h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There was a spike in the aurora watch chart but it's gone flat again . No point staying up I think.

I received an email alert from AuroraWatch last night but then sadly watched their graphs showing steadily reducing activity from that point onwards Total cloud cover though so I'd probably have not seen anything if we'd had more spectacular displays.

Ah well, here's to the next surge of sunspots, flares and aurorae

Oh well, not all is lost - those sunspots are bound to come back again in the next few weeks, and we also have a lunar eclipse tomorrow night. --->

Woodpigeon

Ooooh look! Something's eating the moon! I shall be setting my alarm for 1am to see the total...ah what the heck, I may as well just stay up - it's only an hour away!

I can't see the moon! It's either too cloudy or it's not the right part of the sky...

There's a live webcam here http://www3.mira.be/lunar-eclipse-031108/ ...but I can see it from Herts - light cloud here.

sky has cleared here a bit. About to go out to have look. Don't have any film for my camera this time but as lunar eclipses are relativly common, and ive got photos from before, i'm not too worried. Though every one is different i suppose..

Just going to enjoy looking at this one without the equipment!

YES!! there it is! Very impressive.

Going to take my compact out on a tripod. It's the only thing i have with film in it

It may look ok.....

Just watched it to almost totality - then it clouded over. It was a lovely colour...like this

I´ve just seen it!
Beautiful

Just clouded over now. Seemed quite bright this time. I want it blood red!!

Too much cloud cover here However I did see the very end of the eclipse at around 3.30am when there was just a small bite taken out. Shifting clouds meant even that soon disappeared.

I remembered just in time to see it. I dashed out in to the back yard about a minute or so before the totality finished.

I thought it was most impressive watching the moon slowly reappear in the night's sky.

Also it was rather convenient that I could watch it from my back yard. At one other eclipse a few years back a friend and I had to stand out in the road to get the best view and the inevitable happened. A couple of police offciers turned up to ask what two blokes with binoculars were doing lurking around a quiet residential street at nearly 2 in the morning

The was obscured by the oak tree on the green and then next door's house, when it wasn't hiding coyly behind a cloud! So I went to bed.

Well why on earth didn't you just saw the tree down and demolish the neighbour's house?
No initiative.

I have received a red alert from aurora watch and the graph is nerarly off the scale!

http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/

My gawd! What can we expect do you suppose? [preparing for crick in neck]

Nothing here, it's cloudy now

Why is it always cloudy when the auroras can be seen?

A physyics teacher at my school said she saw them in Wales the other day but I haven't seen them yet