The Great storm of May 10th Aurora

[Nigella Bryant]

Here are some of the images taken during the Great storm from South West of England. Images just taken with an Honor mobile phone between 20 and 30 seconds exposed at ISO 1000

[Vroobel]

Beautiful! 🙂 Am I right in my conclusion that you weren't able to capture the exact 'source' of the pillars? I mean it looks like the lower latitude the more 'parallel' the pillars are. 

Edited May 17 by Vroobel

[Nigella Bryant]

31 minutes ago, Vroobel said:

Beautiful! 🙂 Am I right in my conclusion that you weren't able to capture the exact 'source' of the pillars? I mean it looks like the lower latitude the more 'parallel' the pillars are. 

Yeah, that's right, the source of the pillars were more diffuse. 

[Vroobel]

But it seemed to change rather dramatically, how far I'm from you in Liverpool? The 'source' was very high, but I cannot say that it was close to the Zenith. It was nearly between Arcturus and Alkaid. Interesting. 🤔

 

[Nigella Bryant]

5 minutes ago, Vroobel said:

But it seemed to change rather dramatically, how far I'm from you in Liverpool? The 'source' was very high, but I cannot say that it was close to the Zenith. It was nearly between Arcturus and Alkaid. Interesting. 🤔

 

Lovely pic of a aurora crown. The crown was not visible although aurora could be seen all around the sky apart from the zenith. 

[Vroobel]

Thanks. Anyway, it was a breathtaking phenomenon and I'm more than happy that it happened over our heads and the weather was enough gracious. 😍

[maw lod qan]

Those are all excellent images!

[Elp]

1 hour ago, Vroobel said:

The 'source' was very high, but I cannot say that it was close to the Zenith. It was nearly between Arcturus and Alkaid. Interesting. 🤔

"Source", I've done a panning video from west to zenith and it seemed to radiate from a wide area, when I first saw it visually I was looking directly up at zenith and it looked like it was there, but looking west it looked like from the tail of the big dipper.

Edited May 17 by Elp

[lunator]

I was in West Devon on the 10th. And the display changed significantly over time. 

There were clear pillars at times East and west. For a period of time there was a clear 'crown' near Arcturus. It seemed that just prior to this there was a clear arc of aurora from the east to west it felt like the front of the aurora passed over and moved south. 

Later it seemed to me slightly north again and the east west pillars became stronger. 

Excellent pics Nigella 😀

Cheers

Ian

[Pixies]

Here are a couple of pics of mine. The crown does appear to be between Arcturus and the handle of the Big Dipper. This was Edinburgh:

[Gfamily]

Here's mine, from North Cheshire, so not very far from Liverpool.

The most obvious star that's at about 8 o'clock from the auroral corona, is Arcturus. 

Sony A5000, F/3.5 - 5s exposure at 320 ISO.

Clearly, over enhanced, but it brings out the detail.

[Nigella Bryant]

54 minutes ago, Pixies said:

Here are a couple of pics of mine. The crown does appear to be between Arcturus and the handle of the Big Dipper. This was Edinburgh:

Nice of the corona crown. 

[Nigella Bryant]

6 minutes ago, Gfamily said:

Here's mine, from North Cheshire, so not very far from Liverpool.

The most obvious star that's at about 8 o'clock from the auroral corona, is Arcturus. 

Sony A5000, F/3.5 - 5s exposure at 320 ISO.

Clearly, over enhanced, but it brings out the detail.

Yeah, shows the corona crown really well, didn't see that from the South West of England, at least I didn't. I've seen it from outside Glasgow before but  not here. Interesting. 

[Stu]

Nice shots @Nigella Bryant, similar views to me though I could only take 3s handheld shots.

I didn’t think I caught any of the crown, but going back through my images I do have two. They also show it near Arcturus, consistent with what others saw.

[Nigella Bryant]

15 hours ago, Stu said:

Nice shots @Nigella Bryant, similar views to me though I could only take 3s handheld shots.

I didn’t think I caught any of the crown, but going back through my images I do have two. They also show it near Arcturus, consistent with what others saw.

Well done Stu, lovely captures. 

[AstroNebulee]

Amazing, I love the third one down such vibrancy. 

Clear skies 

Lee 

[Nigella Bryant]

18 hours ago, AstroNebulee said:

Amazing, I love the third one down such vibrancy. 

Clear skies 

Lee 

Thanks Lee, much appreciated, yeah, the third one down is my favourite too.