Northern Lights transform skies across the region

Lydia Wilson

BBC News

6 November 2023

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Landscape photographer Chad Powell fulfilled his "lifelong dream" of capturing the lights across Newtown National Nature Reserve on the Isle of Wight.
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The phenomenon gave a magenta hue to the sky above Knowlton Church in Cranborne, Dorset.
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Mary McIntyre snapped a photo of the lights passing over Tackley in Oxfordshire.
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Aurora Borealis is said to be much less common in the south of England compared to northern parts.
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Skies in Newbury were pictured to be a greenish-red colour.
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BBC Weather Watcher, Emily, spotted the lights in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, on Sunday night.
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The lights were also seen in Basingstoke in Hampshire.

The Northern Lights have been spotted lighting up the skies magenta, green and purple.

On Sunday, people across the south of England photographed sightings of the aurora borealis phenomenon.

Photographs were taken from various towns and villages including Cranborne, Tackley, Newbury and Basingstoke.

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