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Apparently there were massive storms last night.. I (in the same house) heard nothing!

Get outside and look to the right of the moon, you can see the Northern lights, it's really dim by eye but take a bit of a long exposure pic and it looks fucking amazing

It’s a lot more visible on a camera but still visible to the naked eye here.

Yeah, just been down to the end of the garden. It's crazy bright in photos - but once you've seen it on the photo it starts to stand out more to the naked eye...

I went out and was disappointed that it wasn’t fully dark yet. Only when I got my phone out did I realise what I could actually see. HDR photos must be what makes it so obvious on camera.

Saves a winter trip to Norway - quite a spectacle.

Very clear here tonight but more red/pink than green.

I took some pics with my SLR but didn’t really have time to do it justice. Was racing a failing battery.

Tried F2.8, ISO 100, manually focused on infinity with 30 second exposure. Came out OK but more in the Red spectrum. Reading up, I should have used a different film speed setting but I was trying to avoid noise

Was ok but I think a narrower aperture for longer might have yielded better results

It looks amazing. Completely forgot about it, really annoyed!

The sun must have been going hard. I took this from the top of a very light polluted hill in Auckland which is the northy/southy equivalent of Malaga:

I set an alarm to see if I could see anything, but our neighbourhood is too well lit at night, couldn't see anything or be bothered to go down the lane into the dark in the hope of getting a better look. I'll just have to see it the old fashioned way some day.

Glorious weather in Sheffield yesterday, 22 degrees and sunshine, finally. We were going to Bridlington for race the waves which is basically hot rods and customs drag racing along the beach. As we approached Bridlington the sun disappeared and the temperature dropped and then the fog

Had a walk to the beach and you could barely see anything so no racing took place

John wrote: Sun May 12, 2024 9:43 am Glorious weather in Sheffield yesterday, 22 degrees and sunshine, finally. We were going to Bridlington for race the waves which is basically hot rods and customs drag racing along the beach. As we approached Bridlington the sun disappeared and the temperature dropped and then the fog

Had a walk to the beach and you could barely see anything so no racing took place

Yeah yesterday was a failure, it was great today though!

Did you at least have a walk round the cars near the lifeboat station?

We spent the day in the pub instead, which wasn't too bad tbh

Yes, Sunday made up for Saturday's fog. The most surprising vehicle of the day for me was the old truck (1940/50's?) that launched down the beach like a scolded cat, guessing 4wd helped.

That truck was huge, but I didn't see anything get the better of it all day, there were some big power cars there but nothing could get the power down until near the end of the run.

I'm surprised no one came off the bikes, they had some big wobbles!

I don't know if it'll last long enough to see but there's currently a red alert on aurora watch; https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/

It's back to red...now, where's there a clear sky?

I was up, nothing here. Then again I thought last Friday was massively overrated

I didn't see anything, probably too much cloud. I don't think I saw anything last week either but the murkiness might have had a tinge to it

Just looked like whisky grey cloud with a touch of light pollution.

I expressed my dissapointment by having a piss



Didn’t think any of my own photos had captured anything until looking the next morning and seeing one with some colour, but very blurry ( I had drunk a lot )

integrale_evo wrote: Sat May 18, 2024 10:48 am Just looked like whisky grey cloud ( I had drunk a lot )

You got a better result than I did. That needs to go to Smith.

(It might help if, after eleventy+ years of "I must get a new 'phone", I actually got one ).