Aurora Exhibition- Shetland goes to Hong Kong

 It was good to have a photo accepted into the `Exhibition for Arts of the Aurora' in Hong Kong last weekend. It was organised by the Aurora Association

Its the one to the botton right, taken down at St Ninian's isle in Shetland a few years ago.

Hundreds of people saw the exhibition and was well publised 

At our end, it was covered by the Shetland Times and it was good to talk about how Shetland Aurora Hunter (Facebook ) has grown to 5600 members

Good Aurora in Shetland

It was good to get out on Saturday night as a strong Aurora showed over Shetland

It started to pick up around 22.30hrs and i went local down to Sandsayre

As it doesn't really start to get dark until just after midnight, and with the moon at 20% it was good to see a strong Aurora to beat the twilight and moonshine

Glendale hadn't registered any alerts and as we have seen many times in Shetland you sometimes just have to get out and look, especially as it was a clear sky for once

It was a bit windy but no too bad to take photos

The activity really picked up about 11.05pm, with the Aurora visible to eye and you could also see the rays . Nothing still on Glendale

The main activity lasted about 15 mins before fading back to a green arc

 Most of the activity has taken place in the morning, especially about 9am on a few occasions and up to Purple alert.

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Aurora incoming - but where

This week has been very disappointing firstly because of the amount of cloud and rain that has blocked out the Aurora

I managed to get out on Sunday with the weather forecast indicating part clear skies, i only got a glimmer of the Aurora in a slim band over Bigton.

The other problem has been that the large surges have occurred during the day, even a purple alert but no good for watchers as its too light.

Nights are drawing out and its getting later when its dark but March has always been a good month to see the Mirrie dancers but the moon is also getting bigger so creating more light pollution

So the ideal night would be

> very active Aurora

> clear skies

> no wind

> new Moon

> reasonable time of night

> time to go out an experience the aurora

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