There is a fantastic display of the Aurora at the moment here in the far
north west. As skies clear in other places, this should be a very good
night to observe. It is going from the northern to the southern horizon.

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"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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There is a fantastic display of the Aurora at the moment here in the far
north west. As skies clear in other places, this should be a very good
night to observe. It is going from the northern to the southern horizon.


Ruined by those blasted street lights here!

Having said that though, looking to the north now I can make out a faint white
glow which is unusual in that direction. Reminiscent of the light cast by a
bright moon. No other colours visible unfortunately.

Mike, any chance you have a digital camera at the ready?

J.
Dublin

Sky is very light to my North, white/green glow... unusally bright for this
direction.

Tom
Danbury, Essex (106m)

"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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There is a fantastic display of the Aurora at the moment here in the far
north west. As skies clear in other places, this should be a very good
night to observe. It is going from the northern to the southern horizon.

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Too much cloud here in Whitefield. Having said that, I'm sure I saw a greenish
glow where the cloud temporarily broke up about ten minutes ago.. Unfortunately,
it could've been my imagination as well :-(

Paul.

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:49:49 +0000, Tom wrote:

Sky is very light to my North, white/green glow... unusally bright for this
direction.

Ditto in south-east Cambridgeshire -- but only just peeping over the top
of a cloud-bank :-(

Lots of sodium-vapour-orange low cloud visible too :-((((



Mike.

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:45:01 -0000, JCW in
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Ruined by those blasted street lights here!

Having said that though, looking to the north now I can make out a faint white
glow which is unusual in that direction. Reminiscent of the light cast by a
bright moon. No other colours visible unfortunately.

Mike, any chance you have a digital camera at the ready?

Hi Joe

Yes I have, but had to give myself a crash course in manual settings:-)

I did most of these at f2.8 over 15 seconds, once I had learned how to do
it. Sadly, I missed the searchlight effect that was clear a little
earlier.

http://www.mtullett.plus.com/29-oct/

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:45:01 -0000, JCW in
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Yes I have, but had to give myself a crash course in manual settings:-)

I did most of these at f2.8 over 15 seconds, once I had learned how to do
it. Sadly, I missed the searchlight effect that was clear a little
earlier.

http://www.mtullett.plus.com/29-oct/


Cheers Mike - thanks for sharing those. The first and second frames look
impressive with the green curtain effect. I can sympathise about the settings. I
have a good Canon digital myself but in the evening or at night all the settings
in the world won't protect from the dreaded shakes! Had to buy a tripod.

All's quiet overhead now. The kids were out earlier and missed the highlight,
forgive the pun. Trying to tell them what they missed just didn't register...if
I told them what they missed on the Simpsons I would have had their undivided
attention!

Sad really as this doesn't happen too often and tonight we had a nice clear sky
to view what was visible.

Until next time...

Mike Tullett wrote here on 29 Oct 2003:

There is a fantastic display of the Aurora at the moment here in
the far north west. As skies clear in other places, this should
be a very good night to observe. It is going from the northern to
the southern horizon.

*sigh* Niggly light rain and drizzle since sunset, almost without a
break. Oh well, at least if it does clear up later at an appropriate
time, then north is a reasonably dark direction from here.

Bewdley, Worcs.

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:17:11 +0000, Mike Tullett
wrote:

There is a fantastic display of the Aurora at the moment here in the far
north west. As skies clear in other places, this should be a very good
night to observe. It is going from the northern to the southern horizon.
Going on above edinburgh. Unfortunately bad camera equipment plus some
street;ights dont permit photos

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:07:49 GMT, Mike Watson
wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:17:11 +0000, Mike Tullett
wrote:

There is a fantastic display of the Aurora at the moment here in the far
north west. As skies clear in other places, this should be a very good
night to observe. It is going from the northern to the southern horizon.
Going on above edinburgh. Unfortunately bad camera equipment plus some
street;ights dont permit photos



The sky has just cleared in Troon and it's visible from the N/NW
horizon to directly overhead. First I've ever seen!


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Paul