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12 minutes ago, Paul M said:

My firstvaurora image!

Taken from rural Cumbria but overlooking the bright lights of Penrith.

It's woth taking more photos, as the Aurora is ramping up on the app.....

Thick fog here. 

Phone photo about 18.30GMT this evening.

The Aurora is still quite active, but fog has arrived now. Can't see the fog shifting tonight. 

The Aurora activity seems to be increasing again. 

Looks like the UK is in the wrong hemisphere this time. 

Mention of this on Spaceweather 

https://www.spaceweather.com/

6 minutes ago, skybadger said:

Have you a link ? I read an article in this but don't have it available any more. Since the moon will be old and the radiant is high it could be a very good but also quite faint shower sue to the slow speeds 

https://www.astropioneer.blog/2023/03/unusual-andromedids-meteor-shower-outburst.html?m=1

25/11/23  18.20GMT 

With a 96% moon  

Quite surprised I was able to see a hint of pink when I took this picture. Maybe the blue colour from the moon, contrasted with the pink. This would likely of been a powerful display without the moonlight. 

01.00 GMT

I didn't actually see this , as I was looking north at the time. But the camera picked up either a satellite flare, or possibly a northern Taurid. It looks white, usually meteors leave green or orange in the trails. 

13s ISO 1600 f3.5

This is strange as I edited some astrophotos taken by my 4a earlier in the year. The banding doesn't show up nearby as bad as the image above. I've tried cleaning the lens, doesn't seem to help. I know the pixel 4a is no longer receiving updates, not sure if that could be an AI problem with the camera. 

Golden Venus rising in the east.

05.00GMT Just managed to see one Leonid skimming past Capella between clouds.

51 minutes ago, AstroNebulee said:

Beautiful colours, they are all great. I really enjoy the first image the colours just pop. We'll done. 

Lee 

Thanks 

The colours in the first shot would of been amazing,  IF the clouds were not in the way! 

I've always used Snapseed to edit RAW photos on my pixel 4a. And Polish editor for jpg. Recently I've noticed annoying banding across the photo when trying to edit them with Snapseed. As soon as I open the photo in Snapseed the banding appears , ,haven't noticed this before to this extent, anyone else have this issue? 

It seems to be when changing the exposure or brightness that makes the problem worse. 

https://www.astropioneer.blog/2023/03/unusual-andromedids-meteor-shower-outburst.html?m=1

https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5980

https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=201741

I tried looking for comet 103P Hartley this morning using a short exposure with DSLR and tripod. Stellarium mobile has 103P Hartley at mag 8.3 I could not detect it. 

Using the same equipment I easily found comet H2 Lemmon, recently listed as magnitude 10.4 

The claimed magnitude is misleading for these comets. Is this par for the course with comets? 

Some phone and DSLR  photos from 5/11/23 

Looking west 

View in the Northeast

Overhead

North

I remember that night was fairly cloudy, and about 21.30 the clouds thinned out. 

About 21.45 the Aurora suddenly ramped up. By eye there were rays like searchlights, and a subtle red/green colour, the glow from the Aurora gently silhouetting the clouds. 

2 hours ago, Moonshed said:

You patiently wait for hour after hour then along come two together. They must be some form of interstellar bus.

Yes I was outside for about 25mins and saw one. Then went again for 30 secs to check for clouds, and saw another. 

It's around the Peak of the Taurids now, but these were not from that radiant.  

While looking for Comet H2 Lemmon ,I've seen two fast moving moderately bright meteors heading Southwest from cygnus towards Altair.

The forecast G2 storm seems to of Arrived. 

Obviously a lot of the country is now cloudy. 

One thing about Aurorawatch UK is that they lag slightly behind realtime sightings. As they update hourly, by the time they are showing orange or red, the activity can already be over. 

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

The Glendale app was already orange alert nearly an hour ahead of Aurorawatch.

There were a few reports of Aurora last night from Lincs and Northants. 

But this was not from naked eye observations. This was on camera after long exposures.

I think what people may of mistaken for Aurora on camera, was patches of misty low cloud with light pollution showing up orange/ green. 

The most reliable and accurate way I've found to see if Aurora is occuring, is the the Glendale Aurora app. 

https://aurora-alerts.uk/

From this evening 11/11/23 18.40 GMT

DSLR and 55-300 zoom, single shot 20s exposure ISO 3200.

Thin clouds arrived

10s iso6400

This is the BBC version of cloudy. 

Literally within 1min of opening the shutter it clouded up.

Managed to find it again, and sky is clearer at the moment. 

😉

06.30 11/11/23

Pixel 4a 

Moon, Spica, Arcturus and Venus

Got this shot of comet 2023 H2 Lemmon with DSLR and Astrotracer + 90mm Tamron macro lens

40 secs ISO 800 f3.2 

06.30 phone shot 

Venus and crescent 🌘

The seeing wasn't very good with high humidity.

Found it with my 90mm Tamron 2.8 and Astrotracer on K70 

40 seconds 800 ISO f3.2 (quick in camera heavy crop)