Aurora 11/12th March 2011

This is the best Aurora display I have seen since 2003, brilliantly bright dancing rays from the horizon through Cassiopeia and in to Perseus. WONDERFULL

A big thank you to my daughter Heather for helping with these photos and keeping me company tonight.

Aurora 01st March 2011

These photos of the Aurora were taken for Spey bay looking over the Moray Firth between 22:45 to 00:10
Can you see the eye in the sky?

Aurora 2nd/3rd May 2010

The Aurora started to show soon after Sunset, which at 57 Deg N is not untill after 22:30 this time of the year.

The Northern Lights from Spey bay. The red lights in the distance are oil rigs in the Moray Firth by the way.

My daughter Heather enjoys the Aurora at 00:15 this morning. She was a little tired today!!!

The second Aurora within a month, this one was not as strong visualy as the last but the camera picked it up nicely.

Aurora 12th April 2010

These images of the Aurora were taken from Spey Bay on the Moray Firth coast at 00:30 on Monday 12th April 2010.

Aurora and Meteor,I can't beleive I was so luck to catch a sporadic meteor within the heart of the Norther Lights

Jodrell Bank Observatory's Meteor Detector

Jodrell Bank Observatory's Meteor Detector

Jorell Bank Observatory, The Lovell Radio Telescope

Jodrell Bank Observatory's Meteor Detector

Live webcast

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-night-sky

The Moon

Images of the partial Lunar eclipse on the 16th August 2008. All 5 second exposures @ 800 iso taken A focally through my LXD 55 10" with a Canon ESO 300D.

This is my first attempt at photographing the Moon with my new Cannon 300D digital SLR.
Technical Details - Raw image processed in photoshop, Lens 55mm, iso 800, 5.6 Av, Shutter speed 1/500


This image is a mozaic of 17 avi's made on the night of April 16th 2008 and processed in Registax and Photoshop.


To see the video I made from the photos I took that night go to-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88pDN73NO4E




The conjunction of Saturn and the moon in February 2007




The full moon