Trying out some real-time video recording of tonights #aurora display from #rousay #orkney #astro

A bright #aurora over #rousay #orkney tonight - two very active spells so far - expect more to come. #astro

The annoying thing about aurorae is when you have to shoot a comet through them. C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and the northern lights! #aurorae #orkney #rousay #astro @theorkneynews.bsky.social

Comet c/2025 A6 (Lemmon) was visible from #Rousay #Orkney this evening. A brief gap in the cloud - but the comet was easily visible in binoculars. And here is a 4 min exposure using a Seestar S50. @theorkneynews.bsky.social @astroroyalscot.bsky.social

@callump.bsky.social @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Bright Comet Set to Grace Orkney Skies theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/11/b...

A nice show of the #northernlights #aurora from #rousay #orkney on 30 Sept around 2021 to 20:28 UT

The globular cluster M56 from the other night - taken with the Seestar S50 from #Rousay #Orkney

A decent night last night - here's a milky way pano from SQM 21.6 sky, at 59N. #Rousay #Orkney

@callump.bsky.social @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Donation of a Smart Telescope will inspire "a new generation of young people to explore Orkney’s skies.” theorkneynews.scot/2025/09/03/d...

#Aurora pics from #Orkney #Rousay last night (1-2 Sept). First show of the season for me.

#Perseid #meteors last night (12-13 August) from #Rousay #Orkney recorded on the meteor cam in the early hours after the cloud cleared. Bright moon though. #RousayDarkSkies

A nice -0.13 mag Perseid last night (1 Aug, 23:20UT) 20 caught over the night #meteor #perseids #orkney #rousay

One of the best weeks in the Orkney calendar. Some fantastic events as always.

Beautiful #noctilucent clouds tonight (2025 07 29-30, 22:44 UT) from #rousay #orkney. The best of the season from here so far. #NLC

Some nice #NLC action from #Rousay #Orkney just after midnight 18/19 July. Pity about the low cloud and biting beasties. Outside temp 18C

Camera photo of the #NLC at around 01:11 BST (local midnight) on 12-13 July. Not the best display but a lovely sunset/sunrise #rousay #orkney

A pretty perfect clear sky to the north of #rousay #orkney but no noctilucents clouds to be seen (yet, hopefully...) #NLC

First noctilucent clouds #NLC of the season last night - brief show before tropo clouds got in the way. From #Rousay #Orkney

Maybe you need to be a certain age but I enjoyed Neil Young tonight

ORCA’s industrial heritage surveys at Saviskaill Bay and Saviskaill Farm, in #Rousay, are now online. #industrialheritage #NILPS #Orkney

@uhiorkney.bsky.social An exhibition of work by students from the NC Art and Design and BA Fine Art courses at Orkney College UHI Department of Art and Design is currently open to the public. Work In Progress | Work and Progress theorkneynews.scot/2025/06/08/w...

Well done @stuartwilliams.bsky.social on getting your train on #bbcr4bh today

Published in #MNRAS: "Hubble’s Variable Nebula I. Ripples on a big screen", Lightfoot & Scholz. This is Fig. 2: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

#aurora #northernlights on 09-10 May - bright moonlight interfered with this surprise show #orkney #rousay

Northern lights from April 15-16, #Rousay #Orkney - spectacular display with fascinating bands, rays, patches and blobs #aurora

The Sky Above You, April 2025 by Duncan Lunan The Moon is Full on April 12th, and New on April 27th.  It passes through the Pleiades on April 1st and 2nd, near Jupiter on the 2nd, near Mars on the 5th, and is near Venus on the 24th and 25th, back near the Pleiades on the 29th and Jupiter on the…

The partial solar eclipse from #Rousay #Orkney - cloudy with a few breaks for the first hour #PSE #seethesun

The #meteor camera picked up a nice meatier last night (08-09 March) with the bonus of the constellation of Corona Borealis being nicely centred - but no sign of #TCrB (should be in the grey box) - the wait goes on...

Another night of #aurora last night (25-26 Feb) - here is a short time lapse of the BRP (Bright Red Patch) that appeared around midnight. From #Rousay #Orkney

The northern lights from #Orkney last night (24-25 Feb). Quite a nice show and clear sky for a change. Just a couple of stills from early on.

A couple of pics from last night with the #seestar s50 - longer exposures needed really, but lots of lost frames due to the wind! The Medusa Nebula in Gemini (Abell 21) and the Leo Triplet.

A nice display of the #aurorar #northernlights last night (Feb 15-16) from #Rousay #Orkney - best of the year so far for me.

This week's BAA Picture of the Week is of "Thor's Helmet" NGC 2359 by Callum Wingrove. britastro.org/observations... which is the Deep Sky Section Object of Interest for February. #astronomy #nebulae

A mosaic of the #mars occultation on Sunday 9th Feb, frames captured from the video posted earlier. Capture by #seestar s50 time-lapse mode

The occultation of Mars was visible from #Rousay #Orkney. A timelapse using a Seestar S50. A bit wobbly sadly.

Not very good picture of the Moon setting, Saturn and Venus last night (31 Jan) - was out too late really and the Moon was disappearing under the hill. #NationalAstronomyWeek

First day in January that i've got a shot of the Sun from #Rousay #Orkney - white light using Seestar S50 #seethesun Hopefully Feb weather will be better

Public stargazing events ✅ Watch the planets live from your home ✅ Engaging astronomy talks ✅ Charts for 'Chasing the Moon' ✅ The 9th National Astronomy Week, supported by the RAS, is almost upon us! Here's Professor Chris Lintott from the BBC's The Sky at Night to tell you more...

One week until blast off! 🚀🚀🚀 National Astronomy Week 2025 will run from 1-9 February, with more than 250 events across the UK celebrating one of the best planet parades in nearly half a century. 🪐 ⤵️

On R4 Today a couple of days ago an interesting piece about chorus waves being generated further out than previously thought. It took a while to track down the paper - here it is www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This week we're looking at the Knowe of Lairo in Rousay - another enigmatic Neolithic chambered cairn that is unlike any other. But what was going on? #archaeology #Neolithic #Orkney #Rousay #chamberedtomb

Want to witness the beauty of half the planets in our solar system? Why not take part in National Astronomy Week! 🪐💫🔭 Running from 1-9 February, it will feature 250 events across the UK, including stargazing nights, planetarium shows & schoolchildren quizzing astronauts 👩‍🚀 ⤵️

Quote of the day "They never fully adopted the modern Gregorian calendar" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With the Moon nearly full (2025 01 11) there's not much else to do except take a picture of it (with the Seestar S50).

Poor weather for the #quadrantids last night (03-04 Jan) - only 9 meteors detected by the #meteor camera but 6 were quads. This was the brightest at mag -3.8! #rousay #orkney

A short timelapse of the maximum activity last night (01-02 January) from #Rousay #Orkney (missed the start due to a camera tech problem :-(

#aurora happening now on #orkney

After six months it was time to open up the DIY solar pinhole camera -so we did have some some #Sun on #Rousay #Orkney

A night of broken cloud last night (13-14 Dec) and bright Moon, but my #meteor camera managed a haul of 173 #Geminids out of 224 detections. Here are the best 4 Gem's. From #Rousay #Orkney