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Is it worth sitting in the dark to see anything? I get a better view south as it’s just trees and very little street lighting where I am in SE London. If I give it half an hour am I likely to see it?

just been out, it's like a light shadow across the sky. pretty sure i've seen it. might get a camera and see if i can bring it out the colours a bit better.

I am flabbergasted - in Snowdonia and have just come in from the most amazing light show.

Confirmed NL South Coast Sussex

Much better through a camera than the naked eye

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Yeah, very faintly visible to the naked eye, even in light polluted SW15. iPhone 14 camera picks it up much better (you can see Castor and Pollox to the left of the tree, along with the moon). Note all the red lights on the cranes somewhere over towards NW London.

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Also just missed seeing the ISS (supposedly a 1 minute viewing window as it came over the horizon at 00:12) but it would have meant going outside as it wasn't visible from any window in the flat.

not having much luck with the camera, i've set it on its back with a timer delay of 10s. click the shutter ( retire 20 paces ) with a 30s exposure and f/8 - f/16 apeture but just getting black screen not even any stars. never had much luck with star / moon pictures to be honest. what am i doing wrong. nikon d7100 dslr camera with standard issue lens. ianap.

any tips ? it does seem to have dimmed here a bit on the last 30 mins or so

In London?

Have you tried aiming north slightly above the horizon? I’m pretty sure a 7s exposure on an iPhone managed to catch it, green faint fog of light above the main light contaminated horizon.

I’m just outside Glasgow and it’s the first time I’ve ever seen it. Absolutely incredible.

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Stopped down to far, try f4-f5

Just a sample pic of the back of my camera, 4 seconds exposure, slightly south of the zenith at 28mm.

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Wife took this last night. I was asleep. 😅

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Slightly visible to the naked eye in Croydon

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Beautiful pics, I'm hoping I can see some aurora australis myself tonight, but I think I'm probably too far north. Great displays further south last night, lots of rain moving up the coast tho'. It's quite cloudy here too.

Was so surprised to see this from Bournemouth last night. Seemed brightest at 11.30 - midnight, which could be seen with the naked eye as lighter stripes and diffused colour. It was pretty apparent using an iPhone camera though. Headed out to a spot on the coast, but the light pollution washed everything out a bit. Still something I’ve never experienced before and got a real buzz!

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Couldn’t see it with the naked eye but took a few pics with my phone and a bit of tweaking contrast/saturation and it showed up.
This is facing east as we don’t have a north facing view and I can’t turn the lights off in the north facing common stairwell

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That's pretty cool. I guess it places you somewhere between Church Road, Central Hill and Beulah Hill - not prying, just wondering where to place myself if I go for a look tonight. I was thinking that the terrace of CP park might suffer less from light pollution.

I was amazed that I could see it with the naked eye quite clearly, obviously it pops a lot more with the iPhone long exposure shots I took.
I really wish I’d got my proper dslr out on a tripod but I was sound asleep until my wife very excitedly woke me up to see it.

I’m 38 and this is the very first time I’ve seen it. Tbf I lived in Glasgow my whole life until we moved a bit further out into the sticks 6 years ago. I’d always thought I’d need to go up closer into the Highlands to see it properly.

Has anyone else seen it before from relatively suburban locations??

No, the other side on Farquhar road, that’s not the Croydon end transmitter.
We are high up just facing the wrong way.
Maybe in the park off Anerley hill looking north so the transmitter is also in view but pointing the right way and central london light is hidden behind the hill might be a good spot.

Got given this for free. Instructions are in French.

Is it any good? What should I do with it first?

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Surely this needs to come off

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Maybe not

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I've just discovered how a telescope works 😀

It's the other end