Flaming Lights On The Sky

Flaming lights on the sky
a night of northern lights
A wedding is going on up there
among the crowd of stars
The Moon is rising
a god among sparkling goddesses.

The aurora was named after the Roman goddess of dawn by a 17th Century scientist named Pierre Gassend. It was long thought to be produced by sunlight reflected from polar snow and ice, or refracted light much like rainbows. Benjamin Franklin, Aristotle, Descartes, Edmund Halley, Goethe, and Henry Cavendish have all been fascinated by their array in the night sky, and have all written papers about them.

The simplest explanation for the Northern Lights is that, just as the gas in a Neon light glows when charged with electricity, so the gas in the atmosphere glows with specific colors when charged with electric particles from the sun.

A BUSY day!
CPD course in Stirling, collected boys from school, fed them, picked up their wee sister, dropped them for their first night of their show then beetled off for Parents Evening.

Got home, discovered an aurora alert, waited impatiently for boys to come home from show, bundled them in car, picked up a neighbour and headed up a hill....

Was all worth it!