Thanks Chris - was great to see you in person, and glad you enjoyed the day

Two clips of some remarkable pulsing from last nights #aurora, from #rousay #orkney. This is real-time video, with a bit of enhancement in iMovie. #astro

Amazing to see up close the 12th C red sandstone face discovered at the Skaill Farm Rousay dig last year. Many thanks to @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social for bringing it across, and great update on the dig from Dan Lee, Julia Cussans and Clea Faine.

A clip of last nights #aurora from #rousay #orkney recorded by my aurora-cam #astro

The solar disk with a few sunspots visible

First solar disk image of 2026 for me from Orkney yesterday (Feb 28) - white light using Seestar S50. #astroThesolar

Green aurora glow bottom left

Green aurora at left

There have been signs of #aurora from #Orkney the last couple of nights, but low cloud to the north has obscured the view #astro #rousay

Timelaspe from the aurora-cam looking north on 2026 01 19-20
Fantastic display which rather overloaded the camera at some points. And even when most of the aurora had gone south there was still things going on to the north #rousay #orkney #astro
#aurora #northernlights

A collection of photos of the aurora 202601_19-20 from around 20:30 tom 22:00 UT. A magnificent display with green and red clearly visible to the naked eye. Travelled all the way south over Orion and Sirius, and a nice corona in Auriga
#rousay #orkney #astro

Some live video of the #northernlights from #rousay #orkney tonight (20260110) #astro

Splendid brief spell of the #northernlights from #rousay #orkney tonight (20260110) #astro

On space weather today - no kidding - "drawing not to scale" !

Another snow day #rousay #orkney

My first 'proper' job was at Harwell - Instruments and Applied Physics, B148, B347 (.3 maybe...)

Wind turbine generation 2024 and 2025 compared #rousay #orkney

A little breezy new years day, and time to see how the wind turbine did this year. About 17.8 MWHr's generated in 2025, so a bit down on 2024 (20.1 MWHr). Windiest month was March (1.9 MWHr)

What settings do you use?
On my A7S I use 1/25s, f/2.8 21mm lens, ISO 128,000 but 'amp glow' is annoying, but I read that the A7S II amp glow is no better at high iso?

Did everyone watch it last night?

Comet 3i ATLAS from #Rousay #Orkney on 20251216 at 01:22UT
Picture taken with Seestar S50, 10 min
Still looks like a #comet #interstellarcomet #astro

A nice #Gemind from last night on #Rousay #Orkney. #astro

Last nights (12-13 Dec) meteor cam recorded 320 #geminids from #rousay #orkney Most Geminids were short and not too bright. Here's the whole night stack, radiants plot and a brighter meteor. #astro

A nice #geminid meteor heading to the Pleiades spotted by my meteor cam last night. #rousay #orkney #astro

I’ve switched it off - I expect the draw groups will be online somewhere later

Really cringey

Timelapse of last nights aurora #orkney #rousay #aurora 2/2

A nice aurora last night (03-04 Dec) - massive geomagnetic shock, then over the zenith green arcs and rays. Plot and pics
Timelapse to follow 1/2

The Sun from #rousay #orkney this lunchtime. A brief chance at low elevation. A chance to catch the new sunspot group. Seestar S50 & Baader astro-solar film filter #astro

Or vice-versa...

Last nights (Nov 18-29) meteor stack - mostly sporadic - brightest is mag -2.3 #rousay #orkney #astro

WW2 UXB 😀

Delighted and amazed to be included in space.com's list of 10 things to go stargazing this winter