The Northern Lights are in my eyes ...

[alison]

... or in fact not.  I missed them last night.  Does anyone have any photos to share?

[taxi4ballet]

We had a fantastic view last night, but my photos don't do it justice I'm afraid. Very grainy and blurred - I am clearly no photographer!

 

[Sim]

1 hour ago, alison said:

... or in fact not.  I missed them last night.  Does anyone have any photos to share?

Gary Avis posted some gorgeous photos on Instagram and Facebook.  

[Ian Macmillan]

Nothing to see here tonight, I fear - And so to bed .....

[alison]

Sounds as though they're only going to be "up North" again tonight

[Jan McNulty]

https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2024-05-11/northern-lights-dazzle-channel-island-skies?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR26u2eD1xTCl7YCUqJOXkCDZkVQjtSAq3tDcpBZAhRpnYptZ99Zspcmt9Q_aem_AaGIeYh5oHTFYEUshczVU24hSmqQk-8huaL4iRedksPPWxkT_bw6KHMbnV8fApHgkqBjfTF2h9O86BHgXVQjcP-5#Echobox=1715428539

 

 

The video is amazing

[trog]

Aurora Australis is visible too. Even living in the suburbs, with all that light pollution, it has been visible. I'm hoping go go somewhere dark tonight on the coast for a better view.

[taxi4ballet]

I went out down the field Friday evening to have a look because my daughter said she'd seen some photos on our local facebook page, and I stared northwards for a few minutes and saw nothing. Then ten minutes later I got a phone call from dd again saying "Go outside and look!!!" so I went out into the garden, phone in hand, looking northwards again. "No," she said, "look up!!".

 

Light pollution and all, there it was. The sky was pink and mauve and green, a great long stripe from west to east, and right overhead. Incredible.

[taxi4ballet]

I was about to go to bed just now and I thought I'd pop outside just in case...

 

No aurora, but there was the International Space Station instead!

[alison]

Oh, don't tell me I just wasn't looking high enough on Friday night?

[taxi4ballet]

If it had been as bright as it was here, you'd have been hard pushed to miss it, to be honest! The thing is very fickle though. We got a much better view here than my friends did, who live 30 miles north of us.