Glaswegians were treated to a spectacular display of the Northern Lights last night. 

The Met Office revealed there was a 'decent chance' of seeing the incredible lights on Thursday, October 10.

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 that one of our readers, David Pomphrey, captured: 

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

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(Image: David Pomphrey) (Image: David Pomphrey) Sharing the stunning images with the Glasgow Times, David 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.

David 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.