scotty1

Low cloud moving in now, a claggy night  hereabouts. Misty can't see any stars.

Just looking through those UKMON cameras, and there's a location named (nettleham s) I'm guessing that means the camera is pointing south? But the picture from that camera shows the plough. 

Alot of cloud arrived from the south recently, looks clearer in northern/western England. 

It must take a while to check your video for meteors. Do you have to watch them back in realtime? 

I noticed timeanddate doesn't list the Taurids in the meteor showers, the hourly rates are too low I expect.

Hopefully a couple of clear-ish nights coming up for eastern  UK Friday/Saturday for the Taurids, maybe early Leonids too.

I just noticed this had gone red by chance earlier by checking the Aurorawatch graph 

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/

I've now installed the AuroraWatch UK app. 

And I have the Glendale Aurora app. 

We just need the clear sky and crescent moon app 🤔

It's cloudy with a near full moon 👍

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/

5 hours ago, paulastro said:

That's nice, where is it taken, the church looks a nice building.

My friend calls it Thunderbirds 1 , it's Bury St Edmunds. 

Caught this with my phone about 17.30 

A bit late 

Here's one from the 13th August 

Anyone in northern England and Scotland could be worth trying for Aurora now

Foggy here visibility about 200 yards. 

Fog has dispersed, high cloud moving in 

Not sure if this is working. I think it's still around, but you may have to search around a bit.

https://download.cnet.com/Image-Composite-Editor-64-Bit/3000-2192_4-75207152.html 

https://www.downloadcrew.com/article/10556/microsoft_image_composite_editor_64-bit

It's likely to be very humid tonight. This is my take on things, a line from the Wash across to Liverpool, South of that line there will be clear spells, but some heavy showers for Wales, South west England and across to London.

North of that line it should be clearer, particularly in north east England, and most of Scotland. 

Ireland looks mostly clear 

https://en.sat24.com/en/gb

1 hour ago, Leo S said:

Jan Curtis is having a lot of luck. I guess they're getting lots of clear sky over that way!

I wouldn't mind those night skies, and the thunderstorms. A bit too hot though...

Hope it's ok to link this

Jan Curtis caught this, and the timelaps is amazing. Can also see the zodiacal light.

https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=189808

Yes and close to Taurus in February, so should be easy to find by then with a long exposure. 

The brightest one I saw yesterday was 02.20, I'm not sure if the peak is around Nov 5th ( natures fireworks) or some sources say that the Taurids will be active for another month or so. I expect the enhanced rates won't last as long. Only 3 Taurid fireballs on Spaceweather so you may be right about the peak. I use small portable camera mounts from open windows to get photos. It must be easier to have a dedicated camera permanently setup. If only we had a desert climate for a couple of weeks...

Clear last night so had a look from the garden. I saw 4 meteors in about an hour and 45 mins. They all fell in the north, first one was the brightest it was  yellow about as bright as Jupiter. The other three were about as bright as Polaris. They were slow/  moderate in speed. I had two DSLRs running, taking 15secs exposure one facing north,the other south for about two hours , with breaks to change batteries. I didn't get any meteors on photo. Looking rather cloudy for a while, so that's why I had a go last night. I'm not sure if these were all Taurids, but they were all in the north originating from about 80° above horizon. 

Hello Chris

Perhaps tomorrow night is slightly better, but with low pressure anchored to the west it's drawing up alot of clag and fronts. 

Scotland and northern England have had better luck with the weather. Quite a few photos of Aurora from those areas last night/tonight.

I've got my DSLR taking shots incase a Taurid fireball appears, another hour or so and the cloud and drizzle will arrive.

I've noticed a couple of times when opening the Glendale Aurora app, it has a message saying update "a new version of the app is available" however when I tap on the msg it doesn't seem to update,or install anything.  

Just wondered if anyone else has this msg?

Thanks 

The forecast isn't great but a few clear spells tonight. After that alot of cloud around  for the next week or so in  the UK.

1 hour ago, Leo S said:

It looks like they are getting their info from the IMO:

https://www.imo.net/

There are a couple of pieces there that are worth a look.

Are you the same scotty from UKweatherworld?

Hi yes I'm the same scotty 

I've just noticed your earlier post about the Taurid cycle 🤭 

Just read on Spaceweather of a possible Taurid swarm. 

We need clear skies now 

https://www.spaceweather.com/

2 hours ago, chemistorge said:

I like the effect!! This is my effort:

 

 

Cloudy at the end.

Are you using a tracked telescope for the movie?  It's good 👍

Luckily this was already underway when I suddenly remembered it. I had to place two ND photo filters over the phone to reduce the exposure. My phone decided it was mushroom season.

Then I did the same over my zoom lens on my DSLR. 

During the last two nights I've tried to see the Orionids. Alot of cloud around and very humid, a few short clear spells also. Managed to see three Orionids, one of them falling in the west was orange and visible through gaps in the clouds. The Orionids have never been very bright, or prolific from my experience.

Mars is a nice hue now that reminds me of an orange boiled sweet, or tree sap.