Shetland moonlit aurora

Auroras are good at anytime but i prefer a bit of moonlight to light up the foreground, and you can use a lower ISO so less noise 

these were taken down at Sandsayre under a strong aurora

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Sar with big Aurora -Shetland

Great to finally see a SAR arc (Stable Auroral  Red Arc. SAR arcs occur during geomagnetic storms when the inner edge of the ring current interacts with a contracted plasmasphere.. A portion of the ring current energy is dissipated as hear that gets conducted along geomagnetic field lines into the topside ionosphere.

You couldn't see the arc by eye only on camera and again most people didn't see it as it was south of the aurora similar to seeing STEVE.

With the snow the red really stood out with a colourful aurira