I hate to say this Mike, but in Durham (about 15 miles away from you?) we've had two fantastic nights of aurora - Wednesday night from 7pm to 8pm had aurora over the whole Northern half of the sky, while last night, despite the forecasts, the cloud suddenly cleared at 10pm to give an utterly amazing display for over an hour, and all in the Southern half of the sky! Many photos taken, but on the downside my Z-1 fatally malfunctioned while shooting. I'll get the films developed tomorrow. As you say, tonight has been relatively clear, but no signs of a repeat performance (check out http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/ for a good predictor for current likelihood of aurora).It's been cloud as anything here (NE England) for the last three days, so no joy. Looking good for tonight, so, for sure, there will be nothing.
mike
David
