Aurora and full moon

The Moon has been nearly at full making aurora photography more challenging. I manage to get down when a weak aurora arrived just as the moon was hidden behind the cloud

The moon rising behind Sandlodge in Sandwick

The sun has become more active this last two weeks with 3 X-Class flares and many M- Class Flares but few CME's which bring the auroras

 A weak Aurora down at Leebitton under a full moon.

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Shetland Aurora- at last

Good to final photograph the aurora, it has been a long time

March is always a good month to see the aurora so i hope we will get more nights under the lights

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Some Aurora activity

 It seems a long time since we have had some good aurora action. We have had a few weak aurora since mid December last year.

Even the weather has been poor but the lack of CME's have been the main problem. There has been plenty of flares, including 3 X-Flares a few days ago and plenty of Sunspots but none sending out solar winds which sparks aurora

It was good to give RSPB Shetland a talk on the aurora and now i have started writing a column on the Night Sky for the Shetland Times. The one yesterday was on the Aurora. I am also delivering photography courses on the Night Sky and we are half way through the 6 week course.

There is a big interest in the aurora and Night sky but AI is starting to ruin the experience and fooling people. I saw one AI aurora post that had 5.5k likes with people saying it was amazing and they cannot wait to see it in person. AI posts have been banned from Shetland Aurora Hunter facebook group, hope more do it.