Pink Aurora Shetland

These are from late April at Sandsayre, Sandwick. Good to see the Mousa boat, it shows that the winds are going to be light

 

Great Aurora display at St Ninian's

Still catching up, this was last month down at St Ninan's, the Aurora was so strong it shone through the cloud

 

New Shetland book

NEW SHETLAND BOOK

This has just been published and contains a chapter and photos on the Shetland night Sky as well as everything that makes Shetland such an amazing place to live or visit.

Please email me at amazingshetland@gmail.com if you want to purchase a copy which is £25 (Collected) +postage.

 

Red Aurora Shetland

Coming up on the last few posts, some Aurora nights in Shetland over the past months.

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Sunspots

The sun is our nearest star at 93 million miles away and its amazing that you can photograph it at such a  distance. As we move to Solar Max the number of sunspots increase and it is these field that are highly magnetic that produce solar flares. These flares shoot out highly charged particles and if earth directed they hit out magnetic poles are pulled down and produce Auroras.

Sunspots can appear and disappear in a few hours but some survive and last a day, week , month or longer and continue to produce flares
 

More sunspots, the more active the sun is becoming. At solar minimum there are often no sunspots.

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