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11/10/2024 at 8:39am
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We've recently returned from a cruise to Iceland and even though it wasn't a Northern Lights specific trip we saw them for three consecutive nights.
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11/10/2024 at 9:41am
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I've still never seen it either, and I don't think I ever will at home. One of my granddaughters lives only about 6 miles from me and she put a picture of it on Facebook last night, but when I looked out - nothing! I think the problem here is light pollution. If I look towards the north from the back of my house I am looking over a town just a couple of miles away.
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11/10/2024 at 11:21am
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Think I'm in the 'snowflake in hell' group with no chance of seeing it from home! Apart from the mass of light pollution looking across London obscuring most sky objects/phenomena in general, looking North from my house I'm looking directly past two street lights and pretty much through the arch of Wembley stadium which was brightly illuminated Red and White 'cos of the football match yesterday! Then of course, there's a general 'fug' in the air thanks to the pollution from Heathrow that takes the sharpness out of any view! As a photographer, I know from experience that the light pollution 'glow' of London wrecks all night time photography of the sky, so even that isn't going to work for me!
Got friends in Essex, just north of London who took some impressive photos, thanks to their much darker skies, so the Aurora was no doubt there to be seen this far south, but not with London 'in the way'!
Bit miffed really, would really like to see, and photograph it, but resigned to that never being from home unless ALL the lights in London go out! I've also got to travel quite a distance to anywhere that isn't blighted by London's lights and fug, so can't just 'pop up the road a bit' for a better view!
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11/10/2024 at 1:34pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Monty15 on 11/10/2024
Got friends in Essex, just north of London who took some impressive photos, thanks to their much darker skies, so the Aurora was no doubt there to be seen this far south, but not with London 'in the way'!
One of our Granddaughters lives on the outskirts of Harlow, just over the border from us, and the pictures she took were quite amazing for this far south. Even though we live in a Hertfordshire village, there is no chance from here either. Lights from a nearby town are right in the way. The back of our house faces north but the sky is nearly impossible to see. The only thing we can usually see is the planes circling the village to line up with the runway at Stansted. They are about 3 minutes away from landing when coming in from this direction.
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