The Northern Lights over Cornwall

[A7er]

I didn't know this was going to happen. Luckily a friend caught the show on camera.







Lee

[PaulR]

There's been an awful of of it visible over Britain this year but I haven't caught one, mainly due to wall-to-wall cloud cover. Must be a period of intense solar activity I guess - I used to know when the 11 solar cycle fitted in when I was younger but astronomy ceased to be a hobby about 40 years ago.

[crueby]

Very cool pictures!!  Wish we could have seen it here, but there were a couple thousand feet of clouds in the way. Same happened on the last total lunar eclipse, that passed directly over me, but that day was a high solid overcast, so all we could tell was that it got dark quickly, stayed dark a while, then got light quickly. Sigh. Someday...

[propforward]

Oh, very nice - and some lovely reds which is even more rare.

We had some here as well a while ago - first time I had seen them.

[CI]

That is cool !
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[Kim]

Very cool indeed!

Kim

[internal_fire]

I saw a news item a day or two ago that there was the biggest solar storm in 20 years. Lots of Northern Lights quite far from the pole.

Gene

[MJM460]

And as a magnet also has a South Pole, we got it here too.

Tuesday night, visible to the naked eye, but the phone camera picks it up better with a 10 second exposure.  (Newer phone, not SE).  Credit to my daughter.

You can see the Southern Cross in the picture, only visible in the Southern hemisphere.  Or perhaps very low latitude in the north in season.

Only visible with the camera for the next two nights, then darkness.

MJM460

P.S. We are at 38 S….

[Kim]

Beautiful picture!  Love the lighthouse in the shot

Kim

[bent]

I've seen the Aurora Borealis, twice. 

Once, 40 years ago, my brother and I sat on the hillside of our father's farm and watched the green curtain dancing in the distance. 

And again, some four or five years ago, my wife and I took a flight "over the pole" from Seattle to Frankfurt.  Somewhere over Greenland, I woke up and saw the weird green glow again in the distance off the right (Southern!!??) wingtip.  Took some iphone photos that have now been lost to the cloud.  F+*k you Microslop.

On this most recent big solar storm, my wife, our neighbors and I took a trip up to Mukilteo, where the northern view is mostly unperturbed by lights.  To no avail, couldn't see any Aurora.  Woke up the next day, and my brother sent me a text, dated about 3am - "the Aurora is up, are you?" 

Aw rats.  I was passed out asleep then.