Aurorae likely tonight!!

[DaveL59]

Looking at one of mine at the min and...

 

Even naked eye I could make out the red tinge to the thin high cloud and the greenish blue in the sky, WOW 🙂 

[Kon]

[Stu]

Stunning here, I drove just out of town and what a difference. Really clear, subtle pinks and greens visually but very strong on camera. Cant quite believe I’ve seen them from this far south. Amazing to see them change constantly, almost imperceptible but happening all the time.

[Paul M]

Allsky camera just now. Wall to wall.

Home sky is calming down. Less definition but auroral glow everywhere!

[MonsterMagnet]

What a show, even comes up well on the phone camera in central London (zone 2).

MM

 

[pipnina]

Just got back in from my own aurora watching in south devon near Plymouth

Some DSLR shots and it looks stunning!

I never thought in my life there'd be a visible aurora above my house! People spend thousands on week long tours of the arctic and don't see this

[Enceladus Dan]

Been away for a long time, too busy with work or bad weather. But grabbed these with my phone. Absolutely over the moon, first time I've seen the aurora borealis and I'm blown away. Taken down in Winchester from my garden. 

[ONIKKINEN]

Craziest thing i have probably ever seen. City conditions, nautical twilight but still very obvious naked eye purple and green.

The peak was an hour ago, skies have now quieted down a bit.

Images are straight off the phone (Pixel7), no editing at all. 3 or 5 second exposures, not sure, wasn't paying attention too much.

[Elp]

Didn't think I'd ever see it from here after a few attempts trying to see it. But the graphs didn't lie and the one around 1000 nT was a sight to see, I suspected something was happening as the north sky was imaging green, then overhead the wisps of cloud you often see when looking at the milky way, concentrated vision then made out pink/red hues like a giant tulip in the sky which then sort of shaped into the Seagull Nebula, but something like 90-120 degrees of the sky. Amazing. Was also fun as it lasted a while and managed to get a lot of images and footage.

[astronymonkey]

Fab display tonight. Here's some photos from our garden .

[Budgie1]

Nice show from here in Fort William, although normally we get the Aurora from the North. Tonight is was overhead and more towards the Southeast.

Anyway, here's some shots from tonight using Canon 2000D at ISO 800 and ISO400 for 10 seconds.

[Adreneline]

Lincolnshire Wolds:

 

Canon G5 MkII

[mcrowle]

Just come in for a warmup and a cuppa. Had found a spot with a clear view North, high above the village. What a display!

Regards, Mike

[iwols]

Quiet at the moment 

 

Edited May 11 by iwols

[astronymonkey]

Never seen this before  kp9 !

Looking good for lighting up again in next 30mins or so .

 

[WolfieGlos]

Wow, I never seen anything like that before. The reds and greens were visible to the naked eye, milky like streaks all over the sky. Every direction I photographed the aurora was there. What a joy tonight has been to behold.

I actually the scope set up ready to image tonight but forgot to start it running (not that it would have been any good anyway!) such was I in awe of what right in front of me. 

Some pictures straight from the camera:

Edited May 11 by WolfieGlos

[iwols]

Up at 4.30 but just want to see it one more time

[iwols]

Looks like thin cloud coming in

[WolfieGlos]

Aurora has just started here again! What a night!

[iwols]

1 minute ago, WolfieGlos said:

Aurora has just started here again! What a night!

Thanks Chris north or straight up

[Elp]

Look north around 30-45 degrees in altitude, pillar extending vertical purple red. It's extending up now near zenith

Edited May 11 by Elp

[TakMan]

Seen in light polluted Lichfield also - thanks SGL'ers for posting updates.

Did have the imaging gear out but there was a thin layer of cloud so although the camera was cooled, on target and guiding, I never bothered to start imaging - the aurora was way better anyway!

Thankfully the old Nikon D3 still had some juice in the batteries as I scrambled to get it, tripod and cable release! 6 seconds @ f/2.8 14-24mm Nikkor lens @ 14mm ISO500

Pointed the thing virtually straight up as wanted a bit of a 'house portrait' for some scale - it was like being back in Norway... to get the corona as well - amazing !

 

And some more - off to bed now... gone a bit too hazy to see anything more apart from faint colours...

Damian

 

Edited May 11 by TakMan

[John]

15 minutes ago, WolfieGlos said:

Aurora has just started here again! What a night!

Yep - just started to see those "pillars" of light again here too.

Glad I don't have to be up early !

[Elp]

Seems to have faded again

[Davesellars]

Yep it was just visible here also..  Some nice waves of green to the North and purple / pink pillar to the South East.