An incredible display of colour was spotted in the skies above Berkshire this week.

The northern lights were seen above Berkshire on Monday night (February 27) for only the luckiest of star gazers, and photography enthusiasts from the county caught a brief glimpse of the colourful phenomenon.

It comes after the Met Office forecast the rare meteorological event on Sunday evening, with more colourful spectacles taking place on Monday.

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In some areas, the Aurora lit up the night sky around 10:30pm however for others they said that they witnessed a beautiful purple haze in the early evening hours.

Pippa McHale managed to capture the northern lights in all their splender with her S22 Ultra mobile phone. The Aurora lit up the Winkfield countryside at 8:30pm.

Camera Club member, David Turner said: “Near Winchester it showed up at 10:30pm apparently. Around here it started about 5:30pm with the most beautiful purple haze.”

 

Those who managed to catch the colourful lights in both Warfield, Winkfield and Winnersh explained a greenish shade blending with the night sky.

Paul Aplin, commented on the Twitter page Aurorawatch UK when he spotted a stunning pink hue above Reading. 

The aurora borealis was seen up and down the country, from the north of Scotland to Cornwall.

It is a rare phenomenon, typically only seen at the poles, where charged particles from the sun collide with gas particles in the earth’s atmosphere, which then interact with the magnetic field from the planet.

A spokesman for the Met Office confirmed the sightings on social media. They said: “A coronal hole high-speed stream arrived this evening, combined with a rather fast coronal mass ejection, leading to Aurora sightings across the UK.”