Northern lights and the Perseid meteor shower in pictures

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Stargazers captured a display of shooting stars — as many as 100 an hour as the event reached its peak — set against the glow of the northern and southern lights

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/photography-uk/article/northern-lights-and-the-perseid-meteor-shower-in-pictures-vbmg9jb9n

https://archive.ph/a7TQh

Josh Dury, 26, captured the Perseid meteor shower at Stonehenge, Wiltshire, over the course of three and a half hours
SWNS

Castlerigg in Keswick, Cumbria, one of the earliest British stone circles, dating from about 3,000BC, was lit up in the early hours of the morning GREGG WOLSTENHOLME/BAV MEDIA

The lights cast a purple glow over Corfe Castle in Dorset LEWIS JOHNSTONE/BNPS

As many as 100 meteors an hour were visible above the Temple of Mithras on Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland JULIE SMITH/STORY PICTURE AGENCY

A tree is silhouetted against the glow of the lights near Dunsford on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon NIDPOR/ALAMY

The photographer Tim White used a five-second exposure to shoot the reflections in the River Axe at Seaton in Devon TIM WHITE/PICTUREEXCLUSIVE.COM

The lights turned the sky bright green and purple in Howick, Northumberland OWEN HUMPHREYS/PA

In New Zealand, the southern lights glowed above the horizon over the waters of Lake Ellesmere on the outskirts of Christchurch
SANKA VIDANAGAMA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

The western Ukrainian city of Lviv was bathed in pink light ARTUR ABRAMIV/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

A shooting star blazes across the sky above a flock of sheep near Hagermarsch in Lower Saxony, Germany MATTHIAS BALK/AVALON

The aurora australis was visible in southerly areas of Australia, illuminating the skies over Blind Bight near Melbourne CHRIS PUTNAM/ZUMA/EYEVINE

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[Fla Dem]

1. Incredibly beautiful and awesome!

[AllaN01Bear]

2. ohm myyy!!!

i remember seeing from yesterday on du a photo of the northern lights dancing above the golden gate bridge in sanfransico ca. too much light polution @ tick tock base .i heaar shortwave radio was usless and there were issues on the internet last weekend when the sun went burp