I didnt even know about this until I read this thread late last night but it was all over. What time did it happen? I was probably in the pub but nobody there mentioned anything. 

From around 10pm until gone 3am when I decided to go to bed. Visible to the naked eye too 🙂 

I'm really impressed with the way this turned out. My video of last nights aurora, with a time-lapse of the night and some photos as well:

https://youtu.be/Fny2L53cUnU 

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Really excellent, Bolty - thanks for that. 👍

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Great show, but the colours tended to come out stronger on camera than to the naked eye.

I can’t believe I missed it. Our son took lots of photos from our house and it looks amazing!  

It always looks more spectacular through a lens. 

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I'm really impressed with the way this turned out. My video of last nights aurora, with a time-lapse of the night and some photos as well:

https://youtu.be/Fny2L53cUnU 

That is absolutely amazing. I wondered if you’d got it recorded.  Thank you for posting it!  

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Great Vid Bolty 👍
I'll be looking again tonight. It was pretty special to see but as many have said it is different once you use a camera on it, than just plain eyesight.  I could see light streaks, across the sky, and vaguely see the shocking pinks/reds, but once I had my phone in camera mode it sure made a huge difference.

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Thanks everyone! 😁

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Astonishing. Seeing red on these charts is rare enough, but 24 hours of it? I've never seen that before!
Original source: https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/  

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/aw.png 

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It is impressive! I've never seen such amplitude/duration on AuroraWatch. Must be 20+ years since I actually observed a decent display. Driving north from Spalding after an evening lecture there we suddenly realised what we were seeing in the sky ahead. We pulled onto a side road and got out to look properly. The first aurora I saw was in Iceland in the late 70s. I was cleaning my teeth outside the tent before turning in and suddenly saw what was happening above me. 😲 Memorable. It's the movement of the "curtains of light" that's so dramatic! Went on for a good while too.

Clear skies tonight, folks. 😁

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Pro tip, if you have eclipse glasses get them out and look at the sun.

Bottom right, you can see the monster sunspot that caused this! Its 15x the size of the earth and just visible to the naked (protected ofc) eyes.

 

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Pro tip, if you have eclipse glasses get them out and look at the sun.

Bottom right, you can see the monster sunspot that caused this! Its 15x the size of the earth and just visible to the naked (protected ofc) eyes.

 

Good idea, Q. I used to have 3 solarscopes in my lab and students who had finished their work could help themselves! Very popular.
This is a good webpage for solar images...
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html 
Here's yours:
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/hmi_igr/512/ 
 

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I think we are going to have some cloud spoil the seeing tonight, plus the alert status is now down to amber. I might pour myself a glass of some promising aurora-generating liquid!!!! 🥃🥃😬

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I think we are going to have some cloud spoil the seeing tonight, plus the alert status is now down to amber. I might pour myself a glass of some promising aurora-generating liquid!!!! 🥃🥃😬

Yes, indeed, it's gone very hazy and now cloudy here in Sheffield. Still, at least we've seen it. 

Sky News Piece:
"Earth has been rocked by the first extreme geomagnetic storm in two decades, creating a spectacular light show in UK skies and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere - but also posing a threat to communication networks, navigation systems and power grids.
Elon Musk's Starlink, which owns around 60% of the estimated 7,500 satellites currently in orbit, providing internet coverage around the world, has warned of a "degraded service" as a result of the phenomena."

Strongest solar storm in decades hits Earth - as Northern Lights to return to parts of UK tonight
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/strongest-solar-storm-decades-hits-124800795.html 

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Sky News Piece:
"Earth has been rocked by the first extreme geomagnetic storm in two decades, creating a spectacular light show in UK skies and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere - but also posing a threat to communication networks, navigation systems and power grids.
Elon Musk's Starlink, which owns around 60% of the estimated 7,500 satellites currently in orbit, providing internet coverage around the world, has warned of a "degraded service" as a result of the phenomena."

Strongest solar storm in decades hits Earth - as Northern Lights to return to parts of UK tonight
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/strongest-solar-storm-decades-hits-124800795.html 

This is truly terrifying. We have a monkey at the controls of a helicopter.
 

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The Aurora alert is red.

So nothing so far? Annoying as nice and clear perhaps for the last time for a while 

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This is truly terrifying. We have a monkey at the controls of a helicopter.
 

the first series of the sky series “Cobra “ with Robert Carlyle was about a solar  storm knocking out the power grid and resulting chaos as technology failed and plebs went mad 

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So nothing so far? Annoying as nice and clear perhaps for the last time for a while 

Amber Alert here at 01.30hrs.
https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

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Went up to Epsom Downs tonight, was busier than race days 😂

Nothing forthcoming, just the smell of weed drifting across the golf course and too many twerps paying drum and bass.

Gutted. Missed ‘87 as slept through it and went to bed last night at 8.30 after 27 holes of golf and a little too much sun (the irony!)

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