northern lights tonight

opti76

http://www.northumbe...=9&page_id=3921

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After dark, look for faint streaks of red or green light overhead. The aurora may appear like curtains of light shimmering in the sky. They may pulsate or swirl. If conditions are right, the aurora may be quite bright and the colours easy to see.



We don't usually see the Northern Lights in any spectacular way in Cork, but hopefully tonight with the strength of the solar flares and if the clouds stay away, we may be lucky. To see the aurora, place yourself in an area without street lights and you should hopefully see what is an amazing light show from nature.

Eirebear

read about it this morning, fairly clear night here in Glasgow but i reckon light pollution will kill any chances i have of seeing anything.

Thecageyone

I just took a walk outside to have a look at the sky ... Boy Jaysus it's could out there! Brrrr ...

nothing but cloud here in Meath I'm afraid.

eeyore2502

Only clouds to be seen in the sky here too in Dublin

Ricky91t

I see a slight bright area on the northern horizon, It's summer I have very little to do So if I have a chance or seeing this I'm gonna' stay up

makeup queen

Can't see anything here either.

John

Anyone know if they're to occur again tonight? I've a new tripod that needs to be broken in.

IamBlip

Good chance if the cloud stays away.....here's an english article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/05/northern-lights-england

Thecageyone

John wrote: »

Anyone know if they're to occur again tonight? I've a new tripod that needs to be broken in.

I've used my tripod ... twice!

I need an excuse too. if it's clear tonight I'll be watching out.

Ricky91t

I was up till 1am and then got back up at 4am, There was more of a glow on the north horizon at 1am, So I'll stay up till then, It'd be great to see it! This was explored on flickr today

Taken in south norway.

Thecageyone

Nice. 64 seconds makes sense, f/5 seems odd but he's managed a sharp shot there.

whyulittle

Dang. Someone has all my camera equipment for the day/night.

Double dang. I could have possibly been in Norawy this week.

Ricky91t

whyulittle wrote: »

Dang. Someone has all my camera equipment for the day/night.

Double dang. I could have possibly been in Norawy this week.

I doubt we'll see it here, But the second part, That's really annoying!

Sonya.Max

This what me and my husband captured at around 12:00 on N80 (Portlaoise Stradbaly)

Mountainsandh

Wow Sonya. Max that's really ***runs out the door to check the weather*** cool, pity it's raining and pitch black here
(South East : Corky/ West Waterfordy/Tipperary-ish)

Thanks for sharing that !

Thecageyone

Link doesn't work for me, can only see a broken link box, though my net has been acting up.

Nowt but clouds here all last night, I checked while putting the bins out.

John

It was cloudy up here (Derry) last night so no luck. Not sure if it's to happen again tonight but looks like it'll be more cloud anyway.

eeyore2502

Can't see a picture either

Ricky91t

Site it's hosted on seems to be timing out, Well the images are.

hbr

Geomagnetic activity has fallen since the peak around the 3rd of August.
We probably won't see a visible aurora in the next few days.

If you like playing in the dark, the Perseids meteor peaks
in a few days. I must remember to drag out my tripod on the
12th. Early indications are that it will be good this year. I
am already hearing lots of meteor 'pings' on VHF radio.

Sonya.Max

Strange.. the image is showing for me))

Actually, its looks like ther is a problem on that site.
Uploaded to pix.ie

whyulittle

Clear night last night, nothing to be seen though.

IamBlip

hbr wrote: »

Geomagnetic activity has fallen since the peak around the 3rd of August.
We probably won't see a visible aurora in the next few days.

If you like playing in the dark, the Perseids meteor peaks
in a few days. I must remember to drag out my tripod on the
12th. Early indications are that it will be good this year. I
am already hearing lots of meteor 'pings' on VHF radio.

As tonight was brillently clear (Tues 10th am) i did a web serching re: the above Perseids Meteors...and duely went outside with camera, tripod and cheapo remote. Didn't quite know what I was doing in the dark but after a few 30" exposures and messing arround with settings I eventully found my way a bit. Bulb mode 15min plus for light trails.

Anyhow didn't photograph a meteroite but I did see one while adjusting the camera :mad: so they're deffo out there (and that was in tha space of an hour) with more to come over the new few days . Will try again tomorrow night as the night skies are to be clear for the next few days rampping up for the 12th.

BTW This would make a good Boardsie meet up if people knew a light polution free zone.






You can see how light polution plays havoc with the long exposure, although I quite like the second one.

johnmcdnl

The metorites will peak tommorrow and the next night apparently..

around 100 meteors per hour is the rate that they usually come at and faster but after they peak they rapidily disappear after that - so better hope tommorrow and the next night are good nights

Riamfada

Im going to head out to the Hill of Tara tomorrow night to get some long exposures. Always a fantastic spot.