Northern lIghts in se England?
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sherman said:
You could see grey streaks in the night sky in Edinburgh.
Looked a bit like dim search lights
There were a couple of minutes that I could see them quite clearly and brightly but had to go down to Arthur's Seat for reduced light pollution to see them.Looked a bit like dim search lights
I'm assuming someone has done themselves a mischief on Arthur's Seat going by how much time the helicopter spent circling the area.
Flumpo said:
So, quick question. It didn’t look that impressive at all to my naked eye. But I am a bit colourblind. Whereas my phone camera without any special settings says it looked like this, is it my eyes?!
Camera will pick it up better. All these nice photos, squint your eyes a bit and that's what the naked will see. eg, I could make out a light green and light purple in the sky, but the camera can bring it out even better. Squint your eyes a bit at my pics, that's pretty much what I could see with the naked eye.
Was really cool to see the Northern light for the 1st time ever. My son is into astronomy (me too tbh, but he's going to study astrophysics in the Autumn) so needless to say we were excited about it. Took loads of pics and time lapse videos.
I might never see them again so I'm delighted that their was minimal cloud around tonight.
I was watching it, trying to distinguish the colours and memorise it for about 20 minutes before I learned of the camera trick!
To the eye it looked noticeably green to the north, and outwards to the east and west it graduated purple and then red grape. Through the camera it was neon turquoise to magenta.
To the eye it looked noticeably green to the north, and outwards to the east and west it graduated purple and then red grape. Through the camera it was neon turquoise to magenta.
nessiemac said:
Yeah, like that! Edited by Hustle_ on Saturday 11th May 01:08
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