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Shetland Sky: April 2015

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Sunday, 12 April 2015. Continuing on from last blog this map clearly shows how much light pollution could be seen either side of Sheffield. Spring ad Summer can be frustrating times for the astrophotographer with little dark time this side of midnight. Shetland has virtually 21 hours of day light with the other 3 hours classed as simmer dim when it never gets truly dark. Shetland Storm Force photography. Darker skies mean that you can see more stars especially when the moon is not showing. There are few ...

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Shetland Sky: March 2015

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Sunday, 29 March 2015. Following the superb eclipse i decided to have a go at taking a few photos of the sun using the solar filter and the 500 mm sigma lens. On Tuesday 24 March 2015, conditions looked good with little wind and excellent viewing conditions. The sun spots can be gigantic either stretching 10 miles or 100,000 miles across. Sometimes sunspot are connected to solar flares which are linked to aurora activity.The sun goes through an 11 year cycle with increasing numbers of sunspots at...The P...

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Shetland Sky: August 2015

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Sunday, 9 August 2015. Shetland Hints and Tips. What can be seen in the Shetland Night sky- well nothing at present as it is too light. Harry Rose recently gave a very interesting talk, in which he indicated that providing you are not near a light polluted area you can actually see a lot in the Shetland night sky. He showed the benefits of using binoculars either 8x40 which has a wide view or very high powered but tripod mounted version. Harry explained everything in terms that everyone could understand,...

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Shetland Sky: October 2014

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Friday, 31 October 2014. Lights in the sky. If you believe every weather forecast you would never get out. For the last two days it has forecast overcast nights with showers but when i looked out it was completely clear with the stars shining brightly. In addition to the weather the moon was only a sliver and the cloud that was about, dimmed the moon light. While I set up i could see a pocket of cloud drifting in but as luck would have it it moved west and missed Sandwick. Connecting up the new kit i sli...

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Shetland Sky: Too Light

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Sunday, 12 April 2015. Continuing on from last blog this map clearly shows how much light pollution could be seen either side of Sheffield. Spring ad Summer can be frustrating times for the astrophotographer with little dark time this side of midnight. Shetland has virtually 21 hours of day light with the other 3 hours classed as simmer dim when it never gets truly dark. Shetland Storm Force photography. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Shetland Storm Force photography. View my complete profile. After...

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Shetland Sky: December 2014

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Sunday, 28 December 2014. Even before the `Christmas Star' people have been looking to the skies, and the interest has become even greater since the arrival of digital photography. On Christmas eve I finally managed to capture some photos of the International Space Station. Bang on time, 5.20 pm it came over Sandwick very low heading towards to the moon from west to east. In Shetland it was a lot lower than down in England. Estimated kp readings have been at 4-6 which means the the Aurora had been visibl...

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Shetland Sky: June 2015

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Sunday, 28 June 2015. The other night I was speaking to a friend in Sheffield who had not noticed the stars until he went camping to Galloway forest Park Scotland early in the year. He said he just stood looking up at the stars for hours he was just amazed with what he could see, but since getting back to Sheffield he has started to miss these really dark skies. During WW2 areas had to be dark otherwise they could be bombed, people managed although some people did die as a result of being knocked down et...

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Shetland Sky: July 2015

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Sunday, 5 July 2015. All about the universe in 55 mins. Last week I invited Mike Breimann down from Mossbank to Lerwick to give a talk on how the Universe was formed. This was aimed at some elderly folk with very little knowledge of Astronomy. Mike, his wife Anna and friend Reg managed to fit the talk into a 55 min slot, not an easy job considering the type of information that needed to be delivered. Do take a look at his website at www.macastrofix.info. Shetland Storm Force photography. Submitted by: Ar...

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Shetland Sky: Missing stars

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Sunday, 28 June 2015. The other night I was speaking to a friend in Sheffield who had not noticed the stars until he went camping to Galloway forest Park Scotland early in the year. He said he just stood looking up at the stars for hours he was just amazed with what he could see, but since getting back to Sheffield he has started to miss these really dark skies. During WW2 areas had to be dark otherwise they could be bombed, people managed although some people did die as a result of being knocked down et...