https://i.postimg.cc/9QjDc9pj/A7403009-Enhanced-NR-2.jpg 

Sadly I live too far south and have too much light pollution to see anything that good here

What is that shaft of light coming up about half way across the aurora display ?

I understand they have been visible down as far as North Norfolk.

Too much light pollution here until the street lights go off - so we missed it.

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That’s really good. It prompted me to look north and north-east but there’s still too much cloud here.

We call them the search lights they are very fleeting, but so bright you often see them first.

If you do a timelapse they phase in and out and flick about, all very strange.

I would say even if they aren't obvious a camera might pick something up especially the green layers.

Just use settings similar for stars.

Check this link for the data:

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

Thank you for the heads-up! I popped outside to see a lovely view of the moon, Venus and a few stars... and also the dawn light in the east, which would have obliterated any faint aurora. I'd forgotten it starts getting light so early on a clear day, as it's been so cloudy of late it's been gloomy even an hour later.

I must remember to check that site when I get up tomorrow morning, it's meant to be another clear night tonight.

I saw this too before I went out with proper camera, I thought it was a contrail being illuminated almost directly overhead but I have seen tendril like structures in other aurora photos.

It was fairly wide and straight running NW-SE.

Those photos were from someone nearby's phone.

https://postimg.cc/gallery/Dbxz24t 

It was this I think, very much like shown on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEVE 

Northern Lights shine over Yorkshire and Lincolnshire landmarks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-67332278 

Helen Willetts was showing some Weather Watchers photos from last night on the weather forecast on BBC1 a few minutes ago and mentioned these shafts of light which you caught in your photo by the look of it. They are called STEVE's as described in the link below

https://www.livescience.com/mysterious-aurora-like-phenomenon-steve-appears-during-strongest-solar-storm-for-more-than-half-a-decade 

You can easily see a stronger show with naked eye if there isn't much light pollution.

But if you weren't particularly looking you might hardly notice as it comes and goes