Aurora

Although there's technology now to help, seeing an aurora is still 90% luck, around here controlled largely by the chances of clear skies. Last night I was lucky, remembering to check the Aurorawatch site, seeing, at 10.30, that there was an event in progress, and then finding the sky brilliantly clear. Sadly, although the aurora in Shetland reached an amber level....

....here is was very low, so all I could see was a faint greenish glow along the northern horizon. At least I had a good view of the Big Dipper, seen in this picture high above the aurora.

Never mind, there's a red warning for tonight but.... it's forecast to be raining here.