The Merry Dancers

[saturn5]

What the aurora are called up here,especially when the beams of light start dancing across the sky like they did on this shot.

[Psychobilly]

Keeping the best til last Stewart ?

Amazing...

[lukebl]

Absolutely stunning. Wish we had them here down south.

[saturn5]

Keeping the best til last Stewart ?

Amazing...

I only got through about half of the shots this morning before i was almost falling asleep at the comp so now i'm up bright and early:evil6: i've had a look through the rest.

There realy was a lot of purple in the aurora's last night and the moon gave the sky a nice hint of blue as well.

[Psychobilly]

I'd have a word with the boss that "shed" has got to go ....

[MrsR]

OMG that photo is STUNNING

[JonH]

Beautiful colours in there Stewart, yet another stunner.

[brantuk]

Amazing - beautifull capture Stewart

[Mark at Beaufort]

Amazing photos Stewart. Especially like both the stars and the colourful aurora all in the same shot. Fantastic.

Mark

[Naz]

Stewart, you are making me envious with all the suberb images you are showing us, not much chance of seeing the aurora this far south.

Archie

[angusb1]

I've never seen the purple in the aurora before. Amazing!

[steppenwolf]

Absolutely wonderful Stewart!

[wolfgang.f]

What a beautiful picture... absolutely stunning. Thanks! :-)

W.

[saturn5]

Stewart, you are making me envious with all the suberb images you are showing us, not much chance of seeing the aurora this far south.

Archie

Hope it brings back fond memories of the auroras from your time in Orkney.

I've never seen the purple in the aurora before. Amazing!

The last couple of displays have had realy strong purple/reds.

[SkyJamie]

Thats really beautiful Stewart, awesome.

All the best

Jamie

[Naz]

Hope it brings back fond memories of the auroras from your time in Orkney.

Only one word --------------------------- yes!

[LukeSkywatcher]

Any nice houses for sale up that way?

[darkside]

stunning photo, love the colors

[Beyond_Vision]

Amazing image Stewart the colours are spectacular, that must having been an amazing sight thanks for sharing it with us

Regards

Kevin

[MikeWilson]

Beautiful! The aurora is one thing I really want to see before I die.

[carastro]

Fantastic image and lucky you being able to see them. What settings/length of subs etc did you use. I'm asking because I'm going to Iceland next year hoping to see them.

Carole

[saturn5]

Fantastic image and lucky you being able to see them. What settings/length of subs etc did you use. I'm asking because I'm going to Iceland next year hoping to see them.

Carole

This was a 25 second exposure, f4 and ISO 1600,17-40 lens @17mm,however,the displays will be much brighter further north so you could probably get away with 10 to 15 seconds,it realy does depend on the strength of the display.

[li'l john]

I wish we had them down south as well. Beautiful picture.

[Sparrow]

Simply beautiful.

Here in Chester I've only ever seen a hint of them and that was several years ago.

[msinclairinork]

Brilliant!!!

Well done!

Michael