Aurora alerts going through the roof for tonight.

[Woodbutcher]

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.

 

 

 

[Kenb]

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.

 

 

 

amazing....

[Woodbutcher]

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 .

[Woodbutcher]

Rule #1 ... remember to switch off AF on the lens ... 

Glad to have caught it though , however badly , the sky was so full that the 10mm lens was nowhere near wide enough ... !

 

 

 

[Woodbutcher]

No guarantees but the aurora forecast is looking good again for tonight ... https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

 

[Woodbutcher]

On 12/08/2024 at 18:05, Woodbutcher said:

No guarantees but the aurora forecast is looking good again for tonight ... https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

 

Same heads-up applies for tonight folks ... 

[Woodbutcher]

G4 magnetic storm predicted for tomorrow night , 10th-11th October 2024 .

With largely clear skies forecast across the UK there's a chance of another auroral display to match May's show.

[Christopherbirch]

Thanks for the 'heads up' , we are on the bottom edge but will have a look, we have seen them already this year, amazing shot

[Soulandy]

Just had a red alert for tonight. It'll probably cloud over later, you watch

[Greedy]

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

[Dylan]

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

[Soulandy]

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.

[Soulandy]

Got a small viewing in a field out in Dunham Massey around 8pm before they cam back around 10pm in the back garden and outside our house in a street filled with led lights and near the m60 motorway, amazing with the naked eye

 

[Dylan]

Didn’t manage to get a decent shot of northern lights but was pleased with this sunset.

 

 

[Woodbutcher]

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 ...