Sunday 20th December

[Montana]

Finally some sunshine at long last, a month in the dark and I was awoken to light Unfortunately I had to go to church and when I got back it was cloudy So I set up anyway and after lunch the Sun popped out from the clouds and I had a 30 minute gap. Seeing was terrible out the window but I managed a jet transit too All taken with the CaK PST and DS Halpha PST and  DMK41.

2015-12-20 Full discs f colour by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

2015-12-20 plane by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

2015-12-20-plane-transit by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

I also received an aurorawatch alert too, so we went out to the cow field to see if I could see anything, again the clouds were plaguing me but they did eventually part low enough to the horizon to show some green on a 15 second exposure. Pity about the clouds illuminating the Manchester pollution. However this is the first time I have captured a solar storm from home

Aurora!! 20th December 2015 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

Aurora!! 20th December 2015 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

What a great day, amazing what you can see when there are no clouds for a moment

Alexandra

[xtreemchaos]

great set Alexandra,lovely colour and detail,i like the jet,its allways a bonus to catch one. thanks for sharing charl.  

[David Smith]

Beautiful.

[DrRobin]

Nice set, but getting the aurora as well is just rubbing it in.

I saw one was on but it was heavy rain at my house last night.

Robin

[baggywrinkle]

Very nice, love the jet transit...

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Really nice set of images! I managed to see the sun today, but no luck imaging, alas.

[Pig]

Lovely images young lady.... the combination of the colours, the stars and the sunset is breathtakingly beautiful

[laudropb]

Nice solar disks and lovely photos. I can just make out the green auroral light. Rained here all last night so no chance of a view.

[Davey-T]

So nice to see some excellent Solar pic's Alexandra, weathers been taking the proverbial here, got up at 5.30 to try and catch Catalina and was greeted by a clear sky with a thick cloud bank to the east which miraculously disappeared as the Sun rose promising a nice day only for it to start teeing down as it rose high enough to image, been raining ever since 

Dave

[Pete Presland]

Superb set of images it was nice to have a little sun for a change. The aurora was visible in places as far south as Bedfordshire on Sunday evening.

[Montana]

Thanks folks for the kind words :)

Pig - not a sunset sorry, it is what Manchester light pollution does to a 15 second exposure

Alexandra

[Pig]

Thanks folks for the kind words :)

Pig - not a sunset sorry, it is what Manchester light pollution does to a 15 second exposure

Alexandra

LoL.... what a pity, but hey Manchester is one of my favourite places to visit

[Drop Of Sun]

Lovely images! Not much sun here of late, it was clear when the aurora alert was on but I couldn't see anything that didn't look like light pollution! (no sunset though!). I was lucky to see one at the Kelling Heath star party some years back, but that is darker than here so Sol will have to really put on a show I think for it to show up from our garden!

[philj]

A lovely set Alexandra, I like the plane especially, seen quite a few like this since getting the Lunt, plus birds flying across the image, but Ive never managed to catch one with the camera yet.

[Stardust]

Great set despite the seeing and like the jet and Aurora too. It's not going to be good for us now with the sun skimming the rooftops