PeterStudz Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 I’ve got the Dob out. Seen it now… I just hope all these beams of coloured light don’t interfere with my observations! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Spock Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 I've been waiting a long time for a clear night and now we get this 😡 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixies Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Of all the shots I took (and I took a lot!) - this one is the most striking, I think: 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Splitter Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Hard to believe that I witnessed that in my own back yard. Always thought I would need to go Iceland to see them. The moon also looked good tonight bless it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Waited nearly 20yrs since the last (and only) time I’d had a good view. Phew! Hope we get another one a bit earlier I the evening in the darker nights of autumn for the youngest to have a look. peter 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeTheNuke Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 Saw strong shafts of light here in Bedfordshire, and hints of colour. Unfortunately all my pants tablet has recorded is sensor noise! And I saw the best meteor I've ever seen! Towards the east. What a night! And the sun wasn't too bad this morning either. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulastro Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 (edited) Had good strong auroral activity from 11.04pm to 12.10am when it started to die down. Still less strong activity when I came indoors at 1.20am. Below are some of many pictures taken on night mode with my mobile phone, hand held. Edited May 11 by paulastro 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epick Crom Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 Wow, you guys in UK are sure getting an amazing show with the aurora🧐🤯 I'm green with envy! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vroobel Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 One of many pictures. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IB20 Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 5 hours ago, lunator said: That is the Aurora 😁 I had the same feeling as I saw the sky slowly 'mist over' from the north. It suddenly clicked what it was. It is quite astonishing to see this. I took a pic of Spica being obscured by the Aurora. 😁😁 Yeah thank god I realised. Imagine if I’d have gone to bed with the hump. 🤣🤣 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 Morning and the storm is still going very strong, looks like many people will get some good views! peter 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu1smartcookie Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 (edited) 6 hours ago, Epick Crom said: I'm green with envy We would all have took your picture if you were here... Green and red were the colours of choice last night😀 Edited May 11 by Stu1smartcookie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epick Crom Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 18 minutes ago, Stu1smartcookie said: We would all have took your picture if you were here... Green and red were the colours of coffee last night😀 Now you are just rubbing it in Stu 😊✌️ Enjoy guys, I may just have to come up there to the antipodes😀 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik271 Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 This one is from Oxford at 1am when the second storm hit. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epick Crom Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 Wow, I've always wanted to see aurora. There is actually a slim 8% chance of seeing aurora australis tonight, despite my latitude of -32°. This speaks volumes of the awesome power of this current solar storm triggered by the monster AR 3664! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elp Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 To answer the topic, isn't it obvious? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterStudz Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 Wow… what a night. Or was it morning? I ended up staying up all night… M13, the ring nebula and for the first time this year the dumbbell, ISS transit, the brightest shooting star I’ve seen in a long while - I think it might have been the same as @LukeTheNukesaw, travelled approximately east to west. Just a lot of time simply looking up added by a couple of small glasses of brandy. I’d run out of whisky And that damn “light pollution”. Pictures taken as I was packing up at about 3:50am. The images of The Plough taken about 30 seconds apart on my phone. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeTheNuke Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 (edited) 20 minutes ago, PeterStudz said: Wow… what a night. Or was it morning? I ended up staying up all night… M13, the ring nebula and for the first time this year the dumbbell, ISS transit, the brightest shooting star I’ve seen in a long while - I think it might have been the same as @LukeTheNukesaw, travelled approximately east to west. Just a lot of time simply looking up added by a couple of small glasses of brandy. I’d run out of whisky And that damn “light pollution”. Pictures taken as I was packing up at about 3:50am. The images of The Plough taken about 30 seconds apart on my phone. Lovely pics! I regret that I didn't check again later in the night. I thought I checked the aurora alert site and it looked over and done earlier in the night (well, morning), but my bad. D'oh, I was awake for a while, as well! The shooting star I saw was travelling west to east, starting very much in the east, and burning out towards the eastern horizon. My wife and son also caught the end of it, which was ace. I think I caught most of it. It was amazing, multiple burning fragments, a real, sparkling firework! How funny that it happened the same night. Or maybe I just don't look up enough 😀 Damn, when this hobby is good, gosh. It takes your breath away. I've been enjoying the sunspots again this morning. Thin cloud here, which is a shame, as I couldn't see the big prom making a break for it. Still, a bonus to see that amazing active region again. Thanks everyone for posting your pretty pictures, they all look amazing! I've just got blooming sensor noise. #shouldhaveboughtanexpensiveappleorsimilarandnotacheapytabletandmycheapphonedoesntevenhaveacameralol Edited May 11 by LukeTheNuke 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterStudz Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 11 minutes ago, LukeTheNuke said: Lovely pics! I regret that I didn't check again later in the night. I thought I checked the aurora alert site and it looked over and done earlier in the night (well, morning), but my bad. D'oh, I was awake for a while, as well! The shooting star I saw was travelling west to east, starting very much in the east, and burning out towards the eastern horizon. My wife and son also caught the end of it, which was ace. I think I caught most of it. It was amazing, multiple burning fragments, a real, sparkling firework! How funny that it happened the same night. Or maybe I just don't look up enough 😀 Damn, when this hobby is good, gosh. It takes your breath away. I've been enjoying the sunspots again this morning. Thin cloud here, which is a shame, as I couldn't see the big prom making a break for it. Still, a bonus to see that amazing active region again. Thanks everyone for posting your pretty pictures, they all look amazing! I've just got blooming sensor noise. #shouldhaveboughtanexpensiveappleorsimilarandnotacheapytabletandmycheapphonedoesntevenhaveacameralol Thanks! As you say “Damn, when this hobby is good, gosh”. And another example of how being patient and not being too frustrated with the weather pays off. It’s been so cloudy recently - we were really lucky to get this on a cloudless night. The fireball I saw sounds similar to your description but mine was going the complete opposite direction! So could not have been the same. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 …. Knew I shouldn’t have quit to bed at 12:30… should know by now with this hobby… keep going till the sun comes up! Was the early morning ones as good as the 2330 ones? Peter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterStudz Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 (edited) 10 minutes ago, PeterW said: …. Knew I shouldn’t have quit to bed at 12:30… should know by now with this hobby… keep going till the sun comes up! Was the early morning ones as good as the 2330 ones? Peter I should be exhausted, but very much buzzing! I wouldn’t say that the morning ones were quite as good. However, some were while I was at the eyepiece. Taking a break and looking up I could see the beams plus some colour directly overhead. I was facing south so it was decent! Edited May 11 by PeterStudz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeTheNuke Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 (edited) 21 minutes ago, PeterW said: …. Knew I shouldn’t have quit to bed at 12:30… should know by now with this hobby… keep going till the sun comes up! Was the early morning ones as good as the 2330 ones? Peter And for some of us, keep going when the sun comes up!!! 😁 Those spots look fab, and the big prom has made a break for it this morning. I was robbed of a view of the prom thanks to thin cloud, but I caught the remnants ten minutes ago visual only (pic below is from Gong), which are still quite considerable. Not with my camera, alas (five o'clock position, going, going, ...): Edited May 11 by LukeTheNuke 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterStudz Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 2 minutes ago, LukeTheNuke said: And for some of us, keep going when the sun comes up!!! 😁 Those spots look fab, and the big prom has made a break for it this morning. I was robbed of a view of the prom thanks to thin cloud, but I caught the remnants ten minutes ago, which are still quite considerable. Not with my camera, alas (five o'clock position, going, going, ...): Fab image! But in my defence I was out with the Dob yesterday during the day when I took this with my phone 😀 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Spock Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 After last night’s drama, today’s sunspots are equally spectacular. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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