Author Topic: Northern Lights - possible tonight (3rd/4th Aug) mid-North Scotland (Read 7986 times)

faith0504 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 04, 2011, 01:51:17 pm »

It was too foggy here last night, maybe tonight

doganjo · « **Reply #16 on:** August 04, 2011, 03:21:55 pm »

What a dimbo

I read that it would be seen around Edniburgh, so i looked out last night towards Edinburgh and saw nothing - Edinburgh is South of me so I was looking South - should have looked to the North!

jaykay · « **Reply #17 on:** August 04, 2011, 08:08:18 pm »

Oops

Well tomorrow night I shall be camping in Oban, so if they're still active then I might see them - nothing last night $:-\$

Sandy · « **Reply #18 on:** August 04, 2011, 09:57:02 pm »

Womble, camping with a few glasses of pop and you will see it all!!!! Hope the midges aren't hungry!!

doganjo · « **Reply #19 on:** August 04, 2011, 11:49:04 pm »

I'm off out to look NORTH right now! Don't know why I was so dim last evening - they are the Northern Lights after all! And I am from Aberdeen! I should have remembered the song, shouldn't I?

doganjo · « **Reply #20 on:** August 04, 2011, 11:59:07 pm »

Not a flaming thing - except teat teh sky was a wee bit lighter but no movement or colours. I have seen them before when we lived outside Ellon - no street lights, right at the top of a hill, went upstairs and looked out the side window, and it was absolutely beautiful. streaks across teh sky of blues, purples and yellows, moving in ripples. We were both so enthralled that we totally forgot about taking a photo or film of it.

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #21 on:** August 05, 2011, 12:19:43 am »

Quote from: Crofter on August 04, 2011, 12:06:20 pm

There was definately a pinkish light in the North Eastern sky, well towards the horizon, last night. It was changing in intensity and shape all the time, but could not definately identify it as anything apart from "unusual".
Thats the Orkney/Shetland area from here. Anyone there see anything? Or did you just have a big bonfire?

Well I could write exactly the same words as Dave for this evening here about half an hour ago; fifteen minutes ago the light on the northern horizon disappeared. I'm not sure if it was really Aurora or whether it was just that the cloud cover was not quite a blanket and then came all the way down. But there did seem to be an occasional moving shimmering thing going on. BH thought much the same - and then went to bed because last time he saw the lights (about 20 years ago I think) they were all across the sky.

Womble · « **Reply #22 on:** August 06, 2011, 06:53:57 am »

Still worth keeping an eye out folks. Here's the latest forecast:

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Auroral activity will be high(+). Weather permitting, highly active auroral displays will be visible overhead from Tromsø, Norway to as far south as Oslo, and visible low on the horizon from Moscow.

Forecaster Comments: The effects of the solar events of the past 3 days are have been arriving at Earth and should provide aurora viewing for the next 3 days for the northern tier states in the US, north of England, southern Scandinavia. The skies should be dark enough at midnight south of 60 degrees N Latitude to see this aurora. The aurora should reach as far south as Chicago, if the present activity continues.