We have had a good run of consecutive Aurora nights but not for Shetland as a whole. The north especially Yell and Unst had a few good nights then it was the turn of the south mainland.
Aurora alerts are good, they give you time to get out fast to see and photograph the Aurora. I always have a packed camera bag ready and make sure the batteries are fully charged.
On this night i came across one shetland Aurora Hunter who packed up after 5 mins after his camera died.
Anyway arriving down at St Ninian's it was very dark, the moon wasn't due to rise for a couple of hours. I prefer to have a 1/2 moon to light up the landscape and keep the ISO down so producing a good quality photo
Another blessing was no wind, very unusual for Shetland so little chance of vibration.
I was out at Amber alert and managed to catch the Red Alert Aurora which lasted about 2 mins, no chance of getting to a site if leaving it too late.
It was a pity about the cloud but you could see the purple colour above the powerful green arc, it even stretched across St Ninian's tombolo which is to the west proving it was indeed a powerful aurora.
News came out the Steve was showing but i could only just see it through the cloud which moved in, back home in Sandwick several photographers manage to capture some good photos.
It was only a month since the last sighting
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