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Possibility of seeing the Northern Lights over the next couple of nights ??

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    rainyrun
    Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭rainyrun


    I am heading northwards on friday evening.. hope somethings is still visible then.. thanks for sharing:D


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    eskimocat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭eskimocat


    Chicken Run wrote: »
    apparently.....
    Something I'd love to see, sadly I'm probably not far enough North.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12485104

    That makes interesting reading, Thanks :D


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    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    Chicken Run wrote: »
    apparently.....
    Something I'd love to see, sadly I'm probably not far enough North.
    I pointed out on another thread yesterday that the aurora was visible all over the country at the end of Oct 2003. Unfortunately the moon is full on Friday which would be a problem even if it is visible.


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    homersimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 361 ✭✭homersimpson


    Looking forward to seeing them :D:D


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    muckish
    Registered Users Posts: 610 ✭✭✭muckish


    Geomagnetic activity is very low tonight. Not much chance of seeing anything tonight. Full moon will drown out the feint aurorae if they occur, such as the green north horizon glow. Keep an eye out here for realtime data. http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/rt_activity/


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    aboyro
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭aboyro


    i saw them in 2003 from here!! really nice/weird sight:D


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    waterways
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭waterways


    The SpaceWeather gallery has a photo taken by Conor McDonald in Maghera (NI) on the 15th this month.

    Conor-McDonald1.jpg

    http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01feb11_page2.htm?PHPSESSID=ui8n6u8elqiqgbs71ev98v50s3


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    futonic
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭futonic


    That's a filter


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    positron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,283 ✭✭✭positron


    Anything celestial like this lost on us those who live in urban areas.

    What are the chances of success if we get a campaign going to turn off all the street lights say between 1am to 5am every night? There are dozens of reasons to turn off the street lights - and some against it - but mostly it's very beneficial in many ways. And we would get to see the sky properly for a change (something I sorely miss as I grew up in a tiny village with no lights and my memory of the sky has a easily visible band of milkyway even). May be this deserves a thread on it's own.


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    Auldloon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    I often seen them as a kid in rural West Clare, not colours as such but a glow advancing and fading on the northern horizon. Now I live in NE Scotland and have never seen them here! Raining here tonight:(


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    Wine Goddess
    Registered Users Posts: 550 ✭✭✭Wine Goddess


    Amazing pic thanks for posting....
    Anyone see any Northern Lights this week?
    (By that I don't mean Sinn Féin either!) :mad:


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    Chicken Run
    Registered Users Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Chicken Run


    Wine Goddess wrote: »
    Amazing pic thanks for posting....
    Anyone see any Northern Lights this week?
    (By that I don't mean Sinn Féin either!) :mad:

    no :(


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