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On reaching the end of July the night skies are getting very noticeably darker here at 59N. We’ve had few

Now that we are past the summer solstice, the nights are noticeably getting darker. Although we did not have a

It’s amazing how light the ‘night’ sky is up here at 59 degrees north currently. And also how quickly the

Sorry for another late update, but we are just past Full Moon so there won’t have been much in the

March was not terribly good for observing for me – though I did see aurorae on two nights, one of

February has been a strange month up here in Orkney – we went from 80 mph winds to windless conditions,

Well, the first few weeks of January have not been the best weather in Orkney. Although there have been a

Well I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Good New Year. The weather here was not particularly kind