Northern Lights - Wed night

[richardj]

I have just noticed the Aurora over Caithness - it is faint but clearly visible, hopefully the colours will get stronger later on

[Dadie]

Been out to get the cat in and there is a green glow dancing in the sky.
Phoned my parents to go out and look as they have better darkness than us(no street lights) to go see!
The street lights in the village plus the outside lights some of the neighbours have are killing my night vision to get a good view :(

[Kevin Milkins]

Great show from Keiss, I only let the dogs out for a pee and WOW!!

[gmcborgie]

We have a moonbow out by Bettyhill, it's amazing can even see some colours in it.

[Treud na Mara]

Thanks for that notice. I have finally seen them after nearly two years of living here. You Orgers are great !

[Liz]

I couldn't see them because of the flipping street lights! :~(

We got energy saving lights fitted recently and they are sooooo bright!

[cptdodger]

I couldn't see them because of the flipping street lights! :~(

We got energy saving lights fitted recently and they are sooooo bright!

Same here, they are like giant spot lights !! I think I saw them, but I'm not sure it could just have been a cloud !

[Liz]

Same here, they are like giant spot lights !! I think I saw them, but I'm not sure it could just have been a cloud !

They are awful and one is right outside our house and my bedroom! Even with blackout blinds some light still gets through :(

[richardj]

Just received alert from http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ saying their could be some Northern Lights tonight (Friday 11th Sept)

[cptdodger]

This is probably a silly question, but I have seen photos of the Northern Lights with some amazing colours, can you see them with the naked eye, or do you have to have a special camera to pick them up ?

[pat]

see them easily with the naked eye but colours seem to be highlighted more when on time delays but when you are watching there is so much to watch you can hardly take it all in if it is a very active night so photography is way of watching it properly and you see things you missed and how much you missed although you thought you were watching it all

[cptdodger]

see them easily with the naked eye but colours seem to be highlighted more when on time delays but when you are watching there is so much to watch you can hardly take it all in if it is a very active night so photography is way of watching it properly and you see things you missed and how much you missed although you thought you were watching it allThanks for that Pat, the next time there's word of them happening I will have to go somewhere without street lights, especially mine !!

[richardj]

If you are interested in night photography I found this youtube video useful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kC1nKlIPU0 - I still cannot successfully photograph the night sky or the Northern Lights even though I did take nearly 200 pictures, not one of them was in focus and that was using a tripod. Hopefully I will manage to take good photographs of the night sky sometime soon!
Below are some of my embarrassingly poor pictures of the Aurora from Sept 9th/10th, out of focus, sorry.

http://www.scrabster.eu/northernlights1.jpg

http://www.scrabster.eu/northernlights2.jpg

http://www.scrabster.eu/northernlights3.jpg

[cptdodger]

If you are interested in night photography I found this youtube video useful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kC1nKlIPU0 - I still cannot successfully photograph the night sky or the Northern Lights even though I did take nearly 200 pictures, not one of them was in focus and that was using a tripod. Hopefully I will manage to take good photographs of the night sky sometime soon!
Below are some of my embarrassingly poor pictures of the Aurora from Sept 9th/10th, out of focus, sorry.

http://www.scrabster.eu/northernlights1.jpg

http://www.scrabster.eu/northernlights2.jpg

http://www.scrabster.eu/northernlights3.jpg

Don't put yourself down richardj, they are very good. You can see exactly what they are !