{"id":46,"date":"2017-05-31T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T07:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popastro.com\/main_spa1\/aurora\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2017-11-28T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T09:59:51","slug":"aurora-2-jan-2016-to-30-jun-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.popastro.com\/aurora\/aurora-2-jan-2016-to-30-jun-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora 2 Jan 2016 to 30 Jun 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aurora Jan to Jun 2016<\/p>\n

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\nA weak glow that took a 30 sec exp at 1600 ISO, but it caught the glow of a coronal hole from my croft in Glenbarry, NE\u00a0Scotland on the 11\/12 January 2016 at 2200UT. After that, it clouded over.<\/p>\n

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Alan Tough caught this display on the 17th\/18th Feb from Elgin in Morayshire.<\/p>\n

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On the night of 6th\/7th March, a coronal hole started to strike the Earth, This combined with a strong negitive field, sent auroras as far south as Oxfordshire and gave a very lively display.<\/p>\n

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This photo was taken by Alan Clitherow from his home just north of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

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This dramatic shot was taken by Alan Tough from Elgin, Morayshire on the same night.<\/p>\n

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\"aurora\"My croft in Glenbarry, NE Scotland with the aurora doing it’s dance behind the cloud.<\/p>\n

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This superb blast of green rays was taken by Ken Kennedy from his home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.<\/p>\n

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The most southerly report came from Mary Spicer in Tackley, Oxfordshire who caught these fantastic colours after staying in a frozen field till 2 in the morning.<\/p>\n

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The 7\/8 April gave a nice display from a coronal hole that was visible across most of Scotland. This is the view from my croft in Glenbarry, Banff.<\/p>\n

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Don Mathews, up from the central belt in Sutherland also caught the display while he was looking at variable stars.<\/p>\n

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\"aurora\"Alan Tough captured the same display with his fisheye lens from Elgin in Morayshire.<\/p>\n

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Alan Tough managed to capture a nice green arc, dispite the moon light and the light polution, from his home in Elgin, Morayshire on the 16\/17 April.<\/p>\n

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A weak green arc, the result of a coronal hole, taken from my croft in Glenbarry, N E Scotland<\/p>\n

on the 2\/3 May 2016<\/p>\n

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A green glow behind the usual clouds was all I got on the 8\/9 May 2016<\/p>\n

from my croft in Glenbarry, N E Scotland when a strong coronal hole struck.<\/p>\n

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It was still going on the 9\/10 May but much weaker, and the sky up here is getting very light at night, so the aurora season is almost at an end for us northerners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aurora Jan to Jun 2016 A weak glow that took a 30 sec exp at 1600 ISO, but it caught the glow of a coronal hole from my croft in Glenbarry, NE\u00a0Scotland on the 11\/12 January 2016 at 2200UT. AfterRead more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t