Aurorae likely tonight!!

[Elp]

Graphs jumped up to 800nT, but thin cloud is coming in

[WolfieGlos]

7 minutes ago, John said:

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

Glad I don't have to be up early !

Ditto! 🤣 We had the magenta streaks to the north east which have now disappeared but….

22 minutes ago, iwols said:

Thanks Chris north or straight up

It was north east, but northwest is still showing red now for me:

[raadoo]

It seems entirely unlikely that we should ever see an aurora at 46 degrees north, but there it was tonight.

Started out as a massive deep red cloud and just before disappearing it did a nice song and dance in purple and greens.

Sol's CMEs definitely gave us a show for tonight.

[Elp]

5 minutes ago, WolfieGlos said:

northwest

There was just a bright meteor just before I pressed the start button, doh

[WolfieGlos]

3 minutes ago, Elp said:

There was just a bright meteor just before I pressed the start button, doh

I literally just caught it after changing batteries! Came back after putting the old one on charge and saw it on the screen 

Colours a lot more vivid and bright on the camera screen. Suspect it’s losing it from RAW to jpg conversion when copying the image over wifi to the phone. Shame, I’ll have to review them all later. But the streaks are still visible now. 

Edited May 11 by WolfieGlos

[iwols]

Well off to bed up in two hours hope you get plenty more guys

[WolfieGlos]

2 minutes ago, iwols said:

Well off to bed up in two hours hope you get plenty more guys

Get some sleep for all of us 🤣

Aurora app is now saying disturbance is 972nt again 😳 This is going to be a long night! 

[Elp]

It's cooler than indoors

[Kon]

 

[WolfieGlos]

We’re in business again, HUGE pink streak to the north!

[Space Hopper]

Back upto 972nT on the aurorawatch UK app.

Apparantly the KP scale has been maxed out (Level 9)

[Elp]

The whole sky looks purple on screen, can't tell if it's a lens abberation at times

[Ibbo!]

8 minutes ago, Elp said:

The whole sky looks purple on screen, can't tell if it's a lens abberation at times

Same here

 

[Elp]

Over 1000nT now higher than the one at 11 but don't really see anything now

[WolfieGlos]

Aurora app is now saying disturbance is over 1050nT! 

[WolfieGlos]

1 minute ago, Elp said:

Over 1000nT now higher than the one at 11 but don't really see anything now

Not yet, but I still have a huge area of various colours to the north east.

The huge pillar I mentioned earlier spanned from zenith to beyond the pole, and was shadowed with a red outer streak too. 
I wonder if the 1000 is catching up, or if we’re in for a bigger show to come! 

[Elp]

I'm tempted to continue but imaging clouds now...

[Ratlet]

Currently quite far north, looks like it is Canada's turn

[Ibbo!]

wonder if the high cloud has something to do with the purple or is it overload

 

[Elp]

Really don't know, looks like clouds ended play now.

[Ibbo!]

Can see a blue dome to the NE on the all sky cam

 

[Elp]

Alas, east is a no go for me due to "essential street lighting".

[Ibbo!]

Streamers w to N

[MalcolmP]

15 minutes ago, Elp said:

Over 1000nT now higher than the one at 11 but don't really see anything now

I was thinking the same, , ,  until just now when I am seeing pinks increasing again in the S and SW  (I dont have a view from home of the N  )

Edited May 11 by MalcolmP

[WolfieGlos]

Back in business, huge eye visible streaks in the sky again.