I arrived at about 11:00pm, as I parked a large bank of cloud came over. I was not hopeful, but made my way towards Doxy's Pool, as I new it had a good perspective North and would give an interesting foreground to a photo.
On my walk up I met a number of photographers who were packing up, having seen no hint of a display and giving up because of the cloud. I did not want to have driven the 40 minuet journey for no reason and at least hoped for some lunar images or night shots of the crag.
Having set up and taken a few shots, there were gaps in the cloud developing and I turned my camera to the North, hoping to catch a glimpse of the aurora. After several hours of waiting I was in for a short but spectacular treat, this is one of the images I took.
I doubt I will be lucky enough to ever experience this again, but I am very grateful that I made the trip.

Interesting light/shadow effect, but doesn't look much like the Northern Lights. Which way is the camera pointing? Is that light from the departed sun on the right and city lighting on the left?

Hi,
It is moon light on the left, which rose east south east that evening. However was more like south south east by the time the photo was taken at 2:30am ish.
The camera is looking north north east towards Flash with Buxton well out of site Macclesfield is to the north west, but wasn't spilling out much light because of the cloud that had rolled through.
My only other explanation is that it was about a three minute exposure at F4 with a EF-S wide angle Kit lens, if that would cause the distortion.
Ether way it was good to see them, even if not captured perfectly.

Sorry, moon on image right, not left!

Ian, do you know approx what angle the field of view is?
I am usually good at spotting constellations but I'm a bit stuck here. Have you enlarged a smaller part of an original pic? Certainly an interesting phenomena.

Hi,
It was taken at 18mm on an APSC sensor so quite wide, I moved the sky a little lower in the photo, to improve the horizon, but not much.