Northern lights were seen in Brittany last night [En images]

Fans of colored skies had noted it in their diary. The Northern Lights were expected this weekend, and enthusiasts (after a little waiting) were sometimes able to contemplate them during the night from Sunday to Monday in France! This was the case in North Brittany, for example: the Brest astrophotographer Alexandre Croisier

thus managed to capture these red columns around 2 a.m. – during peak activity – near the Pontusval lighthouse, in Plounéour-Brignogan-Plages (29).

Shortly after an impressive solar flare

It was not as bright as last spring, when the Breton sky, like that of northern France, was adorned with a sublime pink. But the spectacle at the beginning of October was well and truly worth a look. Which others elsewhere have also admired, whether in Roscoff (29), in Porspoder, but also in Calvados, the Somme, and elsewhere in the rest of France, when the sky (clear, this is the condition main) lent itself to it…