We also stayed up to look ( Eurovision conveniently finishing late) but saw nothing.
Don’t feel so bad now then, I gave Shanna a walk on the lead at around midnight and didn’t see a thing. Mind you we do have a high stand of trees crowding us to the north, and I had several lights on to make sure I didn’t trip over this large, totally black, dog.
They obviously ignore me anyway, in the '50s I was north of the Arctic Circle and the result was the same.
No luck here in 33 either. We even jumped in the car around midnight and drove to the coast to have an unobstructed view with no light pollution. Tant pis.
We did that too, but as the moon was still setting it was still too bright to see anything other than stars. Gave up after 45 min and went to bed.
too tired to check the news yesterday… so I missed this Report…
Great stuff, but I love the comment with the last photo by Jean-Phillippe Bellon, who says:
“L’intelligence artificielle est encore très loin d’être au niveau.”
Artificial Intelligence has a long way to go, before it can match this…
I missed the first one, so tried last night, and the sky was reasonably clear, but nothing, not even a slight tinge of that vivid magenta. I’m wondering for anyone who saw it, was that colour really as saturated as all those photographs show, or is it slightly exaggerated by longer shutter times or camera/phone settings?
I did read somewhere that cameras/phones are more sensitive than the Mk 1 eyeball , but would much rather see it for myself that on a photo I’d taken.
The Jura was one of the good areas, and spectacular local photos. We saw it on Sat around 22.20h, photo on weather thread, but not yesterday although webcams from slightly further over showed quite a bit of activity, We just got pinkness.
Possibly filters used as well? Our photo members will probably know.
No. Just night mode and slow shutter speed.
possibility of seeing the magical skies… Sunday night…
and updated (I think) here, too…
https://www.spaceweather.gov/
There was a green tinge to the sky last night around 10:30 I didn’t think to take a photo. Jim wasn’t convinced the green light wasn’t ‘the last of the daylight’ !
We’re about 30km east of Perigueux.
This reminds me of the first night I spent in Jerusalem. A couple of us went out to find a cash point and saw a bonfire up ahead. As we got closer it turned out not to be a party, but a burning car with a crowd round it.
Just to balance a muslim story;
We were staying in Dahab, needed a bank machine but our taxi driver took us for a journey of around 35-40 minutes across the desert. We arived at the bank to view a 1 mtr square hole in the end wall of the bank, someone had stolen the machine in the middle of the bloody Sinai dessert
Pudding thieves? They’re the worst… The police hope to be able to take them into custardy, of course.
My typing is getting worse, still if it gives a laugh.
Do not be afraid, this is the natural cycle of the earth and the surrounding planets… enjoy the moment not the fear. Strength to you…
They’re unusual but completely natural and all down to a huge sunspot, matching the ‘Carrington Effect’ sunspot in the 19th Century (though with much less damage to telecommunications devices). Look at the web site www/spaceweather. com. I’ve been following it for a long time. It’s fascinating, if you like that sort of thing!
thick cloud cover all night around us… so we have to make-do with all the glorious photos which abound…