vivdunstan

Very nippy out there, but there's been a very happy astronomer / space scientist out with camera! It was extremely faint for us earlier tonight, but then we got bright lights shooting up, and a marvellous range of red, green and other colours. Extremely visible with the naked eye. Which is always impressive to see, given we're on the edge of a city, and do have light pollution to contend with.

Pretty amazing aurora tonight, though we had to wait a long time up here in northern Scotland for it to get dark enough! We don’t usually see vertical streaks with the aurora, but that was quite something. And still is. Martin is still out seeing if he can take a good picture. Aurora viewing was accompanied by the sound of snuffling hedgehogs in our garden 😜 Meanwhile I am back in the warm.