{"id":798543,"date":"2026-10-10T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798543\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:58:08","slug":"northern-lights-aurora-stun-uk-down-to-englands-south-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798543\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights: Aurora stun UK down to England&#8217;s south coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you missed out this time, the aurora may return on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office has said sightings remain possible across Scotland and similar geomagnetic longitudes during clear skies until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To see them, you need to look northwards, away from bright streetlights, and look through a mobile phone camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reason you need to use a camera is because in low-light conditions at night our eyes use rod cells to see &#8211; these cells do not perceive colour and so we actually see in black and white. Cameras do not have the same limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you missed out this time, the aurora may return on Sunday. The Met Office has said sightings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}