Weather conditions and solar winds aligned over the weekend to create perfect conditions to see the Northern Lights from Norfolk.
Columns of the aurora could be seen, when using a camera, dancing over the North Sea off the coast at Happisburgh.
“We had a glancing blow off a solar flare, basically – the sun sneezed and we were the handkerchief to catch it,” said aurora hunter James Rowley-Hill.
The Northern Lights are caused by the interaction of the solar wind – a stream of charged particles escaping the Sun – and our planet’s magnetic field and atmosphere.
