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Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights displays photographed taken over Aberdeeshire in Scotland since 1989 covering some 350 events with arc, rays, coronas with a wide rnage of shapes and colours
Comet Hyakutake au9667jhp Comet Hyakutake April Aurora display 1996 spring Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland taken on the evening of the 14th April 1996 at Crooktree, 25 miles west of Aberdeen looking to north. This photo was taken at 23.55BSThrs between Kincardine O’Neil and Torphins on Deeside with Cassiopeia sitting off to the right quarter a spring marker for the northern sky. The Comet is to the left of bottom centre with its tail by the first twig and to the right above is the distinct purple hue of a nitrogen gas Aurora display. I started photographing the Comet on the 24th and finished 17th April when I was able to include two Aurora displays. This photo was scanned from a 35mm colour slide film, Fuji RSP processed for a 1600asa rating using a Nikon FM2, 28mm f2.8 lens wide open at around 20 seconds. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal Deeside, Deeside, Torphins, Kincardine O’Neil, north, Comet, Hyakutake, Aurora Borealis, Aurora, Borealis, display, Torphins, Arc, Northern Lights, Merry Dancers, Cassiopeia, Plough, Ursa Major, Big Dipper, 1996, April, spring, landscape, photos, photographs, tail, green, bluish, sunspots, solar, flares, CME, electrons, photons, storms, energy, sun, stars, oxygen, gas, nitrogen, purple, blue, Van Allen, belt, ionosphere, flares, space, molecules, magnetic, disturbance, magnetometers, belts, radiation, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, colours, colors, celestial, clouds, nature, dark, nights, night-time, 35mm, slide, scanned, Fuji, RSP, RSP-412, exposed, time, long, Nikon, FM2, 28mm
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Aurora over Scotland
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Comet Hyakutake April Aurora display 1996 spring Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland

taken on the evening of the 14th April 1996 at Crooktree, 25 miles west of Aberdeen looking to north. This photo was taken at 23.55BSThrs between Kincardine O’Neil and Torphins on Deeside with Cassiopeia sitting off to the right quarter a spring marker for the northern sky. The Comet is to the left of bottom centre with its tail by the first twig and to the right above is the distinct purple hue of a nitrogen gas Aurora display. I started photographing the Comet on the 24th and finished 17th April when I was able to include two Aurora displays. This photo was scanned from a 35mm colour slide film, Fuji RSP processed for a 1600asa rating using a Nikon FM2, 28mm f2.8 lens wide open at around 20 seconds.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal Deeside, Deeside, Torphins, Kincardine O’Neil, north, Comet, Hyakutake, Aurora Borealis, Aurora, Borealis, display, Torphins, Arc, Northern Lights, Merry Dancers, Cassiopeia, Plough, Ursa Major, Big Dipper, 1996, April, spring, landscape, photos, photographs, tail, green, bluish, sunspots, solar, flares, CME, electrons, photons, storms, energy, sun, stars, oxygen, gas, nitrogen, purple, blue, Van Allen, belt, ionosphere, flares, space, molecules, magnetic, disturbance, magnetometers, belts, radiation, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, colours, colors, celestial, clouds, nature, dark, nights, night-time, 35mm, slide, scanned, Fuji, RSP, RSP-412, exposed, time, long, Nikon, FM2, 28mm