Aurora October 08/09 2012

 The Northern Lights mad a spectacular return to our sky  on the night of  08/09 October. All these photos were taken between 19:45 and 22:30 at which point the clouds moved in and and it was time for me to get the kids home for bed. Please scroll down the images and take note of the one taken by my daughter Heather Sherman, it was her first attempt at photographing the Aurora, and I hate to say I think hers are better than mine.

 NOTE ALL TIMES ARE IN BST

 20:18

 21:10

20:40

20:42

20:47

All of the following images we taken by Heather Sherman (age 14)
20:51 

20:53

 21:02

21:13

21:17

21:25

21:40

21:43

As a final treat Heather imaged this Draconid meteor within the Aurora, what a night!

Manmade objects

The International Space Station as it passed over my house and observatory on April 17th 2012.

 

The ISS pass over Jupiter on July 24th 2008



A planes contrail reflecting Moon light.

The ISS (International Space Station)

Aurora March 15/16th 2012

This is the first of many of tonights photos of The Northern Lights, I took this at 21:00 on March 15th looking NW over the Moray Firth.
Jupiter and Venus are on the left above Garmouth and the Aurora is over Lossiemouth.

 

Not going to comment on all these photos as I think they speak for themselves.

This was Photo number 100, the last one. Will fill in the gap tomorrow need sleep now got to go to work in 7 1/2 hours!

22deg Moon halo from Conon Bridge on 01 Feb 2012 #bbcstargazing

22deg Moon halo from Conon Bridge on 01 Feb 2012 #bbcstargazing: 22deg Moon halo from Conon Bridge on 01 Feb 2012 #bbcstargazing

Moon Halo 1st Feb 2012 20:30

A fantastic Halo appeared around the Moon tonight, so large (appox 50' in diameter') I had to stitch together three photos to ensure I got it all.

This is the stitched Photo Jupiter is just to the lower right at the edge of the halo.

and this is a single shot as you can see the hole halo will not fit into a single frame of my 58mm lens.