aurora – Graeme Skinner

As the song goes….

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 11 May 2024 09:55:46 +0000

….to light the night for our delight

We saw the alerts that there was quite a bit of solar activity which may give us a nice aurora display, popped outside and could see activity with the naked eye which is unusual, after a while we could start to see colour forming which is really unusual for us to see with naked eye. The best display we’ve seen to date.

Northern

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:24:41 +0000

Popped outside last night for a quick snap of the aurora borealis…

Quick snap

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:51:51 +0000

There was an alert last night that there was a good chance of aurora, sadly I was weary having had a busy shift at work that came after a poor nights sleep, so I ended up popping out with the camera and taking a quick snap.

I did have to take a photo of M45 (Pleiades) and Jupiter popping over the Pennines, with our neighbours stone circle in the foreground

Yay!

Graeme Skinner — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:04:59 +0000

I was half dozing last night, the fire was crackling and hissing as the logs slowly burned and I was pondering an early night. Then Julie pointed out there was an Aurora alert and quite a lot of talk on Twitter about it being a ‘good one’ so I wandered outside expecting to see cloud – which is normal whenever there’s an Aurora alert. For once however the sky was fairly clear and I tried a couple of snaps from the lane, it looked interesting enough to bundle a few bits in the car and take a quick trip down to Long Meg. I’ve always wanted to see Long Meg silhouetted against an Auroral display and as luck would have it I managed it, well, I managed a few photographs before remembering we’d be getting up in only a few hours.

Stars, Planets, and a bit of Aurora

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:01:40 +0000

I set off to work a few minutes early this morning so I could take a couple of photographs. I’d been reading reports of the aurora borealis when I woke and decided to try and spot some (I’d have stayed up to watch it during the night but I need my beauty sleep before a long day at work ;-)). The aurora wasn’t really visible to the naked eye when I got to the car park, though every now and then I caught a glimpse. Venus however looked really bright above the Pennines.

I took a few photographs looking North and East before turning to photograph Jupiter above Orion.

When I looked at the photographs a while later on the camera’s LCD screen I noticed a bit of glow on some of the photographs, which became much more noticeable when I put them on the computer at home, I had captured a bit of aurora after all

Amazing aurora timelapse

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:22:46 +0000

Don’t you just wish every now and then you could magic yourself to a different place for a while When I watched this video this morning I almost was somewhere else for a while. It’s certainly worth watching full screen. Amazing work by Terje Sorgjerd it must be said.

The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.