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Aurora lights up the night sky over Scotland

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Displays of the Aurora Borealis were visible from parts of Scotland overnight.

Also known as the Northern Lights, the aurora appear as shimmering waves of light when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun.

BBC Weather Watchers and BBC Scotland News website readers photographed the "lights" from the Highlands and Moray. The displays were also powerful enough to be spotted further south than usual, including from North Berwick in East Lothian.

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A beautiful display of the aurora from Lossiemouth in Moray
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The "lights" were visible from North Berwick in East Lothian
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The aurora lights up the night sky in a picture taken from Elgin in Moray
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The aurora's glow from Lossiemouth
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Hopeman on the Moray Firth coast was another vantage point for observing the Northern Lights
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The view from Munlochy on the Black Isle in the Highlands

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