Aurora not as predicted

Everyone was predicting a big Aurora a few days ago and what happened, nothing

Nothing showing down at Sandsayre

Nothing but red lights from the wind turbines

We will have to get used to these red warning lights on turbines when the 103 larger Viking turbines are erected in the central mainland, they will be seen 25 miles away destroying any night sky

Milky Way at Tingwall

Slight bit of green at Tingwall

A bit more green this time down at Bigton

A bit more still over Bigton but this more like a KP2 rather than a KP6 that was forecast

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Cloudy Aurora

Its always good to see an Aurora and its always worth chancing it even though it may be mostly cloudy

 It was forecast to be a KP6 and the stats looked good for that but the cloud had rolled in. Shetland Aurora Hunter was receiving some reports that the Aurora had been seen behind the clouds to the north

That was the case when I arrived down at Bigton, I had already passed through fog on the way down but some gaps appeared as it travelled west

Stars appeared then disappeared but you could see the Aurora glow, I could see the green but the camera revealed purple above

It was certainly active and the glow began to spread further west.

The cloud again came in so that was it for the night

The Aurora appeared for three days on the trot, but only for those that got up just before 5am, even `Steve' made an appearance to a few people

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