Northern Lights pictured from Rutland Water and Elsea Park in Bourne

Photographers had their eyes to the skies on bonfire night.

While many people were admiring the bright lights of firework displays, others spotted a more natural beauty on Sunday evening (November 5).

This photo by Jamie Hassall shows the Northern Lights above Normanton Church at Rutland Water.

Jamie, who owns Rutland Photography Workshops, has seen the light show many times while teaching in the UK and Finland, but is always keen to capture them at home. He said: “It was the Guy Fawkes of Auroras for sure.”

The light show, also known as the Aurora Borealis, is created when a stream of charged particles which are escaping the sun meet with our planet's magnetic field and atmosphere. They are most commonly seen in Iceland, Norway, Finland and Greenland.

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