Aurora alert, tonight 12th August - currently kp index = 8

[Shimrod]

Possible aurora tonight if this keeps up, it's forecast to continue for a few more hours so we might get lucky.

[Paul M]

The Met-O forecast is for a lot of clear sky for NW England. right now though it's not looking promising. I'm working a night shift so will get some opportunity to have a look. 

[Shimrod]

43 minutes ago, Paul M said:

The Met-O forecast is for a lot of clear sky for NW England. right now though it's not looking promising. I'm working a night shift so will get some opportunity to have a look. 

Mostly clear here, although I will be travelling a few miles into surrounding farmland for some darker skies.

[scotty1]

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/specialist-forecasts/space-weather 

 

[Stu]

Dropped back down again now unfortunately 

[Shimrod]

And starting to get quite cloudy here -there's now a lot more cloud than clear sky. 

[Paul M]

My remote sky is improving!

[Paul M]

The Cumbrian sky is pinking up again.

[900SL]

Intense

[Craney]

Going red again.....

but magnetograms are not fluctuating significantly....

[Paul M]

Grabbed a few hand held phone shots from a high vantage point at work.

Nothing exciting..

[Pixies]

Out-shining the spotlights from Edinburgh Castle:

[andrew63]

View from the garden again just before 11pm -  two nights in row with aurora and meteors! 

[Paul M]

The display peaked quite sharply it seems. this is how it looked in Cumbria.

[bdlbug]

Out this evening with NNHS astronomy section at dark(ish) site in Northamptonshire to view Perseids and we caught some Aurora as well 

Bryan

[AstroNebulee]

It was quite a display of Aurora last night which peaked around 23 30 will pillars visable to the naked eye here in North Cornwall. A few Persied meteors seen but not as many as hoped from my dark site location in the village. 

Best of the Aurora images 

Single 20sec exposure straight off the camera 1600iso Canon 600D and Samyang 14mm f2.8. 

Cheers 

Lee 

[Paul M]

Hot off the press, last nights auroral timelapse.

 

 

[scotty1]

Phone shot 23.30 12th August 

A slight pink hue was visible by eye, with silver pillars moving. 

Saw a bright Perseid fireball in the South with orange head and green trail about 00.25, out of shot 😏

 

Edited August 13 by scotty1

[chiltonstar]

A bit of a show here - came and went several times, but a patch was still visible at 3 am when I looked out for the conjunction.