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You're very welcome. I'm glad you found it helpful :)

It was incredible to have aurora on two consecutive nights again!

Thank you Jeff :) I'm just relieved to have eventually finished processing the images because it was a slog!

Thanks so much Doug :)

Thanks so much Peter :) Yes this was a real labour of love, not to mention how much that 3:30am alarm call hurt because I hate early starts, but it was totally worth it in the end :D

Thanks so much Paul. The non-illuminated strip of the Moon is the bit that some people sharing fake images forgot to take into account!

Thanks so much :)

Thank you so much :)

Thank you. The 3:30am alarm call hurt a bit, but it was worth it in the end!

Alarm call pain! 😂 We thank you for it , wonderful footage, inspires me greatly

me too!!

Oh no! I'm so sorry that you didn't get to see it. We had a lot of thin cloud but I was still able to get something so I'm really happy about that

Thanks Bill. I was using a 70mm telescope which I'm pretty sure would struggle to pick up Titan under perfect conditions, but a nearly full moon was of course right next to it plus egress happened in dawn twilight which would make it impossible to detect any of Saturn's Moons. I know some people got Titan, but they shot this event through much bigger telescopes than I used. Given how much thin cloud and twilight we had I was honestly just happy to have even picked up Saturn!

Thank you so much. It was a real labour of love but I got there in the end!

Thanks Peter :)

I'm so sorry you missed it :( I do try to send out an email when we've had alerts but I know people don't always see the messages in time

Thank you :)

Sorry to hear that you wasn't able to see this :(

Chasing aurora from mid latitude is very frustrating at times! I am usually running at least one DSLR from dusk until dawn so that means I take around 3,000 photos per camera. Of those 2,850 of them have nothing in them but if a brief burst of aurora does kick off for a short time, I'll have a 150 shots with something in! Visual Perseids rates were a bit lower than our usual average this year, and I didn't get that many on my DSLR either. Thankfully our meteor cameras can capture way fainter events so we had really high rates on those cameras.

@@Spiceyspiney Hi Mary, do you make a composit image of the Perseids that you have in your images?

@@timjones6434 with my DSLR images I sometimes stack just the meteor photos in Starstax, but that doesn't align the stars so you get dotted star trails. I have never managed to get decent results stacking meteors with the stars aligned. I honestly have no idea how people do that!

Thank you :)

I didn't see any sign of STEVE. from here. We had a lot of very persistent aircraft vapour trails but I went through all of the images multiple times and they were definitely contrails and not STEVE

I have photographed aurora from Oxfordshire almost 30 times in the past 11 years - there's a whole aurora playlist on my channel. Jupiter and Mars are looking incredible at the moment aren't they?! If you're new to astronomy it may be helpful to check out the Sky at Night magazine podcast "Star Diary" You can listen everywhere you get podcasts or on the Sky at Night magazine You Tube channel. I am one of the co-hosts and new episodes drop every Sunday and it covers everything you can see in the coming week 😊

I'm so happy you found the video helpful. Good luck!

Thank you. I'm a big advocate for sketching and have taught literally hundreds of people how to sketch lots of different objects. A fair few people who have done my workshops have kept it up so that's really great to see :) Even though I do astrophotography, drawing something makes me understand it and remember it far better so it's something I just love doing

Thanks so much. I can't tell you how excited I was to have finally caught them!

Thanks so much. They are pretty incredible structures. They're so high up that some photographers have captured them from 600km away! They can be huge structures too, with some of them extending over 70km up and across. The amount of energy involved is mind blowing! I've wanted to capture sprites for years so I was super excited to have finally got those tiny little lines!

Thanks so much. I was really thrilled to have finally captured some!

Thanks Steve. The meteor cameras can really clearly see the entire Milky Way on a moonless night. Considering the fact that they're low cost CCTV cameras, they really do an amazing amount of science!

Erm, sprites over France... If you don't know what Sprites are, read my description box

Thank you ❤ The US version has a slightly different title than the UK one, that's why I have two books with different titles in my package. There aren't any names on the cover but they're inside. It was an incredible surprise to see they had put my name first 😮 😊

Thanks so much. I can't wait for people to be able to read it!

Thanks so much for your amazing support :) I hope he loves the book :D

Thank you so much. I really can't wait for people to be able to read it!

Thank you so much. I'm really happy with how the book has turned out :)

Hopefully books don't act as cloud magnets like telescopes do :)

Thank you :) Prior to this project I had only ever written chapters that were between 2,000 - 3,000 words so stepping up to almost 60,000 was a bit of a shock! I'm so glad that I stuck with it though and I love how it's looking :)

LOL! I personally have no interest in owning a smart telescope but I think the technology is amazing and it's brilliant that their ease of use it bringing the beauty of the night sky to so many people who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford the expensive imaging rigs

Thanks so much Paul :)

I've only seen a couple of displays this year from our garden because the hill behind us cuts off that crucial low down northern horizon!

Hi there, I used Stellarium the free planetarium app. In the viewing options window you can turn on Alt-At gridlines, EQ gridlines or even both if you want to. There's a load of other viewing options in there too so it's a really helpful bit of software for stuff like this

I only saw them twice last year so I'm hoping we get more than that this year! NLC activity is often lower during solar maximum because the addition UV from a more active Sun can break down what little water there is up in the mesosphere. That certainly proved to be the case last year

Thank you :)

Hi Neil, glad you are enjoying this little telescope too :) I thought I said in the video, but you need a 2x Barlow to achieve focus with a DSLR on this and every other Newtonian reflector I've ever used. The little Heritage Dob will focus no problem if you add a 2x onto the front of the t-ring that has a threaded 1.25" tube on it

Thank you very much, that's great. My skywatcher 130 and 200 both allow dSLR focus without need of a Barlow. I wanted a really wide field so this will defeat the object and be equivalent of the 130 once I x2 Barlow. Still, great whole sun results already with the heritage, showing rotation over a couple of days, £65 well spent!

@@neilbryant9833 even with the 2x the field of view is pretty decent but if you really don't want to do that, you could always get a phone adapter and take photos with your phone camera. Most modern mobile cameras are really good for simple astrophotography - I've written an article all about that will appear in the next issue of Sky at Night magazine. People are taking some really nice photos and stacking them and the results are incredible. There are free apps you can download that give you more camera control and that helps you to do longer exposures, higher ISO, etc. It's definitely worth looking at

I've been like that myself recently!

Thanks Steve. I do hope we get more this year than we saw last year!

Thanks Gordon :)