Big Aurora today

Cheers guys! Wow what a show also got a meteor in one

Conor, at what time waere they taken, was it really as bright as in the images, I had a look but didnt see anything, albeit, I have a bad northern horison here.

Hi Conor, very good images and Thanks to Martin for giving me a ring, that really was worth seeing.

Johnmc9929.

Yea really it's hard to explain in words! It was the brightest since 2003! And the beams moved about 10deg per sec, thats unbelieveable!! Neither of us has ever seen the Aurora bands move to fast. And yea it was really that bright. it measured about 140deg long and reached North star. Heres a few images from now. 1:00am still aurora here but faint
I cant mine the time around 8pm
Thanks for the comment John

Wow they are impressive shots. I'm raging though, I was out at a dark country site tonight, and didn't see anything! Saw about a grand total of four meteors too, when I would see more than that from my own light polluted town location!

I saw the aurora last night (31 October) with those two bands at 19.19 hours shoot up to 55 degrees above the horizon.

From start to finish the two bands moved within a duration of 12 secs. The band to the west was less bright and less of a width than the other one, which had approximate width that varied from 1 one 2 degrees as it shot up. Both bands shot up from about 10 degrees to 55 degrees above the horizon.

I have never seen bands before that had such fast movement in relation to the other parts of the aurora. My latitude is 53 degrees 55 minutes N, 8 degrees 24 minutes W.

Eamonn A