by Kerrie Ann Gardner | May 16, 2024 | Astronomy, Folklore, Landscape, Nature, Photography
Silence falls as the sky contorts. Above my head, enormous beams reach upwards, stretching miles and miles. They are blue, and red, and pink, the reds and pinks so bright that I do not need my camera to see them. I do not need anything, because I’m floating. I’ve...
by Kerrie Ann Gardner | Apr 27, 2023 | Astronomy, Nature, Photography, Weather
(The title of this piece has been borrowed from Arthur C. Clarke.) Writing when sleep deprived is not the best of ideas, but I’m fired up from the events of last night (23rd-24th April, 2023). All the reports suggested an intense CME (coronal mass ejection – a...
by Kerrie Ann Gardner | Mar 26, 2023 | Astronomy, Nature, Photography
Having seen the Aurora Borealis from the Devon-Dorset border last month, it seems almost impossible that I’ve seen it from Devon again. Yet, on the 23rd – 24th of March 2023, the Earth was struck by a geomagnetic storm so strong it caused bright aurorae to...
by Kerrie Ann Gardner | Mar 5, 2023 | Astronomy, Nature, Photography, Travel
For years now, I have diligently taken myself out when there’s a chance of seeing the Aurora Borealis to stand beneath the night sky, only to get cold, tired and ultimately, give up and go home to bed. It’s the trouble with living down south. The aurora seldom reaches...
