Aurora Watch this Weekend

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

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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

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

teddybones

Me gaff! Relief! Like a weight lifted off my shoulders. The pressure to see them! Haha

Meteorite58

Had to come in and charge the battery on the DSLR !

Epic night, these are a few of the better ones off the card so far.

pauldry

Rosses pt was kinda like this but even though Iphones show everything they still aren't what you see with naked eye which was a lot more bright than this crap photo for people who haven't seen it. However it's out there now. Just go to a dark field n look up.

teddybones

last one

Rikand

Its at times like this, I wish I had a decent camera. Amazing to see and my kids loved them. Rang my mother to go out and look too. She was amazed. I won't post my dodgy phone camera shots, they pale in comparison to some people's on here 😅😅

bloopy

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South Kilkenny

odonopenmic

Ballyfoyle, Kilkenny

Tauriel

Awful hazy weather in South Cork, not visible to the naked eye but managed to get one or two dodgy pictures of it on my phone by randomly shooting.

3mom4

Any chance of some more soon, missed the earlier show!

titan18

Nothing in Cork City