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Currently a red alert. 

The Northern lights could be visible from anywhere in the UK right now. 

Too much thin cloud around here. Quite a nice bow around the almost full moon.

Could be... I'm sitting in the dark in a layby north on Inverness. Bright moon.....

Thanks for the post, could you now do something about the cloud please ☹️

Looks like Bz is going to head north again soon...that will sadly calm things down. My northern sky is cloudy, but there's a pretty impressive halo round the moon in the other direction.

Visible by iPhone 15 in country Durham at present - a green band from about 15 deg to 25 deg above the horizon with occasional transient vertical structures and a brief appearance of a red pillar.

In my 40s I can’t see a thing by eye.   Wintertree Jr walked out of the door into the light pollution and said “I see a green line” the bugger.

Some decent, if transient, displays on the northumberland coast (Bamburgh). Those "in the know" around here reckon it will get better later on if the cloud stays away. Not expected to be as good as a couple of weeks ago, when it was bloody spectacular up here.

Interesting, what factor in your and junior's eyesight makes the difference between seeing and not seeing?

Better visual acuity (do you need glasses or better prescription or would that still not be enough), or better colour differentiation?

And, does the critical factor inevitably occur with age (as in are we all stuffed to have a more difficult time seeing aurora) 😕

Moon and Jupiter have been spectacular for a day or two. Was looking for the ISS tonight (actually hoping to see the bag of tools they dropped last week!) ISS flew in between Moon and Jupiter (and 4 Jovian moons). Really was fantastic.

Having made a lifelong study of the aging process I can only conclude that it sucks.

I don’t know a serious answer to your question but it’s a good excuse to go reading.  A quick google produced figure 1 in this paper which suggests aging does indeed suck for vision - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38025561_Chromatic-Spatial_Vision_...

Looks like it's visual acuity and we're all stuffed ☹️

I have a memory of as a youngster (I'm guessing when I was a young teenager) having seen the Galilean moons with the naked eye, but after all this time I cannot remember any details so I do now wonder whether it's actually a false memory.

Edit: just read up on this a bit and naked eye sightings are reported quite a bit especially for youngsters so maybe it is a genuine memory.

Venus was very bright this morning too - clearly visible just after six when dawn was breaking.

You’re right. At my age visits to the loo at 4.30am are normal. Up side of which is great views of Venus. About the same brightness as Jupiter in the evening I would say. The ‘morning star’.

I’m heading out now, slightly tipsy, but armed with camera.    And I’ll blame you if I see nowt. 

I think you’ll  find it’s Uranus  

Nice moon and clouds,  but the late night bus to Anstruther was great !

I see what you did there. 😂In reply to Bottom Clinger:

Another red alert is currently in place - and a bit less cloud where I am. 

Thick Fog here, won’t be seeing anything.

Cloudy here, sadly

Clear skies here in north east england, but there’s massive sky glow to the north that would probably wash out a mild aurora.  I think it’s back-scattered moonlight from a very light fog, perhaps enhanced by reflections off the snow cover.  A very boosted photo has some red and green in it but noting great.