At the meeting of the Lothians Radio Society on Wednesday February 8th Dr. David Gavine talked on “Aurora Explained” – how it is caused by disturbances on the Sun, what it looks like & how it was “explained” in the past, with plenty of illustrations.
Dr Gavine is retired from teaching astro-navigation and meteorology at Leith Nautical College (where Colin Wright GM4HWO was one of his students!) then maths at Jewel & Esk College. He is a Past-President of the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh, former Director of the Aurora Section of the British Astronomical Association, and an amateur astronomer.
Full report and photographs by Peter Dick GM4DTH in Meeting Reports.