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06-08-2010, 01:04 PM
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| | | Re: Northern Lights
seen at keilder forest as low green light near horizon looking north, night before last. |
06-08-2010, 02:15 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bolton
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I saw nothing last night despite getting as high as Locherbie, then bailing out.
Am driving up to Pitlochrie tonight as it is suppoed to be clear there tomorrow night.
Anybody fancies meeting I will be on 07970 599556
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06-08-2010, 06:35 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Snowdonia, N. Wales
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Originally Posted by Jim Ford  Non-event in this neck of the woods!
Jim | Jim. You never know.
As a boy I lived in Mill Hill, North London, My father was an amateur astronomist and member of the Hendon Observatory. One night in about 1949/50 he excitedly woke me from my bed and called me to the window which looked north.
I can remember seeing a green glow, he told me it was the aurora borealis. Worth pointing out that there wasn't much in the way of electric street lighting then, mainly still gas.
Dorts. |
06-08-2010, 06:57 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kensworth, Bedfordshire (W/ends) and Huntingdon
Posts: 4,335
| | | Re: Northern Lights
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Originally Posted by Boddie I saw nothing last night despite getting as high as Locherbie, then bailing out.
Am driving up to Pitlochrie tonight as it is suppoed to be clear there tomorrow night.
Anybody fancies meeting I will be on 07970 599556 | Good luck, Boddie, I hope you get to see them.
I saw them once about 30 years ago when I was working in Sweden - an amazing spectacle, one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. |
06-08-2010, 08:50 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Lancashire
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| | | Re: Northern Lights
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Originally Posted by Boddie I saw nothing last night despite getting as high as Locherbie, then bailing out.
Am driving up to Pitlochrie tonight as it is suppoed to be clear there tomorrow night.
Anybody fancies meeting I will be on 07970 599556 | Your dedication is to be applauded. The furthest north I got was the top of the street, and I still saw nowt. 
Regards, Chris |
13-08-2010, 08:03 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: London
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| | | Re: Northern Lights
I too feel compelled to applaud Boddie's enthusiasm.
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13-08-2010, 08:32 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Watford, Hertfordshire.
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Originally Posted by ChrisJB The furthest north I got was the top of the street | Gosh, I'd like to travel one day!
Jim |
13-08-2010, 10:34 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Creepy Crawley
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| | | Re: Northern Lights
Was too cloudy here (if there was any prospect of seeing it anyway!)
Pretty much the same for seeing the perseids (Bloomin clouds, keep thwarting all these fab celestial events! Having said that, I did have a good sighting of the perseids a couple of years back, up on the Ashdown Forest  )
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13-08-2010, 10:42 AM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bolton
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| | | Re: Northern Lights
As it happens we saw nothing. We camped both nights in a park in Pitlochrie and got absolutely no hassle either night.
On the Saturday we went to Bruar Falls, then off to a distillery. In the afternoon we travelled north to a highland games then on to Grantown on Spey to see what the fly fishing was like.
All in all I think we covered about 900 miles. A very enjoyable weekend which I only decided upon at about 2p.m. on the Friday afternoon
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13-08-2010, 04:30 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Northants.
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Originally Posted by Boddie As it happens we saw nothing. We camped both nights in a park in Pitlochrie and got absolutely no hassle either night.
On the Saturday we went to Bruar Falls, then off to a distillery. In the afternoon we travelled north to a highland games then on to Grantown on Spey to see what the fly fishing was like.
All in all I think we covered about 900 miles. A very enjoyable weekend which I only decided upon at about 2p.m. on the Friday afternoon | At least you enjoyed yourselfs...and got a distillery in as well cant be bad..  | | | |
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