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  • Location: Devizes Wiltshire
  • Location: Devizes Wiltshire

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thats the current look of things may i ask what colour you need to see things guess its orange.. but what the blue mean? i know i sound like the noob of this... well thats because i am lol

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

I think the blue indicates normal. The black indicates areas the satellite doesn't cover.

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

This is also worth checking out....

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Green (NIL to low levels of auroral activity) to brown/orange (low to moderate levels of activity) to red (moderate to high levels of activity).

The met office webcams in Scotland have shown up the Aurora nicely before... not sure if they are still active.

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

This one was taken from the Eskdalemuir Met Office webcam during a big storm in Jan 2005(?). (The spelling mistake is not mine!)

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That was a severe storm from an X7 Flare. KP must have been 9

From Spaceweather.com

Giant sunspot 720 erupted again today (Jan. 20th 2005 at 0700 GMT), unleashing a powerful X7-class solar flare. The blast hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space and sparked the strongest radiation storm since October 1989.

It all began around 1700 GMT when a coronal mass ejection (CME) crashed into Earth's magnetic field. The impact sparked a severe geomagnetic storm that lasted for 6+ hours. High above Earth, a US Air Force DMSP satellite snapped this picture of the auroras spreading across Europe:Posted Image

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

Is there anyone in northern Scotland who's not clouded out?

This from Spaceweather:

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  • Location: Upper Tweeddale, Scottish Borders 240m ASL
  • Location: Upper Tweeddale, Scottish Borders 240m ASL

KP8 - Goodness me - *runs outside*

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

Bit far north still for you I suspect Shuggs. Perhaps the nT isn't squashed enough yet.

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  • Location: The Wash - Norfolk side
  • Weather Preferences: Storms storms and more storms
  • Location: The Wash - Norfolk side

aurora at Kp8 - is over n midlands

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

aurora at Kp8 - is over n midlands

Theoretically, but doesn't look like it is. I'd be happy to be wrong, though.

Sadly, from what's on Spaceweather, it looks like it's already subsiding... Bah.

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

Thin high level cloud overhead but still able to make out the constellations but much thicker to the northern hoizon so can confirm nothing visible here at all...as is often the case! http://nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

Lucky buggers if they are, although the NOAA satellite traces don't have activity anywhere near that far south.

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  • Location: Milton, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Location: Milton, Stoke-on-Trent

Yeah, it seems like the cloud is slowly clearing over me, so i might soon be able to see for myself, although i don't hold high hopes due to having the orange glow of Manchester in the sky to my north.

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  • Location: Newton-le-Willows, Warrington, Merseyside
  • Location: Newton-le-Willows, Warrington, Merseyside

Here in Manchester I have a horrible mirk blotting out most of the stars, and can't see anything to the North.

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  • Location: Milton, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Location: Milton, Stoke-on-Trent

Well it is Twitter and i wouldnt totally put my trust in it sometimes. But going from reports it seems people in Scotland with a clear view north can see nothing and people in the south can see it. That all seems strange to me, i wouldnt be surprised if theres a few people making things up tonight.

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  • Location: Devizes Wiltshire
  • Location: Devizes Wiltshire

well i for one can not see anything here but stars, damn people on twitter... ah wel drink abit more and take another walk in a hour i spose

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

Even though the KP is 8, and the map thingy shown a couple of days ago says that that should be visible from the south of the UK, that is only a rough guide: there are all sorts of other things like the polarity of the interstellar magnitude field (apparently), that have a major bearing on whether we get auorae or not. Fingers crossed that it suddenly expands beyond the Shetlands.

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  • Location: Newton-le-Willows, Warrington, Merseyside
  • Location: Newton-le-Willows, Warrington, Merseyside

On twitter there is a fairly credible claim (VirtualAstro) that they are seeing auroras in Berkshire.

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  • Location: Milton, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Location: Milton, Stoke-on-Trent

Yeah i saw that, Wilts, Hampshire and Berkshire i've seen mentioned over the last few minutes. And now ive just seen this " Spaceweather.com says #aurora may be visible tonight at ALL LATITUDES. Get yer tripods! " (Kevin Baird)

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

Even they don't seem entirely confident about what they saw.

Given the NOAA images have activity in this part of the world confined far to the north of Scotland by a fair way, I'd be inclined to be sceptical over reports anywhere south of Shetland/John O' Groats or similar. Does anyone have photographic proof to make me look like an eejit?

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