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Aurora - UK Tonight Feb 26th

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Off the camera lcd  

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Here's a few I got earlier.  Please bear mind my DSLR is about 18 years old and not very good in poor light! My daughter's is much nicer, but it was out of charge! My neighbour's mobile phone was

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Here's what I got from Devon Pity about the moon, and pity about Cullompton too for the light pollution... (no offence to any Cully's out there..) James

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Last night the humidity was relatively low compared to our usual damp atmosphere. I think this helped the sightings of Aurora. When it's humid the light pollution domes from towns flare up. 

I missed the first round at 9 pm onwards, I was out taking photos of Jupiter and Venus untill 8.30 pm, but had to get home to make meal and sort pets out. 

Decided to go out again about 11.30 pm . My camera was picking the Aurora up but there was nothing to the eye. 

These are from the phone in astro mode 

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21 minutes ago, The Admiral said:

What sort of exposures/ISO were you using?

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For my latitude, last night's aurora was quite bright. I started with ISO 800 and 10 second exposure, ISO 1600 was too much, even with just 5 seconds exposure. I did take some with ISO 400 but generally stuck with ISO 800 and exposures between 10 & 20 seconds. Any more than that, on a fixed tripod, and the stars start to elongate and you loose the auroral filament detail and they just merge into one bright green curtain. ;) 

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Shimrod

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The forecast has updated on the NOAA website  - looks like the peak of the CME is going to arrive during daylight hours now rather than late evening.

 

From https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/3-day-forecast

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NOAA Kp index breakdown Feb 27-Mar 01 2023

             Feb 27       Feb 28       Mar 01
00-03UT       5.00 (G1)    5.67 (G2)    4.00     
03-06UT       6.00 (G2)    5.00 (G1)    3.67     
06-09UT       6.67 (G3)    4.33         3.00     
09-12UT       7.00 (G3)    4.00         3.00     
12-15UT       4.67 (G1)    4.00         2.67     
15-18UT       4.33         3.00         2.67     
18-21UT       5.00 (G1)    3.00         2.67     
21-00UT       5.00 (G1)    3.67         3.00     

 

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46 minutes ago, scotty1 said:

Aurora watch is red ATM 19.00 

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

 

Glendale app seems to be broken and has been most of the day (Showing server offline). Makes no difference as it's wall to wall cloud here - and forecast to be like this all week so I'll miss the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus as well, having watched them get closer over the last week.

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36 minutes ago, Shimrod said:

Glendale app seems to be broken and has been most of the day (Showing server offline). Makes no difference as it's wall to wall cloud here - and forecast to be like this all week so I'll miss the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus as well, having watched them get closer over the last week

The Glendale app was off for a while yesterday too, but it was working around 11pm- 1am. I thought it was too busy or something. 

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The MD just showed me a picture of green rays showing through a gap in the clouds across Morecambe Bay, so not far from me but I just checked my N sky and sstill cloudy :(

I'm also monitoring my non-astro webcam up in Cumbria, overlooking the glow of Penrith. It switches to mono in low light so not sure if it's picking anything up or not. 

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On 27/02/2023 at 04:47, ONIKKINEN said:

Just arrived back home from an imaging trip, not in the UK mind you, but we had the same Aurora but i would imagine a bit stronger as i am at 60N. These were by far the strongest i have ever seen, i could see these vibrant green curtains dance in real time across enormous swathes of the sky including at the zenith and south! Occasionally some pillars of green light appeared as if out of nowhere and disappeared, as if there was some kind of celestial bombardment of light. I now understand where all the mythology of getting smitten or struck by something from the sky comes from! We had naked eye very obviously red Aurora too, which is a first as well. Typically only seen that through a camera, but this time it was like the sky was on fire. Funnily enough it ended up ruining a bunch of subs i was taking, but this type of ruining of the images is acceptable i suppose. Aurora gradient, hah, take that light pollution gradients!

Some crummy out of focus shots with a shaking hand and a phone (was actually rather difficult to image, as the direction of the lightshow was everywhere, and i was busy trying to pick the pieces of my jaw off the ground):

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Nice one Mr O. I popped out locally last night but couldn't see anything to the north, some cloud cover and moon didn't help. Where did you go to see Aurora?

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45 minutes ago, 900SL said:

Nice one Mr O. I popped out locally last night but couldn't see anything to the north, some cloud cover and moon didn't help. Where did you go to see Aurora?

The porkkalanniemi carpark marked in the Ursa observing locations map. There were 5 cars at one point all imaging/observing, its become more popular as of late but plenty of room anyway.

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