{"id":22822,"date":"2026-10-10T20:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22822"},"modified":"2026-10-11T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:09:52","slug":"sight-of-the-night-the-northern-lights-over-potternewton-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22822","title":{"rendered":"Sight of the Night: the Northern Lights over Potternewton Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something we don&#8217;t see very often (actually we don&#8217;t see it all, but our phones can): the Aurora Borealis.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22824\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/aurora1PXL_20261010_1850558.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/aurora1PXL_20261010_1850558.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/aurora1PXL_20261010_1850558-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/> And here it is again, with a small amount of structure.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22823\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/aurora2PXL_20261010_1852588.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/aurora2PXL_20261010_1852588.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/aurora2PXL_20261010_1852588-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>The telephone wires look messy because the wind was blowing. This display was seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9rkyey458xdo\">throughout the UK<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd later, the Dwarf Mini had an outing to observe Mars passing through Praesepe, or the colourful Beehive Cluster, in the constellation Cancer. Mars is the brightest object here, slightly elongated due to its movement through the 1-hour exposure at 5am. The Mini isn&#8217;t powerful enough to image Mars as a disc, but it makes a pretty photo.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22830\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MarsPraesepeS50-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MarsPraesepeS50-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MarsPraesepeS50-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MarsPraesepeS50-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MarsPraesepeS50-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MarsPraesepeS50.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something we don&#8217;t see very often (actually we don&#8217;t see it all, but our phones can): the Aurora Borealis. And here it is again, with a small amount of structure.The telephone wires look messy because the wind was blowing. This display was seen throughout the UK. And later, the Dwarf Mini had an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22822\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sight of the Night: the Northern Lights over Potternewton Heights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,18,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22822"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22831,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22822\/revisions\/22831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}