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Didn't realise you weren't seeing it with the naked eye Robert. I do actually see it up here but it is not bright green or anything like it. Most of the time it is a greyish streak in the sky. On Hogmanay it was the brightest I've seen it and actually looked green but it was only a pale minty green. People hike up the saturation on their pics to ridiculous levels and unsuspecting onlookers think the aurora actually looks like that. It may be much greener to the naked eye when an exceptionally strong burst hits the earth or maybe it's much the greener the closer to the pole you get but I have only ever seen a pale streak. The camera exaggerates the green quite significantly. I try to edit my pics so they are reasonably realistic but to bring out the detail in the sea etc in the pic above for example, made the aurora a lot greener than it actually was.