Spectacular display of Northern Lights over Glasgow – see the pictures

SCOTS in Glasgow were treated to a spectacular display of the Northern Lights on Thursday. 

We previously told how the Met Office revealed there was a "decent chance" of seeing the lights overnight on Thursday into the early hours of Friday morning.

The weather service said sightings of the lights, also known as aurora borealis, were likely in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and possible in the north of England and the Midlands.

Here are several incredible pictures of the Northern Lights over Glasgow captured by Glasgow Times reader David Pomphrey: 

(Image: David Pomphrey) (Image: David Pomphrey)(Image: David Pomphrey)

(Image: David Pomphrey) (Image: David Pomphrey) Sharing the stunning images, Pomphrey revealed he captured them on an Olympus OM-1 mirrorless camera with a wide-angle lens.

The pictures show the lights lighting up Glasgow's sky in different colours including pink and green.

Pomphrey snapped up the photographs while in the city centre.

It comes as there have been “more space weather events in recent months”, including the Northern Lights because the sun was nearing the peak of its solar cycle.

The Northern Lights are caused by charged particles from the sun hitting gases in the Earth's atmosphere.

The colours occur due to different gases in the Earth's atmosphere being energised by the charged particles.

Nitrogen and oxygen are the two most common gases in the atmosphere, with nitrogen emitting purple, blue and pink colours and oxygen emitting green.