Hogmanay Light Show 2015

On the 31st December 2015 I experienced a very memorable passage from one calendar year to the next.

The sky was clear over my home town of Thurso in Caithness that night, and the aurora had been clearly visible but somewhat subdued on the northern horizon for most of the evening. The beginning of a new calendar year is often started with spectacular fireworks displays and celebrations across the world, but this new year there was a special treat for skywatchers in the north of Scotland as t...