Northern Lights! Not many people know this . . .

thanks sheila ~ i will take a look, would love to see them in reality.

we have certainly had some lovely january skies but northern lights are just something else!!

here is the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16685364

The skies this winter have been amazing ...
and lucky those who've seen the Northern Lights too...

Good idea, Sheila, to write this blog. :o)

never seen them, maybe one day !
Just had a look at your link Sticki, those green lights are amazing.
(if only the dust particles were this pretty in my house eh? )

Thanks Sheila...I am very excited because I have never seen them and we are near St Andrews! :))

got a nice warm coat karen??

I'll have a look out for them tonight, because we have a clear sky. I've seen them a few times before but they are always a wonder.

Wonderful Sheila, I would love to see them.

Shall we all get on a train together, and go and see Karen, lol?!

They announced on the Scottish news tonight that there is a good chance of seeing them again tonight.

They have been seen at St Mary's Island which is close to where I live, I can't get to see them so I will make do with the lovely photo's on the local new's :-))

Thanks Terra . . . and everyone for joining in!

oh i was hoping someone had seen them?!!!

do they appear late in the evening or the morning or is it not known beforehand?

It's something I've always wanted to see , I remember Joanne Lumley being awe struck looking at them on one of her trips.... they looked magical ....
I will have a look Sticki ,Thanks ;o)

i liked that travel thing joanna lumley did thought she was really good.

I have been to have a look thanks Sticki , I wish I could have seen it .. yes J.L was very good wasn't she described everything so well ........

i thought so and was so appreciative.

When I was at university in St.Andrews I remember seeing the lights during the dusk walking down South Street (I had no idea we could see them in the UK). It was like the rainbow colours you see in oily water, slightly fuzzy rainbow, nice. I'll look out tonight and take a photo if I see (little light pollution where I live, which helps).

Nothing here tonight. :o(

what a shame Oji

maybe kildermorie will see it?

I saw them on our local news last night..they had a wonderful sighting on the top of Tan Hill,in the Dales..at one of the highest pubs in the country,. A few were waiting last night as well,in case it appeared again..What a great thing to see..

I looked on the BBC news website Sheila and then on the images, fantastic photos, what a sight that would be to see!

Sorry people, I went out but didn't see anything. I think perhaps we went out too early. :( oh well, maybe next time.....disappointed :(

...oh but :)))) I did see the Milky Way! :))))

:)))))))))))) I saw it on TV..lol

It's just something we shall never see down here :-((((, but we do get good shooting stars in summer. We are lucky to have very little light pollution out here in the wilderness.

Latest news - in the newspaper today it was said that tomorrow (Wednesday, 25th), Thursday and Friday could well be the best nights for a sighting . . . even as far south as London! So find yourselves a bit of high ground away from light pollution if poss, and fingers crossed. :))

Certainly last night was a fabulous clear, starry night when I was still awake at 1.00 am!

great, thanks sheila!

Wouldn't it be a treat if we actually saw them Sticki?! We'd never forget a sight like that . . .

so very true sheila, i would dearly love to see them ~ now that would be something to tell/show your granddaughter!!

Wouldn't it just?! :))

:-)

I heard the forecast tonight, so I rather doubt any of you saw anything - all that cloud and rain, too. Will there be other chances later on? Such a shame.

All I saw on Monday night was a fuzzy greenness to the north and it did not photograph. It was too cloudy yesterday :(. I think that you have to be further north and east and rural to see it clearly.

what sort of time should you look out for them?

I don't know for sure Sticki, but it seems to be just chance - any time that the sky is dark!

ok, thank you, going out this evening so will take camera too!!!
if i can find my way in the cloud!!!