Northern Lights

[Zeta Reticulan]

This explains what I've been seeing the past few nights.

Aurora hunters were given a treat in the early hours of Monday when the Northern Lights created a display of "pillars and greens" visible to the naked eye.

A clear night sky, a set moon and several solar flares created the perfect conditions to see the aurora off the Norfolk coast, which, when photographed, also revealed purple hues.

The Northern Lights are caused by the interaction of the solar wind - a stream of charged particles escaping the Sun - and our planet's magnetic field and atmosphere.

~ BBC News

 

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

The Aurora Watch UK app sent a red alert on Sunday at midnight for potential Aurora sightings anywhere in the UK... Of course I went out in the garden barefoot and scanned the whole sky. Not a sausage (or Aurora). At least someone got to see it.

 

[TheycallmeRiver]

24 minutes ago, ScouseSpaceCadet said:

Of course I went out in the garden barefoot and scanned the whole sky. Not a sausage (or Aurora).

 

If you had seen both a sausage and the aurora it would have been quite a night.

[Zeta Reticulan]

I honestly didn't know what it was. I am thinking of sausages now though.

[TheycallmeRiver]

I'm rarely not.