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Aliens are coming :-O This aurora looks like a flying saucer :-D

It's amazing, isn't it? Apparently this is the strongest geomagnetic storm since 2003.

Beautiful arch and now you can also see the green, meaning that it's moving southwards. It's green below and red on the top, so if you are far away, ypu only see the red because of the curvature of the Earth.

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Aurora now over Triglav in Julian Alps in Slovenia www.skiresort.info/ski-resort/v...

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New paper! My PhD student Ali Moayedi explored how geese use geomagnetic, wind, and solar cues to navigate & revealed flexible multi-sensory strategies in real conditions. With @jedalong.bsky.social, @fbenitez.bsky.social, Andrea Koelzsch and Helmut Kruckenberg. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

All the puffins on the Isle of May today. So many puffins -apparently there are 52000 breeding pairs on this small island!

Five puffins on the rocks with the sea in the background, and Bass rock in the distance

Puffin with sandeels in the beak on the clifftop over the sea, with many other puffins in the background

Several puffins on the top of the cliff, with two incoming ones, about to land. One puffins has a beak full of sandeels.

Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

#FensterFreitag is a thing on Mastodon, but I think we should start it here too. Every Friday post a photo of a window or windows or a view/things you see through a window. Chester cathedral, south transept window, March 2025 #WindowFriday #Photography

Sunlight streaming through a colourful gothic window in a chirch

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Quote-skeet with a picture you took in a National Park.

And I think this arc that goes through Orion is a SAR arc, is it, @vincentledvina.bsky.social? This was to the south, while the main aurora was to the north. It persisted for at least 30 min after the main aurora faded. I've never seen one of these before, so no idea if I am right?

Aurora in St Andrews this evening for a great start to 2025. 🤩

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Yes, it's happening. This in St Andrews, Scotland.

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Happy New Year 2025 with fireworks in the storm.

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Here's a better one, with Piran, Slovenia, in the background on the left, taken in summer 2019. #LetsPlayPhotoSnap

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Ok, I will play, although I don't really have many sailing boat photos. Here are some in Elie harbour this summer. #LetsPlayPhotoSnap

A row of sailing boats and some smaller boats moored in a wide harbour.

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from St Andrews this evening

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

It's visible down south to the Alps though, here are screenshots from webcams in Dolomiti in Italy and Grossglockner in Austria just now. Very PINK! www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/glock...

Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Here it is in St Andrews. Very big, stretching to and over the zenith, but not very bright, only visible as pinkish and white haze.

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Aurora in St Andrews, as green and pink slow arch, but colours only visible to the camera. To the eye it looked like white mist. #aurora

Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Amazing #aurora, first in the south, then as an umbrella and a corona overhead. Green, pink, purple and blue colours visible to the naked eye. St Andrews, Scotland, 56N. Photos don't capture not even a little part of this, the sky has erupted and you feel so small under the amazing light courtains.

Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Since everyone is doing this, here is my Google Scholar wordcloud. Pretty spot on, but slighltly skewed by one collaborator's work 🤣. You can make yours here: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...