Anyone staying up to try and glimpse the Aurora Borealis?

[Tonkerbea]

I'm South East, but it's on my bucket list to see it in real life 🤞🏽.

Lee-on-the-Solent, Portsmouth

Thank you! I'd like shots like everyone else is getting, without the fuzziness.

South east

Thank you thank you thank you everyone on this thread! Phenomenal sight. Overjoyed in our house tonight

No! Can just see a whitish sky but when I take a photo it shows up but i feel that’s cheating.

West Sussex here, and my daughter and I have been blown away by it! You can easily see the striations in the sky with the naked eye after a while but with the camera it’s something else! Ten second exposure on night mode with an iPhone. Facing north west. I’m wide awake now and I’ve got a mirror being delivered from 7am…😂

Thank you so much for this thread - I was having a shit night - cried my eyes out as I'm missing my nana who passed away a lot recently.

I'm still sad, but I'm literally going to bed ticking something off the bucket list. Wouldn't have known if it wasn't for this thread ❤️

I have been watching it and it was beautiful 😍

Northern Ireland tonight

@SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter on a Samsung you'll get the best shots in pro mode, not night mode. In pro mode, try setting the speed to 8 and ISO to 1600. If that's no good, tweak those numbers till you get it right.

I've never been more grateful for a Mumsnet thread. Just spent the last hour in the garden messaging everyone I know to get out of bed!

Just went out for a walk as everyone locally is seeing really vibrant colours according to many WhatsApps. Could see nothing at all except stars and grey stripes in the sky. Saw a dude take a photo and it was colourful photo but black in real life. So his phone saw them at least, not convinced he did! Unless my eyes are tragically broken.

Yorkshire 😍

I’m so fuming with jealousy 😭 why can’t I see them 😭

I took a great photo but it’s barely visible to the naked eye. Just looks like a pale shadow in the sky. Bit disappointing really. Everyone is raving about it but there’s very little to see. Enhancing it with a phone feels like cheating?

No could only see grey line with naked eye, you have to look through phone camera to see it.

Hertfordshire

Incredible

No it's not cheating, it's literally there and the phones exposure is picking it up. It would be impossible to see with naked eye this far down with all the light pollution etc.

Ah ok. The striations are right outside our front door. I can’t work out night mode to save my life.

The whole sky was pink here, you didn't need a camera. DH was watching it out of our bedroom window and I was standing on our patio looking straight up.

Been out but it got brighter when we got home so have been standing in the garden for ages and now have a crick in my neck.
My phone camera can't cope with the low light but DCs phone does.
Despite light pollution, a static shot got the colours I could just about see with the naked eye.

We're in the South East.

I'm waiting for the street lights to go out and then I'm going to take another look.

Another from kent

Just to show the difference between normal phone mode (quite similar to naked eye) and night mode for me...

I might set an alarm for a few hours time and hope the street lights go off. Does it hang around all night do we know?