As a child of the fifties have dim memory of northern lights on the south coast of Wales. Very little background light in those days.

Thanks for the photo Gordon

Spaceweather.

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: NOAA forecasters say that a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm is possible on March 6th when a high-speed stream of solar wind reaches Earth. The gaseous material is flowing from an equatorial hole in the sun's atmosphere.

Spaceweather.

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: A solar wind stream is coming, and it could spark a G1-class geomagnetic storm when it arrives on March 5-6. The gaseous material is flowing ~550 km/s from an equatorial hole in the sun's atmosphere. If NOAA forecasts are correct, the timing of the storm could favor nighttime aurora watchers in Canada and Alaska.

Spaceweather.

SOLAR WIND UPDATE: Earth is exiting a solar wind stream that sparked bright high-latitude auroras during the first week of March. Another stream is on the way. Flowing from a Southern hole in the sun's atmosphere, the gaseous material is expected to reach Earth on March 13th.

NEW SUNSPOT CRACKLING WITH FLARES: A New sunspot emerging over the sun's northeastern limb produced a C1-class solar flare yesterday March 9th.

A pulse of radiation from the flare briefly ionized the top of Earth's atmosphere, causing a low-frequency radio brownout over the Atlantic Ocean. Mariners and ham radio operators might have noticed unusual propagation below 10 MHz around 1235 UTC?

C-flares are relatively minor events. The potential of this sunspot for more intense flares is unknown. We'll find out more as it rotates into better view later!

Spaceweather.

CO-ROTATING INTERACTION REGION: NOAA forecasters say that a CIR (co-rotating interaction region) could hit Earth's magnetic field on March 13th. CIRs are transition zones between slow- and fast-moving solar wind streams. Solar wind plasma piles up in these regions, producing shock-like structures that sometimes mimick CMEs and spark bright Arctic auroras.

Another great picture from Ivan. Interesting gutter arrangement on the house as well.

Cracking photo Gordon. Ivan is a lucky chap!

Wonderful shot...

A very engaging image indeed, considering the requirement to balance all the variety of light in the scene, pity the gutter sculpture grabs the eye as it does given all the other wonderful detail captured.

I didn't really spot the gutter until it was mentioned. The phone box, however Good to see one!