Aurora 2024 May 10

The stunning night of aurora 2024 May 10
by members, family and friends of the Wells & Mendip Astronomers

In the previous week, a huge sunspot group had been rotating across the face of the Sun producing intense flares and coronal mass ejections. This created a so-called G5 level geomagnetic storm that produced intense aurora reaching down to southern England and beyond. In Wells the most intense period of auora activity began around 23:10 BST and lasted for an hour or so. Pillars of grey light were clearly visible to the naked eye with just a hint of green and red colours whilst under the darkest skies away from Wells some members reported sronger colour visibility. However the sensors in the latest phone cameras had no difficulty picking up the full beauty of nature's light show; most of the images below were captured on mobile phones without any additional image processing.

Contributors:
Ben Sutlieff
Catherine Allen
Chris Daniel
Chrissy Allen
Gary Sutlieff
Hugh Allen
James Bean
Josh Dury
Karen Sutlieff
Kevin Eades
Len Simpson
Matt Clark
Pip Toogood
Richard hook
Simon Toogood
Steve Berry

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Ben Sutlieff in Edinburgh