Aurora

[saturn5]

Not a spectacular one but an aurora nonetheless.

The red glow to the right is the gas flare from the Flotta oil terminal and Dunnet Head lighthouse is extreme right.

Vega is the star left of center.

1x30sec at iso 800

[algol]

well ain't that just perdy so where bouts was that taken from?

[Naz]

The wonderful views over the Pentland Firth

Saturn5 you now have the responsibility of being the Northern Lights Correspondant

I remember those wonderful displays, maybe when the Sun wakes up again I might get the odd one here.

Lovely capture.

naz

[saturn5]

Algol,it was taken for the shore at Thurso looking across to Orkney.

Thanks Naz,no dancing beams of light but it is nice to see something,there have been so few lately,but hopefully as you say,when the sun wakes up we'll get some spectacular ones,i do miss them and when they do occur i can quite happily sit back and watch them for hours. :colors:

[jgs001]

Nice catch s5. I'd really like to get to see this.

[saturn5]

When the sun is a bit more active aurora are really very common up here,this one ,being that its just a glow,i would assume that it was well north of the arctic circle.

Also didn't have that dancing beams of light or search light effect which is quite stunning.It was also quite faint and had to take a 30sec exposure to make the aurora stand out,15-20 sec would do for a bright display.

Got an Email alert from http://www.spaceweather.com/ incidating a good chance of aurora displays tonight.

[jgs001]

Good luck for tonight

[Sam]

Cool - I'd love to see aurora one day! That a neat shot and the colours are fantastic!

[SteelRat]

That's dead nice lookin 8)

[MartinB]

Great photo. I would love to see the aurora