Aurora? Really?

[Paul M]

Saw this link on a non astro forum.

News to me!

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2015-02-18/your-pictures-of-the-northern-lights-as-seen-in-north-norfolk/ '> http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2015-02-18/your-pictures-of-the-northern-lights-as-seen-in-north-norfolk/

I'm using my phone so got limited functionality. But it looks like a current article and was posted as such.

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[Floater]

Nah. I'm not having it.

Those look more like paintings. i.e. From someone's imagination.

Always happy to be corrected, though ....

[Ptarmigan]

They certainly look like aurora.

Possible -

that link has a posting time date of 1pm 18th so they mean the night of the 17th ?

There was relatively extensive aurora in the usual northern lattitudes with these from Aberdeenshire.

http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=108739&PHPSESSID=k6ugmt08e7nmb0v8cdcnu76gv1

Or was that the night of the 16/17 ?

I know Aberdeen is a long way from Norfolk, but It wouldnt be the first time that Norfolk has been the only place in England that caugt a Scottish display !

[Paul M]

Seems amazing that a prominent display wasn't widely forecast or noticed by SGL members!

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[Beulah]

Strange.

I suspect the journalists found these files from nearly a year ago (Remember the Aurora from Feb '14?) and decided to rerun the story.

'Cos 'dey fink we no nuffink 'bout space, innit?

[RichM63]

It was all over radio 4 yesterday morning, but I was wondering why no one had reported it on here.

[happy-kat]

My understanding is the aurora was not triggering a high KP reading hence no emails etc. I have seen an incredible time lapse taken by Kris photography at Anglesea. From a few nights ago. It was solar wind and a hole in the megotrophere that was the cause.

[Beulah]

So it really happened?

[dph1nm]

Seen up at Kielder. There is a movie on the obs twitter feed:  https://twitter.com/kielder_obs

It was not visible from Durham though (we have an all-sky camera running 24hrs and nothing showed up).

NigelM

[Photosbykev]

It was visible from Anglesey/Llandudno/Trawsfyndd and photographed and there were a lot of fb posts from norfolk on the UK aurora group. Apparently the kp was low but the polarity was well south

[Paul M]

Well, there we go! Knock me over with a feather duster!

I really thought it was just a case of temporally confused reporting.

[Floater]

I'll be knocked down with you, Paul.

(Mind you, I still think those pics look like paintings.)

[Beulah]

It was visible from Anglesey/Llandudno/Trawsfyndd and photographed and there were a lot of fb posts from norfolk on the UK aurora group. Apparently the kp was low but the polarity was well south

Did you catch it, Kev?

Wish I could have some sort of sensor around here. It's the second time I've missed it.

[Photosbykev]

Did you catch it, Kev?

Wish I could have some sort of sensor around here. It's the second time I've missed it.

not myself but I personally know three people that did from those locations. Best pic of the lot was from Trawsfynydd

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[bejay1957]

Following various aurora sites on twitter, but never seem to get a meaningful alert for the UK