City9Town0

36 minutes ago, Steve Ward said:

Here in the darkness of West Suffolk the colours were easily visible to the naked eye ... 😉

...and in Melton, East Suffolk.

15 hours ago, City9Town0 said:

Hope can be such a cruel sentiment!!!

... and the hope was realised!!!

WOW it was special!

An attempt at a GIF from Suffolk... clicking on it may make it 'run'?

Fantastic here in IP12.

Never thought that I'd see the aurora looking South from here!

Fabulous colours with the naked eye!!!

17 minutes ago, PeterW said:

First impact over possibly, hoping for more please… 

 

peter

Hope can be such a cruel sentiment!!!

I'm still using DBE... just how much of a dinosaur am I? (polite answers only!)

Saw three in the East in five minutes a while ago... now 95% cloud, and it looks set in for a while!

Good luck!

Cloudy in my part of Suffolk.

12 hours ago, Kaliska said:

Really stunning, what was your equipment, and exposure settings to capture?

 

Canon 5DIII, Canon 16-35 series2 set at 16mm, f2.8, 2000ISO, 20 second exposures.

After an hour and a half I'd just about given up waiting!

I turned around and did some 'light painting' photos in a southerly direction, and then had a look back to the North... Oh my!!! ...fired up the camera and watched... my best ever from Suffolk.

About forty minutes or so of aurora condensed to a few seconds.

A few km North-East of Ipswich.

It's a big file, but colourful!

Visible to the naked eye as faint creamy colour and very faint vertical shafts.

A delight!!!

Since I've 'got into astronomy' I've realised that I had bought the wrong house in the wrong place...

Visited Delabole quarry in the early '80's... a v. big hole!

Remember the skies were good.

It's 100 minutes up the A12 from the M25 when the road is clear... therefore normally much longer!!! ☹️

A smashing part of the world... some excellent dark skies once the rain clears!!!

I'd have to go out and buy four!

2 hours ago, John said:

I've just thought of one quite local to me - the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, 19 New King Street, Bath. Fascinating place and Uranus was discovered from the garden 🙂

Herschel Museum of Astronomy

Bath Astronomers hold their meetings there.

A lovely visit; found it by chance on a trip to Bath a few years ago.

11 hours ago, Cjg said:

What month did you take these in? Judging by the position of the MW, I’d say later in the year? 
I need to get back in May for another attempt. 
 

September 17th 2017...

Single shots, 5D3, Canon 16-35mm set at 16mm, 30 seconds, ISO 1600/3200.

Added with permission.

Same location a few years ago... Thunderstorm on horizon.

It really is a cracking spot... apart from the Felixstowe glow!

+1 for APT.

In Northern Norway I've seen the vibrant colours... In East Anglia (Suffolk) I've photographed the colours and seen nothing!

On 09/04/2023 at 09:09, michael8554 said:

I like the replica Harrison H3 clock, I have an H5 on my keyring, a bit more portable..... 

Thread drift (apologies if offended)... A Harrison clock keyring is so 'unhip' and 'yesteryear'...

A few years ago I purchased some of these for my sixth-form students so that they could become better acquainted with 'modern physics'...!!!

'Triggered' by the 'Stern-Gerlach' thread I've linked to the 'Bertozzi' experiment. When starting teaching relativistic effects I used to show this to the students... behind a few comments about gender, accents, and dress codes there was always admiration for attention to detail and rigour in this video, and a realisation of the meticulous nature of frontier science.

https://education.jlab.org/scienceseries/ultimate_speed.html

I believe that one of Bertozzi's daughters was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry.

There are some interesting resources from this site.

3 hours ago, scotty1 said:

Good captures 

Was this on Sunday about 9pm? 

Monday... 9.0p.m. -9.30 p.m.

Sadly I missed Sunday.