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1 hour ago, Woodbutcher said:

In case anyone's interested the flaring from the enormous sunspot I've been imaging has thrown a lot of stuff in our direction , and the storm arrived a short while ago and looks great for views of the aurora pretty much UK wide , weather permitting of course.

Here's hoping you have clear skies.

 

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amazing....

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Words fail me , an astronomical event occurs as forecast , under clear skies , and what a show it was too ... :hypo:

I've caught hints of the aurora in the northern horizon once or twice , but to see it stretching beyond the zenith and to the south of me , naked eye here in Suffolk ..... !

 Apologies to those who missed out , you're going to be fed up to the back teeth of seeing it plastered over every platform imagiable for the next few days ... :rolleyes:

Had a few issues photo-wise here , I'm out of practice messing about in the middle of a field in the dark with the camera not tethered to a laptop. In such a rush to get shooting with the display reaching right across the sky from West to East that I clonked the focus ring when panning about , caught the lights though which is what mattered to me ... :thumbsup:

Just ploughing through a couple of hundred CR3. files that the EOS 90D chucked out as I forgot to shoot in combo mode , but the inbuilt intervalometer was a godsend.

Will post up an animation/movie of all the better shots when the processing's done , in the meantime the Sun's about to appear so time to get shooting again before the monster spot disappears .

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Is there a particular time that is best to look and is it true that although it might not be visible to the human eye if you use camera on your phone it might pick it up? 

Or is this media rubbish??

Thanks Mick

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Just got red alert here but it’s quite cloudy hopefully it clears 

4 minutes ago, Greedy said:

Is there a particular time that is best to look and is it true that although it might not be visible to the human eye if you use camera on your phone it might pick it up? 

Or is this media rubbish??

Thanks Mick

Yes camera will pick it up better than eyes

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13 minutes ago, Greedy said:

Is there a particular time that is best to look and is it true that although it might not be visible to the human eye if you use camera on your phone it might pick it up? 

Or is this media rubbish??

Thanks Mick

Anytime after about 8pm when it gets very dark, although you could have a long and cold wait. Depends on location, any clouds knocking about, artificial lights from towns, street lights etc. And yes, in most cases cameras will pick it up but with the right conditions, we may get lucky.

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I missed too much of the last one faffing about so I left the camera indoors this time round , wrapped up snugly and sat outside most of the night just soaking up the visual spectacle as it danced around and ebbed and flowed over the entire northern hemisphere ... :wink:

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