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The Daily PollTHE AURORA BOREALIS, also known as the Northern Lights, made a rare appearance in Irish skies last night.
People across the island took to X to share their shots of the spectacular natural phenomenon, with sightings in Northern Ireland and as far south as Cork.
The Northern Lights are a light display usually seen in high-latitude regions, and Ireland gets to catch a glimpse a few times each year when skies are clear.
Did you get to see the Northern Lights last night?
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Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localised entirely within your kitchen?
@Kevin Collins: you’re a strange man Collins, but you certainly steam a good ham.
I remember my dad telling me that when he growing up it was common enough to see them but all the light pollution has made it nearly impossible to see…..and that was 30 years ago. Must be next to impossible these days.
Saw nor heard nothing after lights out last nite.woke around 5am by the quare one snoring-gave her a nudge and back to sleep until woken abrubtly by alarm clock at 7-30 for work.
@Willie Marty: Great story, they should make that into a movie.
The only flag that should be over city hall is the Irish tricolour, not that disgusting Hamas flag
@Reece Dooley: Fruitcake.
@Reece Dooley: I thought you were talking about the green & red colors in the aurora forming a familiar flag!
A white flag should be placed on top of city hall for peace
Id iot leadership making anti Israel comments abroad, proposing to fly a pal flag , won’t be long until all these big corporations start leaving, meanwhile flooding the country with unvetted migrants. Unbelievable.
@BRENDAN O’CONNELL: melt.
The government of Ireland is flying Palestinian terrorists flag in our city hall? Ireland should be neutral. It should only be my flag, our flag our tricolour flag. The Palestinian terrorists must be over the moon that their actions killing civilians child elderly dismembering them has commendation by Irish politicians. This is what Iran and their allies want to divide Europe. This is what Putin wants to distract USA from their support to Ukraine. It looks like we are aligning with Iran and their proxies to dismantle Israel.
Amazing display in Skerries last nite
@Hugh Lynch: at what time? I drove up around 8 but didn’t see much. Must have missed it!
@Jen McC: I was there from 945 to 1015… But had been seen earlier
It was barely visible to the naked eye, but with a reasonable exposure on my camera it looked incredible. It not often the clouds play ball for these night shows, so it was a nice surprise. Saw a few shooting stars too.
Not sure a piece of fabric fluttering in the breeze on a dublin roof is going to stop the carnage inflicted by both sides in Palestine and Israel.
When I lived in Northern Minnesota it was a regular occurrence in late summers through the autumn and beautiful to watch in areas with little or no light pollution. Didn’t know they were visible last night though even though the skies were mostly clear it would be hard to see them from central Dublin.
The sky was black as the ace of spades as usual
Where’s the “Not sure/I don’t know”option?
No
Our daughter and husband seen them in balbriggan the photos were amazing
Obama are the Palestinian/Israeli kids hands not clean
Any contributor here can interpret the likelihood of witnessing the Northern lights by checking in on a satellite focusing on the Sun at the centre of the solar system and all planetary motions. The satellite tracks along with the Earth, so we see the stars change from left to right of the Sun as a demonstration that the Earth moves.
sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/
Mars is moving from right to left; however, as it moves slower than the Earth, the planet appears to move from left to right because the Earth moves faster.
It is new because the satellite is only recent; all those contributors who imagine it is well-understood because it is easy to understand are mistaken. It is unique, so enjoy it that way.
No chance in Dublin, loads of cloud cover. I only saw great shots of it on Twitter from around the country.
there is no way to forecast them? i’d love to see them but hard to predict
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