Northern Lights to be visible over UK tonight - exact time and locations

The Northern Lights are acceptable to instrumentality contiguous (Image: Getty)

The Met Office has released a map showing wherever you tin expect to spot the Northern Lights contiguous arsenic they are acceptable to dazzle stargazers successful the UK.

On Tuesday, the Northern Lights illuminated the skies implicit Scotland, and experts from the Met Office foretell that contiguous astatine 8pm volition connection different large accidental for seeing them.

There volition beryllium a 90% accidental of seeing the lights successful the UK.

The Met Office said connected X (formerly Twitter): "Northern regions person further chances to spot the aurora implicit the adjacent fewer nights.

"Cloudy skies mean constricted viewing opportunities for astir of us, but with clearer skies successful bluish and occidental Scotland, there’s a overmuch amended accidental here."

The Met Office predicted the lights would beryllium disposable from 7pm and is expected to highest astatine astir 8pm.

The representation past shows that these volition slice distant from 11pm to 1am tonight.

Many stargazers saw past night's Northern Lights successful Scotland with the champion sightings captured successful the Shetland Islands and the north-west of Scotland which were caused by accrued star activity.

The Northern Lights, oregon Aurora Borealis, are usually disposable successful Iceland, Canada, Finland and Norway but this evening, this improvement could beryllium seen successful the UK contiguous and time night.

Compared to different years, 2024 saw a important summation successful Northern Lights being observed successful the UK.

The lights volition besides beryllium capable to beryllium seen time connected February 13.

We are presently experiencing the highest of the 11-year star cycle, which is characterised by heightened star enactment which leads to an summation successful enactment boosts and successful the likelihood of the Northern Lights being disposable successful the UK.

The champion places to spot the Northern lights is usually successful Scotland, North England, North Wales and Northern Ireland and your chances of seeing these volition beryllium accrued if the entity is wide of clouds and airy pollution.