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- alistair February 29
- Betelgeuse January 25
- binocularview January 27
- Champagnerocker January 26
- iainb February 29
- kensamay January 29
- Marc_Rosson February 23
- slartybartfast February 22
northern lights
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So did any of you guys catch a glimpse of the aurora? The clouds rolled in here around 7pm monday night after i set my scope out and its been like that since! Other parts of ireland got a view though. Hopefully there will be more chances to see them this year as the sun is to be very active this year.
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Hi Stephen, I've had absolutely no luck with the northern lights, including the last time they were around a few months back. Cloud and rain every time...cruel !!
Hopefully there's still activity during the next night or two.
They even had the northern lights as a feature on Wednesday's Radio2 Jeremy Vine show.
It would be interesting to get people's descriptions and images if any members got a view. Check these out on the BBC website (jealous) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-16679422 -
I liked the apocryphal story that the northern lights were called the "herring flash" by certain old Scandanavian tribes, because they believed they resembled reflections of large shoals of fish.
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someone asked me today at work if I had seen the northern lights through my binos I mentioned the cloud and rain and then uttered something about them being seen best the more north you go ....they looked at my quizzically ! .....Ive just sent them Betelgeuse link to those stunning photos !
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Just seen the link of Betelgeuse from BBC, awesome..imagine coming out off that pub,you'd be wondering what you had to drink...LOL :)
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We went to Iceland tail end of January specifically to see this but afraid it was cloudy and wet the whole time we were there. Anybody else get a peek ?
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Never saw a thing in East Yorks although it was very cloud at that time :S :|
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I am too far south :(
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hey guys i live in glasgow and the only view of the lights was a purple sky to the n.w. too cloudy in the east, but spoke recently to a friend who lives in the outer hebridies (isle of barra) where the aurora is commonplace and even he says"beautiful " but totally taken for granted, after midnight light pollution is 00.1`%,
