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Title: Northern Lights sightings possible over Britain
Post by: admin on January 09, 2014

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According to scientists monitoring solar activity, a mass ejection of particles from the sun two days ago means that the light displays tonight could be of unusual intensity – and that they should be visible from much further south than normal.

Scientists from the Space Weather Prediction Centre in Boulder, Colorado, have predicted that the solar storm that is heading this way could mean that displays of the lights measured on what is called the KP Index could rise from a reading of one (visible in northern Scandinavia) to a reading of seven (visible in southern Wales and parts of southern England).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/10560789/Northern-Lights-sightings-possible-over-Britain.html

There's no reason Northern Ireland shouldn't see a few Northern Lights if you're far enough North and have dark skies.

Title: Re: Northern Lights sightings possible over Britain
Post by: Mourneman on January 09, 2014

Ed & Oisin will get some view tonight,they're camping on Commedagh.

Title: Re: Northern Lights sightings possible over Britain
Post by: LandyLiam on January 09, 2014

I popped up to the Ott car park to get a good view but there was a lot of low cloud over the mournes  :( had to improvise  ::)

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Title: Re: Northern Lights sightings possible over Britain
Post by: sjh1 on January 10, 2014

Quote from: LandyLiam on January 09, 2014

I popped up to the Ott car park to get a good view but there was a lot of low cloud over the mournes  :( had to improvise  ::)

(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/Mobile%20Uploads/P1040303bSmall_zpsb67e12f2.jpg)

Whatever you've done there is more impressive than that bit from the plane on Stargazing Live last night! Looked like a boring faint green mist, actually put me off going to look for it. To be fair Liz Bonnin is very easy on the eye though.