WTF is that in the sky?!! (Noctilucent clouds over Brixton!)
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spring-peeper
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wow - they do look like northern lights don't they 
I thought I read somewhere that due to climate/atmosphere changes that the northern lights were to become more common over your country.
I thought I read somewhere that due to climate/atmosphere changes that the northern lights were to become more common over your country.
spring-peeper
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First time I saw the northern lights, I thought it was an alien attack. Wasn't as pretty as the ones in your pictures though. That looks awesome.
Can't see it from E2 
The couple of times I've seen Northern Lights (from Edinburgh and Inverness) they were more like the traditional curtains.
It is possibly the Sun - which is in the North-North-East at the minute - to light up some very, very, high cloud?
Or are there in fact flying saucers emerging from the cover of whatever-it-is?
The couple of times I've seen Northern Lights (from Edinburgh and Inverness) they were more like the traditional curtains.
It is possibly the Sun - which is in the North-North-East at the minute - to light up some very, very, high cloud?
Or are there in fact flying saucers emerging from the cover of whatever-it-is?
Johnny Canuck3
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From the pics, looks like horsetails.
Stobart Stopper
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You should sell that pic to the Evening Standard, I bet no one else has taken one like that. Think of the beer money, Ed!
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Stobart Stopper said:You should sell that pic to the Evening Standard, I bet no one else has taken one like that. Think of the beer money, Ed!
Not to the Evening Standard!
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
editor said:It's seriously weird, you know.
Thats a great pic by the way...
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
A mobile illegal rave, perhaps? 
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
kingmaker said:They can be seen as far south as the French riverra on very rare occasions. However that normally happens around a sunspot peak and (from my days as a SW radio anorak
Some form of lightning perhaps?
Also: if it were the Aurora Borealis, would it be moving?
Definitely looks like the northern lights - I saw them in Ramsgate a couple of years ago and obviously thought "it can't be that" as, well, it was Ramsgate. But apparently they have been seen as far south as Dover. Usually associated with cold clear nights though, rather than summery evenings.
Nice pic.
Nice pic.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Would be brilliant if they were the Northern Lights. There was a report earlier in the year that said London could see them.
However, looking at a Northern Lights website, it says on a scale of 1-10
"Based on satellite measurements, auroral activity on Earth right now is: 1/10"
However, looking at a Northern Lights website, it says on a scale of 1-10
"Based on satellite measurements, auroral activity on Earth right now is: 1/10"
miss minnie
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http://www.zenlan.com/images/misc/aurora_over_matanuska_glacier-animated.gifacid priest said:Also: if it were the Aurora Borealis, would it be moving?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
acid priest said:Also: if it were the Aurora Borealis, would it be moving?
Absolutely. Have you never seen them on tv?
"Aurora borealis are always moving because of the constant changing of interaction between the solar wind and the earth's magnetic field."
I knew that
Minnie_the_Minx said:Would be brilliant if they were the Northern Lights. There was a report earlier in the year that said London could see them.
However, looking at a Northern Lights website, it says on a scale of 1-10
"Based on satellite measurements, auroral activity on Earth right now is: 1/10"
Couple of reports here for Dorset and Warwickshire in the last month or so.
http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/cgi-bin/view_reports?mode=all
I still think it is unlikely though.
