More Sun Activity

Merry Christmas to all

The sun for Christmas full of sunspot presents and it looks like this cycle will be a lot better than expected

What do lots of sunspots mean, well more Aurora activity. Now all we have to do is get rid of the cloud

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December Planet Conjunction

 The planet conjunction is always worth seeing and Shetland having wide vistas can be a good place to see it

Moon and Jupiter off to the right

Jupiter just right of the head

Moon looking good

Venus behind the cloud on bottom right

More Activity more Aurora

 These last few days the sun has been very active with a train of sunspots racing across the sun. The size equivalent to 22 earths side by side.

More activity on the sun means more Aurora activity and on Sunday night there was a major Aurora with many arcs. Pity it was total cloud and only one person reported seeing anything from the south Mainland. It went from an Amber alert to a Red alert in two mins with lots of colour visible to the naked eye. Only odd breaks in the sky

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But at this time in the month, the Moon was also at 99% full which means if the Aurora was visible it would have to be strong to beat the Moonlight, as it was yesterday.

As Solar Cycle will continue to grown and produce more sunspots we will get more major Auroras and hopefully clear skies to see them.

The Stars over Shetland

Mousa under the stars

Jupiter just behind Sandlodge

Jupiter and a few of its Moons

Orion looking good over Sandsayre

Milky Way over Leebitton, Sandwick

 Orion with Pleiades higher up

Early Aurora

 This nearly caught everyone out as it arrived just after 5pm. It started to develop after 6pm although just before a large green arc had formed

All these down at Sandsayre just a few mins away, you should always have a place less than 15 mins away. Things changed after 1/2 hour with thick cloud moving in

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