Aurora Watch this Weekend

Supercell

Hopefully we get some clear skies, Aurora's should be visible all over the country at night for the next few days

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pauldry

Ya this weekend is a chance though Saturday night might be too cloudy along West . Saw a slight one the last time but this appears stronger.

sparrowcar

Last time one of this magnitude was forecast was 19 years ago... its a pretty big deal.

ednwireland

triffids arrive sunday

M.T. Cranium

Extreme G4 geomagnetic storm conditions observed in past 2-3 ours and current NOAA auroral forecast indicates Ireland and Scotland will see major aurora borealis conditions where skies are clear tonight. Peak time likely to be soon, 2300h to 0300h local.

DOCARCH

Not very exciting photo but aurora definitely visible (as a glow in the sky)

from Greystones. First time in around 20 years I have seen on my own doorstep.

Astro1996

Can see it from Tallaght too… first time in 20 years also! This is so exciting… :D

DOCARCH

Up at 3.45 for darkness into light so hoping sky a little clearer to see better display.

Oscar Bravo

Pretty cool here in Castlebar :)

Calibos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122122428#Comment_122122428

Same. watching from Bray beach, straight out to sea so NNW or NW

littlema

Much better on phone jpg. East/West orientation in south sligo

adocholiday

A really clear pink aurora overhead in Rathdrum now. Have never seen it in person without the aid of a camera before

Elmer Blooker

I’m seeing it now looking west

littlema

There you go....... Really good just looking up. Lots of oh wow moments

NIMAN

COrrect me if I'm wrong, but you can't see them with the naked eye?

littlema

Stunning

littlema

Last one. Don't want to hog the site.

TracyMartell

hartstown area

adocholiday

Picture from overhead now, South Wicklow

Storm 10

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Galway

adocholiday

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122122580#Comment_122122580

I can see it quite clearly but I'm very rural so zero light pollution here

PokeHerKing

D24, insane

Storm 10

Very bright over Galway City

littlema

Happy now to have seen such a show on

Meteorite58

Never seen anything like, the whole family out, visible to the naked eye, unbelievable colours.

StrawbsM

first time ever witnessing this.

Uncle Pierre

Near Gorey, Co. Wexford

Purple Mountain

Why is it east to west?

john mayo 10

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Mayo right now

NIMAN

I went out locally about a month ago, when there were loads of FB posts about how they were fantastic locally.

Took kids to the local beach, next to zero light pollution. Place was filled with dozens of folk with their cameras.

I asked a guy there, who seemed to know what he was doing, showed me some lovely photos he took, but he said you can't see them with your naked eye really.

noplacehere

kilcock north Kildare. Not as good as some here but enough to get the kids up to see and the best I’ve ever seen!

J6P

Kerry..

M.T. Cranium

I believe it's east-west oriented because it's such a large departure from usual peak auroral latitudes (65-75N) where it takes on that appearance, so you're seeing what is a normal high-latitude display.

blueser

Mayo/Ros border

teddybones

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In east Mayo! Ridiculously screamy.

Astro1996

THIS IS INSANE!!! OMG

Hippodrome Song Owl

A lot of light pollution here in Dublin. But clearly visible with the naked eye. Amazing.

Mickeroo

Castlebar

Calibos

Yeah, well that was…….&@*#ing EPIC!!!

My first Aurora ever at 50yo and it was a Doozy!!

Walked down to Bray beach at about 10:40pm and sat on the stones with our back to the prom and lights. If we didnt know what we were looking at you’d think it was just a fog bank dimly lit by the moonlight.

After 15 minutes of staring at it and our eyes getting dark adapted we started to see vertical striations come and go.

Was kind of thinking to ourselves, look, glad we came down, glad those photons hit our eyeballs but really its a bit underwhelming compared to the photo’s you see.

…and then at about 11.05pm we started to see some pink coming in and wondered were we imagining things….and then it rapidly intensified and ……HOLY F**K!! incredible sight. Greens and pinks and reds NAKED EYE! Realised the Locus of all the striations seemed to be at zenith and then realised there was a major band from the zenith stretching to the western horizon too!

I’ll admit we were almost ready to call it a night at 11pm, already happy to say we’d finally seen a real Aurora (but a bit underwhelmed but expected to be anyway) Thank &@#k we hung on another 5 minutes because the thing just went wild!

A…Mazing!! heading to bed now giddy! LOL.

TheMilkyPirate

We could see them with the naked eye could make out the purple fairly well not so much the green but doesn't look anything like the photos I took in real life. Still amazing to see

lolie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122122580#Comment_122122580

Even Stevie Wonder could see them tonight 😃, get out to the darkest place you can, nothing short of spectacular.

They eased of a bit but brightening up again, never thought I'd be facing south looking at aurora in ireland.

noplacehere

Is there more to come? Working on getting the kids back to sleep currently 😂

nuttyboy79

Dublin 15

g0g

Bray. Back garden. Delighted.

lisabiscuit

Galway about half an hour ago 😍

pauldry

Looking out the bedroom window at 1130pm with streetlights on and dodgy Samsung. Went to rosses pt n that was the most amazing moment of my life by far n im 50! Wow. I

Standard Toaster

Incredible sight. Amazing to see with naked eye

sq_forever

Fermanagh

bloopy

Absolutely incredible.

SweetCaliber

Tramore, Co. Waterford

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122122740#Comment_122122740

Also, looks like you got a Pyramid in there too ! 👍