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Most of Europe == Not covered by light polution. (and specific areas)

(it's orange outside and it's sodium vapor related)

edit: kind of whish I was at my parent's place. It's a lot less poluted but no go here; nw europe densly populated, we also have the artificial sunrise here 24/7 by means of greenhouses.

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> we also have the artificial sunrise here 24/7 by means of greenhouses.

That's a Dutch thing. You can choose between being a great exporter of unripe, tasteless tomatoes, or seeing Aurora Borealis, but you can't have both..

This is what I could see with my camera in the east of the Netherlands, and even with the naked eye I could easily see some red at times: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl

Very nice! Thank you for sharing!

> a great exporter of unripe, tasteless tomatoes

The small ones are okay-ish (cherry tomatoes) if that makes you happier

It’s just about visible (much more so through an iPhone camera) in central London right now

That's pretty incredible. Central London is so bright at night that very few stars are even visible usually.

Classic aurora move, I can almost hear the charged particles now...

"Und doch habe ich allein, allein auf mich gestellt, ganz Europa erobert!"

Sure you did charged particles, sure you did, but welcome to Europe's secret weapon: Light pollution!

> Sure you did charged particles

Well technically ... sodium vapor lamps are charged particles. But yea you are correct we're screwed.

I was in middle of nowhere Sweden last week but the number of daylight hours are so high that far north that even in the dead middle of the night the sky is still blue

I could see faint streaks from central Berlin. No doubt it’d look better from a deep darkness but even in the city it can be seen tonight.

Even in the light polluted London you can still see it, even if it's faint.

From the ground I cannot see it (I'm a bit north of london latitude wise so it should be better), and we have nicely combination of areas of greenhouses and petrochemical companies burning off here so it might be far worse than central london unfortunately. I'm not too high up but my view north is quite ok ... and unnatural orangeish and void of any pink.

Well, I was watching it in East London last night

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