Pictures of the Northern Lights seen over Bolton last night

From Doffcocker to Belmont, plenty of snaps were captured of the solar phenomenon.

Belmont Reservoir

Lee Jevy took this water-side snap of the lights appearing over the brows of the Pennines.

Lee Jevy's snap (Image: Lee Jevy)  Farnworth

Away from the water on the more urban side of the borough, Jools Higham, saw them glistening over Farnworth.

Jool's picture taken in Farnworth (Image: Jools Higham) Doffcocker Lodge

Thomas Hill was out near Doffocker Lodge to grab another water-side snap of the lights.

Doffcocker Lodge (Credit: Thomas Hill)Over Hulton

Jay Derbyshire caught this one in Over Hulton at 10pm last night.

The Over Hulton picture (Credit: Jay Derbyshire)Breightmet

Lucy Herkova was up late till nearly 1am admiring the lights.

She caught this still of them.

The Northern Lights over her house in Breightmet (Image: Lucy Herkova)

Kearsley

Raymond Olive snapped these from his back garden in Kearsley

The lights over Kearsley (Image: Raymond Olive) The most impressive auroras occur when the Sun emits really large clouds of particles called "coronal mass ejections".

The Northern Lights have been seen all across the UK in 2024.

This is thanks to the biggest geomagnetic storm since 2003, according to Sean Elvidge, a professor in space environment at the University of Birmingham.

The 2024 storm has been so powerful that, as well as lighting up the night sky, it interfered with satellites and power grids around the world.

The Met Office’s latest space weather forecast says: "The chances of aurora remain initially, though gradually easing through October 11, becoming increasingly confined to far northern geomagnetic latitudes by October 13.’

On top of that, the atmospheric weather forecast says we’ll see "rain across Scotland and Northern Ireland becoming more widespread through the night, although far north clearer with the odd wintry shower" – which doesn’t sound promising for the required conditions.