Shetland Meteor

 At 8.25am this morning many Shetlander were awoken by a large explosion which turned out to be a very bright meteor which was only seen by a few people. Some thought it was a bomb going off or an earthquake.

The above fireball was not from today but back in 2016 when i was just setting up to photograph the aurora down at St Ninian's. Today's was only caught on Shetland webcam, cliffcam 3.

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Shetland on Red Alert

 

Last night the alerts started coming in around 9.30 and quickly moved up to Red Alert

I headed down to Sandsayre and found no one else about

It was great to have a clear sky for once but it was very cold -3 at least with the wind chill, good job i got wrapped up

Although it was on Red Alert i found this to be weak and really on equivalent to a Yellow Alert

There was a shimmer and a bit of purple but i was expecting a bit more, may be its down to having very little activity over the past few days

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