Displays of Northern Lights across Scotland

4 November 2021

The Aurora Borealis - the Northern Lights - were seen overnight from large parts of Scotland. The natural lights display is connected to activity on the sun.

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Dawid Gierszewski's image of the Northern Lights which could be visible where skies were clear

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Monika Focht took this image at Pennan on the Aberdeenshire coast

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Keir Allen took this image from his garden in Abernethy in Perthshire. "It was quite an aurora," he said.

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The night sky in Kinloss, Moray, in a picture taken by BBC Weather Watcher Scamp191

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Phil Diamond took his shot from Lanarkshire

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A photograph of the Northern Lights taken at Nairn in the Highlands

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Ross Campbell's image was taken at Arnprior in Stirlingshire

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A powerful display seen from Belladrum in the Highlands in a picture by Freck Fraser

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Linda Cockburn said of her shot: "Just a normal Wednesday night in Lindifferon, Fife."

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Mike Alexander, of Galloway Astronomy Centre, said: "The aurora resulted from explosions on the sun a few days ago – they arrived a few hours earlier than expected. The image is looking north from Glasserton towards the Galloway Hills."

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Irwin McLean took his photograph from a bedroom window in Aultbea in the Highlands

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Danny Wilson's photograph from Langholm Moor - the last of the Aurora Borealis "dancing across the sky, meeting the Milky Way."

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