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Very lucky to have experienced another stunning Aurora display this year. This time I decided to head to The One-Mile Telescope. When I arrived at around 8pm, the Aurora was present and I could see some red by eye, but it calmed down fairly quickly. It was at around 9:30-10pm it kicked off again then died down around 11pm. I left when it died down the second time thinking that was it, but by the time I got home around midnight it kicked off again and the whole sky in my back garden in Hertfordshire was red, it shined through all the light pollution. Here are some of my favorite images from the night.

I've recently discovered the 'Solarcan' and I've depolyed 9 home made cans, 4 on my house and 5 out and about at different locations. Those 9 cans will be out until January next year. I decided to depoly two short term cans while away in Norfolk this week, the two cans were left out for 5 days tracking the sun's path. This image is my favourite of the two and was placed on my parents house facing East towards Gorleston-on-Sea Lighthouse.

Awesome! 👍

Thank you, yeah it was just beautiful, very lucky to have witnessed it. I was using my Fuji XT-2 and the Fuji 16-55mm f2.8 lens.

Thanks Paul. Sadly parts of Norfolk did fog up, mostly over on the North East, my parents mist it because of the fog, they drove around for an hour trying to find a clear patch. I was considering two locations, Happisburgh light house over on the East coast and Cley wind mill, I'm thankful for chosing Cley!

Stunning!

I'm still speechless after last nights Aurora display. I had been reading the hype all day so decided to risk heading up to north Norfolk to hopefully capture it. I was running late due to some annoying road works and was about 45 minutes away from my destination when I noticed the display out the car window. I pulled over next to a field and as soon as I pointed the camera in the direction of the pillars that I noticed, the camera just lit up. I spent a couple of hours in the field before then heading to Cley windmill, my original destination. The display was still on going when I got to the windmill so spent about an hour there enjoying the show, I could see the pillars and the red, pink and green colours by eye, absolutely amazing!

Not really, due to where I was its just to light polluted but further north such as Norfolk it was apparently.

Pitstone Windmill tonight. I have missed so many chances and some great displays this year so it was great to finally capture it tonight. I nearly didn't head out and was about to pack up after not seeing much when I got there but then it kicked off a little.

Cheers mate. Yeah a lovely holiday thanks, I cant get enough of Cornwall, such a stunning place. Shame you cant get down there this year, we might be having a year out ourselves next year, or it might pull us back again!

Back down to Cornwall again this year for another week away with my family. Although I made the decision to sell most of my DSO astrophotography gear, I still have every intention of capturing the Milkyway as and when I can. I decided on Kenidjack Valley as my main location this year and the foreground was shot on Friday just gone at approx 10:30pm and is a single 30sec, 800 iso, f4 capture. Now the Milkyway, although the weather was great for the week, the clouds did not play ball, I nearly had a chance on the Friday but the clouds just would not shift. So with that said, I have used last years Cornwall Milkyway data in this image which would be exactly how it would be anyway even if I had got more data this year. I hope to try again next year.

Thanks guys, ive tried two power supplies that used to work but now dont, i dont have any others to try at the moment. I will keep looking into it.

It was supplied with the power supply i was using, theres no power what so ever, nothing on the led. Its coming back to me so i will see if i can power it up. Its incredibly frustrating and concering feeling that now I may now have potentially just lost alot of money which i cant afford to lose if I cant get it to work.

Has anyone had an issue with a Daystar Quark powering up? I had no issues before selling mine on, but the new owner is saying it's not powering up with the same power supply, no orange light. Any idea's what could be the issue?

If you decide on the 224mc, I have one currently for sale in great condition if you wont to save a few quid. I used it for planetary, mostly on Mars and with an 8" 1000fl scope and a x2 barlow. I too just wanted to dabble and was really pleased with the results for a planetary beginner! I'm just up the road from you aswell.