Too bright here at 60N, this event is for southern folks to enjoy. Here is what the Finnish meteorological institute picked up (Nurmijärvi is at 60N and the red dotted line way in the bottom of the graph is the usual visual limit): I was outside right at that big peak to the right. Would probably have been a decent show in some other time of year, but i shouldn't complain since at 60N i do see them a few times a year.

Lovely session on the moon with the 4" and 3.5mm eyepiece - x211 - until it dipped behind some trees. Amazing terminator. Humboldt well presented and looking spectacular. Also an interesting south pole. A very fine line of illumination to three 'peaks' (I'm guessing) then another fainter line to a fainter peak. Rubbish phone snap to go with it. I really need something to hold other than my shaky hands... Shame its lost the detail in Humboldt. Too much faff to attach my DSLR for such a short session though.

okay! Thanks so much I'll try to find one for my scope 😄

Thanks for sharing @HnrKS. Hopefully the intensity will pick up again, especially as hasn't only the first of the six CMEs reached earth so far...

As seen by my phone an hour ago in eastern Europe (~55° north). It appears to have calmed down a bit since then

957.3nT ?!

Could be a bird, plane or satellite

The only thing that beats Baader for quality of views/images is a good Herschel wedge ( and the difference between those is marginal ) every other film or glass filter I've used/tested doesn't come close in terms of resolution. Seymour , Thousand Oaks , and anything still called Mylar film like yours , is fit for little else but Eclipse Glasses in my humble opinion , based on 12 years of imaging using Baader film ...

I really do hope I see it tonight. I think the aurora is the astronomical related thing that I've tried to observe the most without actually seeing it yet. And there's been a few times which I seemingly missed it by minutes.